Week Eleven - Posting Eleven

McKay, Hollie. "Bill Maher Calls Sarah Paline a Female Vulgarism, NOW Stays Mum." FoxNews.com. FoxNews.com, 22 March 2011. Web. 29 Mar 2011. <http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/03/22/maher-calls-sarah-palin-female-vulgarism-stays-mum/>.

If this article is not the splitting image of gender bias and sexism, I do not know what is then. Everyone makes fun of Sarah Palin. She is portrayed as not being very knowledgeable in her own realm of politics, dim-witted and so on. Tina Fey does a great impression of her on Saturday Night Live. The woman very well might have some great aspects and views that are worth hearing, but we never will know really because of our image of her and how the media portrays her. Bill Maher just takes it to the next level by name calling, that is just disrespectful to all women and it doesn't matter what political party you're in either. I mean television itself is really just amazing anymore with what they can get away with by either saying something offensive or implying it. There a lot more women than there were a few years ago in administrative positions or in politics, but the average percentage is still low. And thinking from men like Bill Maher who make just feel intimidated by women with power hurt the progress and success of women.

Planned Parenthood

Berger, Judson. "Anti-Abortion Group Accuses Planned Parenthood of Lying About Mammogram    Services." FowNes.com. FoxNews.com, 30 March 2011. Web. 30 Mar 2011. <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/30/anti-abortion-group-accuses-planned-parenthood-lying-mammogram-services/?test=latestnews>.

 I have been hearing a lot about Planned Parenthood in the news lately, especially here in Muncie, Indiana. Mike Pence has been bad mouthing the organization for awhile now and it has been an on going battle with new laws and regulations trying to be passed. The article is basically saying and accusing Planned Parenthood of claiming that they perform mammograms, but then when asked saying that they didn't. I have gone to Planned Parenthood before and just because they do not use a machine to perform a breast cancer test doesn't mean that they don't use other methods of testing. The organization provides a lot of services primarily for women and children, but also for men too. The reader can tell from the article that they are trying to bad mouth Planned Parenthood, but they do bring up valid points where the community does benefit from the clinics. I love what the article says at the end of the posting discussing how the organization does provide services such as abortion for women and how there is competition for funding with other clinics. And because funding is such a big issue with Planned Parenthood right now in the news they give the approximate amount of money the organization claimed during 2008-2009. I mean why does that need to be discussed in this article? We should fund organizations like these, they provide services that the community benefits from if there people are healthy and educated in their health. That is a big problem for people in this country and in the world, people are just not educated enough about their health and ways to prevent diseases. The topic is such a taboo to be disuchttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/30/anti-abortion-group-accuses-planned-parenthood-lying-mammogram-services/?test=latestnewsssed about in public, especially when it has to deal with educating our children about themselves.

Week Five - Posting Five

Ramos-e-Silva, Marcia. "Saint Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179): “the light of her people and of her time”." International Journal of Dermatology 38.4 (1999): 315-320. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 24 Mar. 2011.

The author of this article describes how they became to highly respect Hildegard von Bingen for her creativity and writing that benefited women during the Middle Ages. The author researched the "Women in Dermatology" which included von Bingen during this period of time and how she created works of writing and observed many different areas of life during the medieval times which also included medicine and health of women. Some of her observations about life and medicine that were discussed in the article still pertain to issues that women and society deal with today.

I liked this article because of how the author took her life and the use of her visions and said that even though they may have been caused by migraines she used these visions as a message or interpreted them to be from God. Her faith played a part in what she wrote about and how she lived out her life.

Cortés-Vélez, Dinorah. "MARIAN DEVOTION AND RELIGIOUS PARADOX IN SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ." Renascence 62.3 (2010): 178-200. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 24 Mar. 2011.

The article discusses Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, whom had devoted her life to the Catholic church as a nun and is "regarded as the last great poet of the Spanish Baroque and the first great poet of Latin American Colonial literature." There was some conflict during the time period she lived in because was what the social norms were and how she voiced her opinions and writing in society and throughout the church. 

I learned a little bit about Sor Juana before this class when I attended a Catholic school and I was impressed them with her as a woman and as a rhetoric writer. She tried to inspire women during her time. She had been devoted to the church since her birth and was especially devoted to the Virgin Mary. This devotion of her faith and religion helped her try to make the figure of the Virgin Mary an important figure in women's lives and decisions.

Week Nine - Posting Nine

I just recently watched the move Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and it gave me an idea of what I would like to discuss in my second reading report. The movie takes places in the 1970's around the time when women were really taken notice in the workforce. The was they treated women with the jokes and side comments are awful, and the women pretty much had to take it because the didn't want to step on people's toes (the men) in the workforce or make a fuss over the comments because it would be a sign of weakness. Men were scared or felt intimidated by women in the workforce especially women work did worked well and had ambition. Going with the movie Veronica Corningstone wanted to be an anchorwoman very badly and did what she had to do professionally to achieve that goal. In my paper I want to talk about how women left the home and moved into the workplace and how that transition helped and also hurt them as people in society and as the women they were.

Week Ten - Posting Ten

I found, while reading the discussion for this week's blog posting, a statement that made me start thinking..."that the political, legislative, and social reforms targeted by the Women's Rights Movement were meant primarily for white, middle-class women and not all women." This is true like I kind of started talking about in my blog posting number eight. The actual progress and regulations that are made from reforms seem to only go so far down the line from upper to middle and lower class women, whom are White, Black, Hispanic, etc. To me it seem like with feminist social reforms started most of the women were upper and middle class women who wanted to go father in their lives beyond just being the object of a man and a wife and homemaker. Women wanted education, better jobs, and better healthcare. Rights weren't and still are not equal than those of a man. And the less rich and less privileged you were the less opportunities that came your way. The women who were poop and lower class and very hard workers were the ones whom really needed a change in society, but it was so much harder for them to receive any benefit from trying to help themselves because society allowed it to be hard. In earlier decades if a woman was some how violated in any way, it wasn't discussed and was rarely publicized or reported when needed. Still today violation of women occurs but more women voice their oppression and more things are done about it and their are supports groups and places for women to go (rape victims groups, women's shelters). But what kinds of women are in these groups? Who are the advisors, so to speak and who are the victims (Whites, Blacks, etc.)

Week Eight - Posting Eight

Trends and styles come and go in each society. It depends on the time period, the way of thinking for people during that time and social and economical events and issues that go on during those time periods and how we as women identify with them. All these implications affect each woman differently in society and in our communities. When women we valued only has a wife and homemaker the woman was styled in society differently than today. The woman cooked and cleaned and was mostly viewed or advertised to be in the kitchen or taking care of the children while the man always was viewed with a suit on and a briefcase in tote. This sense of view was during the early 1900's and as time went on women ventured out of the home and into society, they were seen out in public more in various activities and in the work place. As this happened it seemed like it as the more privileged women in upper social classes that were finally acceptable to be seen that way. Minorities and working class women seemed to always be on the back burner. Less privileged and poor women did want to be seen, that way of life wasn't supposed to be reality in the social norm even those these women were equally important.  It doesn't matter what time period it is someone is always being forgotten or set aside in society even when rights for people are being fought, the actual progress from protests and new regulations seem to only trickle down to a certain extent. Women are devalued in a sense is society, their importance seems to flow with trends in society and what is valued at the time.