102-14. Our Blogging Queen
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
15. Essay Exam
The essay exam was held in today and I'm feeling relax now. Writing with pen was a bit different especially in the exam. However, it was a nice experience but I need to admit that my paper was look like a mess. A peace of s-ht I can say:) but I hope not in value...Anyways I'm glad that left all of them behind. I'm gonna miss my 101 class but not Sonja because I'll do my best to choose her again but you know add-drops are so complicated. Who knows what'll happen... Begüm Bener presents proudly from his last blog of this semester.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
14. Practise Essay
Compare and contrast how women and men are "marked" in the text marked women and killing us softly.
As women and men are biologically differing from each other, they also have some differences as an image in advertisements and in their social life. In this essay the topic will be discussed by referring “killing us softly (Katz) and “marked woman” (Tannen).
For some people women have an advantage because they are weak, vulnerable. And it is thought to be that they get help from the others and get protected so they have superiority because there is no one to give a hand to men. Actually it is not that simple and the usual case which applies for women in real life is not such that. As (Tennan) discussed in marked women, women are the one who usually categorized by some reasons. Even she found herself categorizing the women in a conference unconsciously. Because men have standard clothes and hair cut whereas women have a lot more details which give clues about them. When we try to reverse the situation and make the women to be simple clothed as men, the categorization will still be there. This time the women will be “marked” as not caring about how she looks. In that case women have no freedom to be unmarked whereas men can choose not to be marked by just being an ordinary man. Tannen stresses that women don’t even have a change to fill out a form by not giving clue about themselves because of the differences between Miss and Mrs. In contrast men have only Mr. which is the same for a married and a single man. On the other hand men are also marked and that is their chromosomes XY. Two X makes a female but two Y makes nothing unless it is attached to a single X chromosomes. But it is obvious that this is not a visual thing that strictly classifies men and women as the Miss and Mrs. and this is not the same thing where the women are victim. Also there is a “marked-unmarked” situation in surnames. Women mostly have their husbands name and it shows that a woman has traditional values. If she chooses to keep her surname as well as her husbands than it makes an impression that she should have done something important when she has her family name.
Quiet the same thing applies in media where the producers try to sell their products by the help of effective advertisements in which women’s body are used as an object. Being an object in ads. rather than a subject brings a concept of women’s place in the society which is shaped by the mass media. When the mass media and its one the most important tool advertisements show an image of beautiful, silent, passive women which affects the women’s self esteem in a negative way. Because according to ads. women need to be painfully thin as models and if they are not than they do not have a right to be happy, successful, rich etc. In the same way according to (Kilbourne) the men should be though, muscular, active and sometimes aggressive to be a real a man.
As a person in the society you can not be respected by just being you. You should put yourself into a box whose line is determined by someone else and if you can not conform than you will be marked as man. However as a woman you can not run off from being marked whether you conformed the norms or not.
( Sonja, I tried to stick with the time line that you give and I planned 10 minutes before and 5 minutes to proofreading and 60 to write. I will be happy to get your comment on this)
As women and men are biologically differing from each other, they also have some differences as an image in advertisements and in their social life. In this essay the topic will be discussed by referring “killing us softly (Katz) and “marked woman” (Tannen).
For some people women have an advantage because they are weak, vulnerable. And it is thought to be that they get help from the others and get protected so they have superiority because there is no one to give a hand to men. Actually it is not that simple and the usual case which applies for women in real life is not such that. As (Tennan) discussed in marked women, women are the one who usually categorized by some reasons. Even she found herself categorizing the women in a conference unconsciously. Because men have standard clothes and hair cut whereas women have a lot more details which give clues about them. When we try to reverse the situation and make the women to be simple clothed as men, the categorization will still be there. This time the women will be “marked” as not caring about how she looks. In that case women have no freedom to be unmarked whereas men can choose not to be marked by just being an ordinary man. Tannen stresses that women don’t even have a change to fill out a form by not giving clue about themselves because of the differences between Miss and Mrs. In contrast men have only Mr. which is the same for a married and a single man. On the other hand men are also marked and that is their chromosomes XY. Two X makes a female but two Y makes nothing unless it is attached to a single X chromosomes. But it is obvious that this is not a visual thing that strictly classifies men and women as the Miss and Mrs. and this is not the same thing where the women are victim. Also there is a “marked-unmarked” situation in surnames. Women mostly have their husbands name and it shows that a woman has traditional values. If she chooses to keep her surname as well as her husbands than it makes an impression that she should have done something important when she has her family name.
Quiet the same thing applies in media where the producers try to sell their products by the help of effective advertisements in which women’s body are used as an object. Being an object in ads. rather than a subject brings a concept of women’s place in the society which is shaped by the mass media. When the mass media and its one the most important tool advertisements show an image of beautiful, silent, passive women which affects the women’s self esteem in a negative way. Because according to ads. women need to be painfully thin as models and if they are not than they do not have a right to be happy, successful, rich etc. In the same way according to (Kilbourne) the men should be though, muscular, active and sometimes aggressive to be a real a man.
As a person in the society you can not be respected by just being you. You should put yourself into a box whose line is determined by someone else and if you can not conform than you will be marked as man. However as a woman you can not run off from being marked whether you conformed the norms or not.
( Sonja, I tried to stick with the time line that you give and I planned 10 minutes before and 5 minutes to proofreading and 60 to write. I will be happy to get your comment on this)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
13. Two Big Thumbs Up
Here and now we’re doing well with watching films for the course. Also I’ve been keep up to watch some other things.
Recently I watched the film “Lantana (2001)”. Actually it was kinda old movie but anyways I found it interesting as we consider the year of the shot.
The summary of the movie; you shouldn’t be trust in women, also men at all only you can trust in gays?? Yeah that was the first thing that pops into my mind. There is a detective Leon Zat (Anthony La Paglia, I am a great fun of him from the TV serial “Without a Trace”) is cheating on his wife with a woman in the same dance course of him and his wife. (How dare he?). His wife tries to cheat on him ones just to take revenge, but can not succeed. Also there was a missing shrink (Barbara Hershey) whose one patient is Leon’s wife and a gay guy. As the session goes on with the guy Dylan (March Dwyer) Valeria gets suspicious about her husband that he may be seeing Dylan. When Valeria got missing Leon took the case and things start to reveal.
When you watch the film you'll see that everybody has something to hide and some can end up bitterly.
By the way the Dylan’s story will confirmed and it’ll seen that he is honest. There you go, gender in media? How can you interpret this?
For those who want to see more on Lantana, here its theatrical trailer
http://www.spike.com/video/lantana-theatrical/2414583
The poster is retrieved 3 January 2010 from http://www.impawards.com/2001/posters/lantana.jpg
12. Welcome to 2010 (Avatar)
As Simge named her post as “the first post of 2010” firstly I wanted to congratulate her and add my first blog of 2010 about the film Avatar. I feel that many of us probably went to see the movie since nearly all the sessions were full one or two days before in several cinemas.
I had been eagerly waiting to see that movie because I saw its trail about months ago and really exited. On top of that because the movie will have been in 3 dimensions and because I have never seen a movie in 3D apart from child films that make it more attractive than anything else even than 2012.
When I went to see the movie it was a great fun in the first half. In the second half the images started to make my stomach bad and also my head started to dizzy. It was really bad and I felt into a conflict of continuing to watch the film or keeping my eyes closed in order not to vomit in the middle of it. For a moment I thought to take of the glasses but it was even worse than watching it with my glasses on. At the end that was a big decision for me to keep my eyes closed in the movie that I’ve been dying to see for nearly a year. Any way it was good to use my imagination by just hearing the voices.
I strongly recommend the movie for those who haven’t seen it yet and I can assure that it will be an unusual experiment for them but I can’t guarantee that there will be something off the beat in the last half hour of the movie which ruins its whole fame.
Photograph is retrieved 3 January 2010 from
Note: I am not sure whether some grammers are correct or not. If there are mistakes I'd be appriciate to correct them. Thanks Sonja...
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