Designer Vaginas

I only have a few things to say about this reading and the first is that I find it very sad that women think they need to refine themselves with such a cosmetic surgery.  I think that we are all made differently and that is one area that doesn’t need changing! Does doing this to themselves make them feel better and raise their self esteem, then maybe a tatoo or a piercing would take care of that.  I think it is silly!  In a nut shell if women are doing this to themselves to impress men, it isn’t necessary; men are easy to please!  On the flip side of that, if there are some women who have disfigurements or have been sexually molested to the point of major trauma then that is completely different but just to do this for the sheer pleasure of displaying themselves to men for a career then again I say it is ridiculous and silly!!

Add a comment September 30, 2007

Saving Face

I have found I have enjoyed watching the movies that have been asigned for our class, so far I hadn’t seen any of them prior to this.  Although, this last movie, Saving Face, was not one that I thoroughly enjoyed but certainly learned from.   This movie shows what role family culture can play in one’s life.   The daughter, Wil, is a young aspiring physician who is also a lesbian, who falls in love with her boss’s daughter.  The two girls are torn between their attraction and their families to do the right thing.  Both girls want it all but can’t do it all.  Wil’s mother, 48 and unmarried, comes up pregnant and her father completely banished her from their home.  She moves in with Wil and tries to take over, which is funny to watch how they interact now with such different lives as well as with her daughter’s habits and friends.  This movie took so many “wrongs” and tried to make them right.  The love affair of the mother with a younger man was frowned upon so much that she was going to marry another man just to save her relationship with her father as well as his reputation in his own community.   But at the end she was able to happily unite with him and still be in good graces with everyone else.  Wil and Viv have a quiet lesbian relationship but once their families find out it seems that Wil is still a little afraid to tell her mother.  It takes time but she tells her and gets the response that she expected and Wil’s boss also finds out that they have a realtionship and he tells her how she is getting in between Viv and her success.  Also, another happy outcome for these two girls as it happens that their family are the ones to get them back together, they would rather see them happy in their lesbian relationship.    The father/grandfather finally begins to come around more after the sudden death of his wife–he sees what is important to his family. 

I have to be honest and say that I did not like having to watch the girls together.  They could have left out the intimate parts and then the movie would have been a good one!

2 comments September 24, 2007

Boys will be boys

While reading the chapter by M. Nelson I became frustrated at the thought that men and women will never be considered equals in the sporting arenas.   I agree that woman are excluded and devalued when it comes to various sports and that women are not considered great athletes.  I would like to see a  football player go out and try to be a cheerleader or a gymnist, probably would  make for a great Funniest Home Video, but he wouldn’t do very well, just as a tiny gymnist wouldn’t do well on the football field other than get sandwiched by a 300 pound running back!  There are so many different sporting opportunites for a reason, people are made differently and have so many different talents, but still women are inferior to men.  This day and age there are more women and men taking an interest in a sport that at one time wouldn’t be considered for them but they participate because they are capable regardless of how it use to be.  I think men see women as a competetor and I hope that is the  way it continues so everyone’s mind set can change. 

Add a comment September 15, 2007

While I was reading the Social Construction of Disability a good friend of mine came to mind and it was nice to go back and think about him and reflect on what he goes through every day.  I am from a small, rural town in South Dakota where kids are allowed to get a motorcycle license at a very young age,  as early as age 13, or we could back then I should say.  One  late afternoon he was riding into town on his motorcycle and a woman was blinded by the falling sun and pulled out and hit him, throwing him into the air and then coming in contact with a stop sign, alive but extremely critically injured.  He was hospitalized for a very long time, surgery after surgery to repair so much of his broken body but never could the doctors “fix” his legs.  The very tall, lanky athlete would never regain the use of his legs again, a whole new life would be his now.  He was only in the 10th grade at the time and he missed most of that year recooperating in rehab, but was able to catch up and eventually graduate with his class, no walking across that stage for him but at least he did it!  He was use to a life of wheelchairs and ramps and now the use of elevators no matter where he would go.  None of this would keep him down.  He attended a University in Minnesota and was a member of their w/c basketball team and also the  track team.  He is very capable of driving a car, I believe one of his current cars is a red Corvette and a Jeep so his whole family, wife and daughter, can ride together.  Nothing much really holds him down, he has always had a good outlook on life, as I believe in his mind he knows that he was given a second chance at life!  He doesn’t get angry about his disablity or the challenges that he faces on a daily basis and most people don’t look down on him as an invalid but as a very successful banker.   I believe he is doing well due to his strong beliefs, his ablity to look past the ignorant and continue to stay the positive person that he is. 

Add a comment September 4, 2007

I am not sure if this is what I am suppose to be writing but this is something going through my head right now. It is Monday and we are all out of school/work today and here I am cleaning a bit around the house, doing the laundry and watching the kids but where is my husband? On the couch, he’s watching TV and ignoring the ding of the dryer. I take a quick shower between loads and after I get dressed I see him sitting there in front of the TV and say that I thought just maybe he would’ve at least gotten the clothes out but no he hadn’t even thought about it. Shortly after that he left with his buddy and our son to go dove hunting. How ironic, what I am doing?? Yes the rest of the laundry. Frustrated? Yes, quite!

1 comment September 4, 2007

Hello world!

Hello friends!  I know everyone is in disbelief but I successfully created my very own Blog!!  I hope you all are as impressed as I am with this!  I never knew what I was capable of, I have to keep in mind I can do anything!  

“If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right.” 

Henry Ford

1 comment September 1, 2007