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Monday, April 19, 2010

Object Lessons: Romance, Violation, and Female Adolescent Sexual Desire

When reading Object Lessons: Romance, Violation, and Female Adolescent Sexual Desire by: Deborah L. Tolman I could not help to get back to my roots of One in Four. For those who do not know what One in Four (http://www.oneinfourusa.org/) is, it's an all male group that teaches other males (or in the case or RIC everyone) about rape education. We put on an hour long presentation where we talk about rape and sexually assault and how to help a women when she goes though something as bad as rape.

So when reading this article I could not help to think about all I have learn from One in Four. When Deborah L. Tolman interviewed 16 year old Isabel who is considered "asexual" because she's white and middle class, I went back to one of my training session where we had something similar to what happen there.

Tolman is trying to show how society sees the objectification that females have to go thought each and everyday. As a male I will never know the pain that females go though with society telling them how to look. Where for a male it's o.k how ever you look.

Monday, April 12, 2010

New Meida

For some reason my laptop would not let me open up the readings. So I am going off what everyone else is saying in their blogs. It's funny if you think of it, I am getting a summary off other people blogs as we talk about new media. I find myself online getting all my information from applying for jobs to staying up in current news. I find myself at looking at www.weei.com where I get all my Boston sports news.

It's also funny on how face book started to where it stands now. The main goal was for college kids to stay in touch in a class at Harvard. Now it has become an addition for people who have to be on the website all the time.

New media has taken over our lives whether we like it or not. It came into our lives fast and is going to be for ever changing. Look at how many people have cell phones and for the matter with the internet on their phones. We live in such a teach savvy world it's almost frighting. We are at a point where we don't even have to leave our bed's in the morning, as people can go to work right from their lap top. That's a scary thought in my mind.