The disney Affect

In class this week we watched the we took the time to look at various things which I will describe through out my blog we visited we talked about the Disney affect. The Disney affect is basically having young girl fit into the "Disney Princess" mentality that you have to be saved by a man be non-educated and your old fashion"woman. Give  up something for a male which leads me to my example Ariel she gave her voice up for a man and he gives up nothing.

I guess subliminally little girls are learning you have to give things up for a mans love and  to be pretty and skinny and have long hair and perfect shape. Then they can grow up thinking that is the equivalent to the meaning of pretty. I feel Disney movies are still good and I grew up on them and I feel I am fine I think those movies are fine and they are great to grow up with as longs as the parents ensure the difference between fairy tale and real world. As long as little girls one is possible but love is not just the females responsibility .


We also watched a video with two males and females kissing  and there was a noise made in the class that our professor felt offensive. I was the noise and it was not because it was Male on male or female on female I believe my professor forgot I'm the same girl who gets freaked out to watch her parents kiss tongues are just disgusting to me and it freezer framed on an awkward part of  there tongues touching it could have been male or female or two dogs kissing and I still would have been freaked out. I feel my professor is stuck in his own mind of everyone thinking homosexuals are offensive find love how you find I feel who am I to stop it. Both of these things talked about our stereotypes and pay no mind to stereotypes or feed into them because in a all reality if I did  as black woman should be on section 8 collecting Welfare fresh off of Maury not knowing the father of my 5 kids but I'm not. As long as we continue to train up a child in the way they should good leaving open minds then we can start to make a slight change in our society. Should I have made the noise no it was not appropriate but he went on a whole frenzy when the homosexuals was not even the issue.

I HATE the new I repeat I HATE THE NEWS

Okay so all my friends and family are very aware that I HATE THE NEWS. I mean I know I should watch it so I know what is going on around me but i cannot stand the news. I can tell or what is on the news before i watch it. A black man went to jail, a black man got shot and killed and a black man killed. Some little white girl is missing and then if it is football season we will have  40 mints focusing on the Steelers.  So we HAD to watch the News and track and I was right Black men went to jail, There is a little girl missing and has been for about 2 weeks now and of course we spent time watching 30 minutes about our steelers and where  Big Ben will be traveling in his free time. I do not care where Ben is going at all I rather get my news from Twitter and Facebook wait for my mom to call me in the morning. Even when the covered the woman that dropped her niece out the window I wanted more information than they supplied me with and it should have been longer!!!! Ill stick with my mother as my new resource and Twitter new depresses me anyways.

Is it funny or Insulting.

Of course we have all heard the statement " Laugh with them "  or  heard of someone making a bad situation funny. How far is to far. This blog is going to have a focus on "Satire". Satire the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing,denouncing, or deriding vice, folly. I am re-introducing a video I have used before in a previous blog. I feel it is such a good fit and will help illustrate my point of view.

 This video is a clip from the Dave Chappel Show. "The Niggar Family" in this it takes basic stereotypes and assumption about African Americans and pokes fun at it by having it be a "white" family. 

In this video it visits a lot of stereotypes concerning the physical attributes, characteristic of "African Americans"

. They talk about lips its is said that black people have fuller lips.They talk about a white man basically not wanting his white daughter dating a black male. Touch on that tardiness and even how we could be treated at a restaurant. 

The next video I came across is about a man who did not know he was black and believed in WHITE POWER ! Talks about not only race issues but homosexual and other world issues that are often talked about teased and greatly discussed. 

I watched both of these clips with  mother who did not find the humor in either video. She states "it is to painful". Is everything meant to be joked about. I challenged my mother with the statement maybe its taking the power out of the people who say these type of things to be hurtful or spiteful and turning it around. Switching the tables to laugh at pain. I think of it as in the way if i fall in front of people I will laugh as well so I can not feel any type of embarrassing any type of emotion that makes me feel uneasy and uncomfortable. Focusing on the use of "N" word my mom was one of the people that had sit in and experience the real use of the word. Does it make it okay to take the power out of the world and make it common or is there still power behind it. How would those who got beat while being called a "nigga" feel that it is no used so loosely. Do i find this funny well I sm still on the fence I can laugh but there is still a feeling of being offended in my soul.