Yesterday, we had the pleasure of viewing the videos made by our fellow classmates. Each video we saw had great elements. I liked hoe group 4 turned the assignment into a news casting. This was a good was to state the facts without being boring. I really enjoyed group two’s video. It was the best edited. I loved how there were different types of people interviewed to produced different perspectives. Still, by far, my favorite video was group 3! I love comedy and this video was hilarious! I especially liked how they managed to make the video funny without deferring from the topic. Great job guys!
Videos in the classroom (via the web) are a fairly new thing. I am interested to see if this meme will continue to evolve and spread. Maybe, all of our assignments will be able to be submitted via videos! Can you imagine that? To me videos in the class room have benefits and disadvantages. It is an easy way to to convey a topic without writing a long drawn out paper. Yet, there are many things that can go wrong with the technology. If the meme does spread and evolve, I hope they give classes to aid in the production process!
Kashonda Mann
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Rebecca Watson's Feminism
In class last week, my group read the second article about the feminism meme. The article was about a woman named Rebecca Watson who was offended when a man asked her out to coffee. The author went on to say “What’s kind of funny about these things is that feminists love to talk about how creeped out they are by men who pay attention to them, and they love to carry on in detail about the particular experiences.”
Webster defines feminism as the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. I feel that the author has a distorted view of feminism due to extremists like Rebecca Watson. Watson, I think, overreacted to a simple request from an acquaintance. However, the author was wrong to assume that all women with feminist ideals are as extreme as Watson. I believe that any person who values equality between men and women hold feminist notions; however on a smaller, less aggressive scale than Watson.
Emily Spinner
Webster defines feminism as the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. I feel that the author has a distorted view of feminism due to extremists like Rebecca Watson. Watson, I think, overreacted to a simple request from an acquaintance. However, the author was wrong to assume that all women with feminist ideals are as extreme as Watson. I believe that any person who values equality between men and women hold feminist notions; however on a smaller, less aggressive scale than Watson.
Emily Spinner
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