unpredictable

The Do’s and Dont’s

the best EVER 08' — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:42:53 +0000

I have 1 main question. Why do certain genders get away with certain things?
The main concern Is:
why can guys have sooo many sex partners and girls can have like 1 or 2. Back wen i was in high school the boys would talk about how many girls they “hit” and they would be “the man” ., one boy said she had sex with over 13 girls and everyone thought he was lying but still thought it was funny that 13 girls would actually give him some. but when they asked this girl how many dudes did she get down with, she said 9 she started to get these weird looks from everyone. I know about the whole body is a temple thing but why can you give your body away but not get looked at differently? I mean I think anyone between the ages of 16 and 18 with 9 or 13 sex partners is uncalled for but that’s your body, do what makes you happy, just don’t be dumb about it and KEEP IT 2 UR SELF. So why did she get weird looks and he didn’t? Please tell me.

Then you have the kiss on the cheek when you greet the other person. (mostly ladiiees). Why can men do that.. Is that gay? LOL. Well 2 me it is but If thats what you llike then so be it.

Okay then comes the dancing all on each other at the club. Why isnt that gay 4 women? I mean I think any of the same sex dancing all on each other sends off a radar, but then again if that’s what u like then so be It. i have so many other points its just ridiculous. Like hairstyles, women can get a haircut but if a man get s a perm it’s all hell. lol. Then, men can drink out of the bottle but for women its unladylike. Everything about these topics are just funny to me because the opposite sex really cant get away with it.

Thankx 4 listenin.
Keneatra

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I’m doing this so extremely late ::Sorry::

the best EVER 08' — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:24:20 +0000

I think Gender roles are very over rated. like for example. My parents let my brother stay the night over his friend’s house all the time. My parents usually didn’t even when I was in highschool because they either believed that my friend’s parents could do something to me, or that I would sneak out and do something crazy and end up with my boyfriend somewhere. Why they thought such things, i have no idea because I’m a pretty good kid. My grandma also has this idea that if i stay the night over someones house that their parent’s might kill me in my sleep?! because she read a story about something like that happening in the newspaper, and then another girl who was rapped by her friend’s dad and a couple of his friends. But honestly though what are the chances that such things will happen more then once. I’m not denying that rape happens, but I think that these thoughts are overstimulated. I also think it’s dumb when guys can sleep around and say not get called anything, but when a girl does something she’s a whore. It’s takes too to tango, so the blame shouldn’t just be on the female. Another thing that I’ve also grown up with is that my dad is old school about their whole husband and wife roles. When he gets home he expects dinner on the table and the house nice and clean, my mom has to fix his plate and pick it up for him after he’s done and whatever he needs hes always calling forr my mom to do it. I understand that he comes from work tired, but I know that when I’m older I am not going to be in the kitchen cooking a meal stressing over whether i’m going to have it ready in time or not. I think that couples these days should help eachother cook, or at least have some kind of equal work effort. I don’t want my brother growing up thinking that he should be the “man of the house” and be in charge and boss people around, thats so 1950s. Even though i’m 18 my dad is still really strict on me, he doesn’t like when I’m out late, he won’t let me get any tattoos or peircings, he doesn’t even like me dying my hair. He’ll constantly call me to see what im doing when I’m out. I think a lot of it has to do that he doesn’t want me making mistakes like he once did, and he wants me to focus on school and not so much on my relationship. but with my brother he wants him to focus more on baseball and then school. So he treats us very differently.

jeannette chapa

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We’re not all that bad. Are we?

the best EVER 08' — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:33:51 +0000

I mean, come on. Stuntman Mike was a TOTAL creeper and psycho. There’s no doubt about that. But the first set of girls were more self-centered and on the prowl for a nice looking guy with a hot car or something along the lines of that. Compared to the second set of girls who were very strong willed and could spot his creepiness from the very start. One major difference between the two sets of girls is when stuntman mike called the girl from New York a chicken shit because she wouldn’t give him a lap dance. She was apprehensive at first but she wouldn’t be able to live down the title of chicken shit in his book, so she went ahead and gave him the lap dance. Personally, I feel that if he were to call one of the other girls a chicken shit, they would not have had that and they would have gone to town on stuntman Mike much earlier than they did in their part of the movie. I’m not promising that this is going to make sense to anyone, but it does to me. it’s just hard for me to get it all on here in words.

I liked the second set of girls much more in that they knew what they wanted, who they wanted, and how they would get what they wanted when they wanted it. Wow, sorry guys. I don’t think that stuntman Mike knew what he had coming after him when he originally was going to kill the three girls. I liked that the roles were switched and they didn’t just go with the fact that it was, “A hell of a good time”, or whatever he said. Honest;y, I wasn’t expecting as much of an ass-whooping as Mike got, but he had it coming to him long before this.

One more thing, the blonde chick at the bar; she was a complete waste of space and I was more than ok with her being killed. Typical bar girl just looking for a way to get home since she obviously can’t take care of herself and I think that Mike saw that more than him just being a psycho killer. That’s all

-Jordan

P.S. Jenna,

I commented Danny’s and Esther’s posts. It’s 10:33 A.M. and I’m coming to class!

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girls rule and boys drool…or vice versa

the best EVER 08' — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:34:31 +0000

When i was thinking of what to write about as far as gender goes. I would like to talk about two things the movie and the world is a text reading. First off i loved the movie death proof. As far as the characters go the first group of ladies i felt were very dumb and annoying. They didn’t know the reality of how creepy some people can be. Like the one chick that had stunt man mike drive her home was completely stupid and ignorant. Why the hell would you drive home with someone you don’t even know, especially when that person has a very scary car. The second group of women were strong and knew how to handle tough situations, they had girl power. They stuck to stunt man mike literally. These women were powerful and knew who they were, they were going about trying to pleasure random guys, they do things for themselves and aren’t afraid to show some masculinity. That was a basic summary of how i felt about the characters in death proof. AS far as the reading goes in the world is text i thought it was very interesting when it said how we basically automatically assume someone is a girl or a guy just by the why they look, act, or do things. I always think,yeah I’m all for whatever your heart desires do it and don’t let anyone judge you for it. Be the individual. But sometimes i feel like i can be a hypocrite because i do follow the rest of stereotypical beliefs for some gender ideas. Such as men should be more of the manly man, whereas the women shouldn’t be rough and brutish. But it all depends on how you were brought up. If a female was brought up with three brothers, then she most likely would be comfortable being just one of the guys. Where on the other hand if a guy was brought up with all girls, he might be in touch with his feminine side a little more then most men. Like i said that’s my judgement and i could be completely wrong, but take it as it is. Girl-power…Boy-power, which ever one is better, you make the choice.

Kellie Clifton

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lame title: gender blog

the best EVER 08' — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:13:03 +0000

so, i am not really sure what i should write about. i am sort of doing this at the last minute. so ill just talk about general boys and girls i guess. boys play ball. girls play house. that is the way it should be. that is the way it has always been (with humans at least (i do not care about lions and sea horses)). if you think otherwise that, girls should be the provider of a family/household and boys should be the primary care-giver, your wrong, but entitled to your opinion that happens to be frowned upon by ninety-nine percent of households in the united states. at the end of this sentence i will have one-hundred and twenty-one words. now, why am i ninety-nine times more right than you (i am speaking to my opposition, if you agree, you are smart and deserve a sandwich from the wife)? because, the world thinks so, and so does nature. before “back in the day”, when man was making fire and developing a culture, tribes and early civilizations succeeded because of the success of their chiefs and kings. notice how i did not say chiefettes; i am sure early man would not have made it past a single generation without women. do not let me go off on a tangent. i now have two-hundred and twenty-six words. the point i am trying to make is very broad, like the shoulders of the man who created the standards and expectations of how a family should work. i would like to say i am not sexxxist. i do not think women are incapable of doing a mans job (many women have more than enough capacity to do what ever they like), however, i like it when things work well. i like it even more when its been working well for millions of years. thus, i like it when men are given the task to provide, and women are there to care for and raise a family. please do not think i avoided the fact that in some cases, men care and women wear the pants. sometime that works, and sometimes it works very well. however, my focus is not exception. exceptions do not make up the majority, they hardly ever happen. i now have more than three-hundred and fifty words.

C. McG

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gender roles in my family

the best EVER 08' — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:35:00 +0000

my family has the typical gender roles in it. my dad goes to work and gets paid, and my mom stays at home and cooks and cleans. pretty “traditional” i guess. i dont like that though that people think that is how it should be. when i am older and married with children, i do want to raise them, but i also want to work. im planning on going into the medical field, and that takes a lot of time and money, so i am not going to do all that work and get myself into debt so that i just wont work. back in the day though, there were no females going to work to support a family. im glad its different now, so that the family can decide what is best for them to do in order to maintain a functional family. i completely am opposite of a traditional female gender role person, now that i think about it. because i do want to work as an adult. i also do not know how to cook and would much rather not clean =] what i hate about gender though is the double standard that is held for men versus women. like how parents treat their children differently depending on their sex. that is not fair. or how when a guy has sex with a lot of girls, he is considered cool or whatever because he can get all these girls, but thats stupid. girls can get much more guys than any guy can get of girls, but if a girl goes for it, she is not thought of the same as a guy. instead she is a slut or whore. thats not fair. and i hate how a woman and a man can have the exact same job doing the exact same thing but the female gets paid less than the male. why? most of the people i work with, even though i work with younger people, like twenties, on average, the girls are much better at their job than the guys. females have it rough =] just joking. they actually have it a lot better than back in the day. females back then had it rough.

Christina Daya

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Just My Opinion

the best EVER 08' — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:31:26 +0000

I think that people are confused about what they think is right. You believe men and women should be or act a certain way or act a ertain way, pershely. Unfortunately, there are a lot of women who are in situation were they have to raise boys to men, but i believe that that is impossible. I know that sound crazy and u might be up set but hey its my opinion. I think that women are women and can not teach a boy how to become a man because they are not a man. Not that a women cant love and raise a boy to a man to the best of her ability because a woman can and we see that happen every day. But a boy need some kind of man to show them how to be a man. If a boy is raise by just a mother does not state that the boy wont grow to be come a man because look for father figures or men that that they look up to. But on the other hand people believe that a mother is more fit to raise children rather than men are. SOOOOOOO false I think that men and women are equal fit to raise a child as long as the child is give the things need to become a adult, and a parent can do that. Which ever sex. Because the child is raised by the parent and also a community because everybody have different experiences out side of their home as well.

Because of the gender of a person they “from start” treated different. I was just talking to a boy in my dorm about this same issue. He was saying that if he had a son and daughter that the procedure to getting a car would be different. if it was the boy he would pay a certain amount for the car and the boy will have to pay the rest including the car note and insurance. If it was a girl he would just pay most of it and the insurance. I said why for the boy it’s harder and why can’t they have the same treatment. he said that he want the boy to understand that he have ot earn what he want ………… and more. I think that they should both have the same treatment becuase it teaches the girl to become more independent and the boys too.

either way it goes the world have a rule about what is acceptable for men and women. but i think any way we all should have the same treatment and resonsiblility because we all want the best out come.

Renee Blanchard

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That’s That

the best EVER 08' — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:22:35 +0000

Well, so that’s the deadline for our last blog post.

If you’re late, you need to send me your posts and comments for credit because I won’t be back on here again anytime soon.

Also, I guess I’ve learned my lesson about pushing back assignment due dates: 8 of you didn’t post! (Even though 2, A.A. and C.D., commented without posting. Not sure why?).

Thanks, guys. Nice work.

~Jenna G

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DO NOT ENTER(Boys Only)

the best EVER 08' — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:14:51 +0000

Recently I was watching a music video on Youtube. It is a pretty popular video, produced by the world renowned Boyonce. What puzzled me was the title of this music video. The title as many of you may already be familiar with was “If I Were A Boy”. No can someone tell me why in the world, would one of the most beautiful women in the world would want to be a boy? When I first heard the song it seemed to be bashing the male gender as a whole. To give you readers a breif overview here are the lyrics to “If I Were A Boy” by Beyonce Knowles:

If I were a boy
Even just for a day
I’d roll outta bed in the morning
And throw on what I wanted then go
Drink beer with the guys
And chase after girls
I’d kick it with who I wanted
And I’d never get confronted for it.
Cause they’d stick up for me.

[Chorus]
If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man.
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taken you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

[Verse]
If I were a boy
I would turn off my phone
Tell everyone it’s broken
So they’d think that I was sleepin’ alone
I’d put myself first
And make the rules as I go
Cause I know that she’d be faithful
Waitin’ for me to come home (to come home)

[Chorus]
If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man.
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted (wanted)
Cause he’s taken you for granted (granted)
And everything you had got destroyed

[Bridge]
It’s a little too late for you to come back
Say its just a mistake
Think I’d forgive you like that
If you thought I would wait for you
You thought wrong

[Chorus 2]
But you’re just a boy
You don’t understand
Yeah you don’t understand
How it feels to love a girl someday
You wish you were a better man
You don’t listen to her
You don’t care how it hurts
Until you lose the one you wanted
Cause you’ve taken her for granted
And everything you have got destroyed
But you’re just a boy. . .

The closer I looked the more familiar the situation seemed. Men do take women for granted. No matter how faithful his girl is, no man can help but gawk as a model walks down the street or even if a cute waitress catches his eye. It’s nothing personal, it doesn’t mean that he loves you any less, it’s just his nature. Boys will be boys. Beyonce in this video captures how ignorant a man can be about little things, such as not noticing how a girl wakes up early to make his breakfast and he doesn’t even give it a second glance. One thing worse than being put down, is being invisible, and that’s how she must feel when he doesn’t notice all the things she does for him. Theoretically, men should be able to understand and women should be a little less emotional, however this world doesn’t run off theories, it runs off cold hard facts. The fact of the matter is that he’s just a boy, not a girl, and that’s why he’ll never understand how it feels to be a girl. Overall I think a lot of guys need to go and Youtube this video, it shows a lot of things that words just can’t convey.

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If I were a boy….

the best EVER 08' — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:10:15 +0000

I was listening to this song the other day and when we were assigned this blog I thought it would be very fitting to include this in my post. In the song, Beyonce talks about what it would be like to be a boy, the things that she could do as a man and not get confronted for, and the way guys think when they are in relationships. I hope any of you guys reading this don’t take it too offensively, but I do think that she has a point. I also think the things she talks about are something that you should think about when talking about gender roles. One of the first things she talks about is clothes. She sings “I’d roll out of bed in the morning/And throw on what I wanted and go.” I would like to refer to Ivan’s post about this, and point out that it is almost expected of most guys to literally throw on the first thing that they see. It seems almost unfair when you think of how much work a woman has go through to look decent. For a man to look a little dishevled and not well put together and be respected is okay, but for a woman to do the same is not acceptable? Another thing that she talks about in the song is how that if she were a boy she could hang out with whoever she wanted and no one would be able to say anything to her about it. Many girls, especially teenage girls are sometimes ‘forbidden’ to hang out with certain people. A girl may not be able to hang out with a certain friend or have a certain boyfriend because her parents won’t let. Some girls boyfriends’ that I know won’t let them hang out with guys. I find this really silly, and think that people, no matter what they’re gender, should be able to hang out with whoever they wanted. I just realized that this was very, very much like our last essay, but I found it relevant to our topic.

-Maryam Yousif

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