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I had a visitor on Sunday this weekend; my Mom came up for a few hours to take me out to dinner.  It was great to see her, but it was more interesting to talk with her about my Commonplace paper subject and an article that she brought with her to share that had to do with my idea.  I wanted to explore how the media makes girls feel so inadequate because none of us feels pretty enough, thin enough, or fabulous enough in general in comparison to the models we see in magazines, or actresses we see on TV and movies.  My sister, who is a freshman in high school, had torn a magazine article out of Glamour magazine and laid it on her dresser.  It was about a girl, now 26, who decided to that she was going to send out her own messages to other young women around her.  She armed herself with Post-It notes and a marker and decided to stick the notes on bathroom mirrors in all of the public restrooms she visited.  The messages she was writing was all centered around telling women how beautiful they are just the way they are.  All shapes and sizes are awesome, things like that.  I thought it was a really neat idea.

            The next thought I had about the whole situation is that my 14 yr. old sister felt the need to tear this out and keep it out where she could see it.  My Mom asked her why the article interested her, and she said that she thought it was a cool idea.  She wanted to do the same thing at her school.  Girls at school feel so crumbly about themselves all the time and maybe this would make one girl feel good about herself for just a little while when she walks out of there to face everyone again.  Hmmm, I think that is a pretty cool thing to do too.

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So I’m blogging about Grey’s Anatomy.  I love this show so much and it always throws me for a loop.  I never know what is going to happen next and that makes it so much better than other predictable shows.  Tonight I watched one of the newer ones and it was about a woman who tried to kill her ex husband by running him over while he was I a laundry mat…weird.  She said it was because of the big green eyed monster she had I her (envy/jealousy)  and that it over took her or something.  It was so weird.  She tried to play it off though at first like she passed out and doesn’t remember doing it at all but then they took blood work and did all of these impressive but confusing tests that said she did not in fact pass out and she really just drove her car into the laundry mat.  The only reason they tested though is because they felt bad for her and wanted her to not get into trouble. They were just trying to protect her and try and save pretty much the rest of her life. But they can only do so much.  But then this got me thinking, why would someone that doesn’t even know you try and cover for you?  I mean I’m all for being nice to people but when it gets to that point that is wrong I my eyes.  She knew what she did and she deserves to get in trouble for it.  

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Halloween weekend!! Ok well in order not to sound like a complete loser I’m letting you know I will go out tomorrow night but I didn’t tonight, but I’m so glad I didn’t!! It was way more fun in my dorm. Everyone eon my floor was coming home drunk off their butts and it was hilarious. We had people dressed up in costumes from Kat Von Di to a sailor girl to the playboy bunnies or even…people that got beat up at Dayglow.  Let me just tell you that they kept bragging and going on about how they all each ha at least 3 four locos.. how they are all alive I don’t know!   It was probably the funniest thing I have seen in a longtime.  Anyways everyone decided that our hall was too bland so we decorated it in toilet paper.  I think we used up all of the toilet paper on our floor.  Which was not good later on!  But then I had a nice conversation with our be loved RA John who might I add is in fact going out tomorrow night as none other than himself and going to see rocky horror picture show! Which is what glee was based off of the other day!  And he is absolutely psyched about it!  But yeah all the people that stayed in tonight felt pretty lame so we had our own little gathering in TR’s room.  It was quite fun might I say!  But yeah that’s about it! I’m not sure what we were supposed to blog abut tonight so I just went with the whatever blog.  Whatever!

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My topic is how the media is effecting our youth today.  Advertising with barely-there girls, who look like they are about to wither away to nothing; telling you that you need to look like them.  Below are my two “stories” that will most likely be put into my paper.  They still need some work.

Hypothetical. - Can you think of a world that advertised with regular looking people and not sickly skinny girls?  It looks much better doesn’t it?  If people didn’t feel pressured to look a certain way or have people telling them why can’t you look like this girl, I don’t think there would be as many eating disorders, and a lot more healthy happy people.  It would be ok to be curvy and not a rail.  It’s crazy to think that there are little kids as young as five you have already started to develop these because of their parents and the world around them.   

Anecdote- I was sitting in my AP English class in high school when I was eves dropping (like I always do, I can’t help it) on my two friends and I heard a conversation that really bugged me.  My friend Alicia was talking to my other friend Sam about weight.  This girl might I say is one of the skinniest girls in our school; I’m talking pant size 0-1.  She proceeded to say “ I can’t even look at myself anymore, I’m way to fat and I have tried everything… I don’t know what else to do.”  My friend Sam goes on and tells her she is crazy for thinking that and she is way skinnier than anyone in the room like any good friend would.  They started talking about how they have heard (like everyone else) that throwing up makes you skinny, it sickened me to think someone I knew and cared about was going to resort to literally making herself sick to get skinnier than she already is.  I put my two cents in and I was not very nice about it.  I don’t think 

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I read the article, “Bad Sex” by Matt Teegarden.  This article was about how women candidates used sexism to try and win people over for votes. It gave the two examples of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.  It said that Hillary used sexism as being it’s victim and trying to get the people’s “pity” votes. “Who wants a president who is knocked down by something like sexism when she has to be able to stand through wars and terrorism?”  That is what I was thinking while reading this part of the article. Clearly this system did not work.  Then it showed how Sarah Palin used sexism as being strong and against it,  showing how it didn’t affect her at all.  Even though this is clearly a better way to campaign, a strong women who is proud of who she is,  it still failed.  I think this system failed because if they are saying that they hate sexism and it isn’t fair that people use it against women (especially in elections) but yet they are the ones who brought it up then how does that make sense?  I don’t think it does in my opinion.  Yes sex is a good way to sell something but sexism is not.  That is how Matt Teegarden got the name for this article, “Bad Sex”.  If I had been able to vote in these elections I wouldn’t have voted for either candidate (even though Sarah was just running for vice president) partially because of these campaign strategies.  

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So I’m thinking for my next little paper thing we have to do, I’m going to do it on how the media affects people’s body image.  I don’t know if this subject is too broad or not so your comments would be greatly appreciated.  Anyways I have been researching and one article said that there are little kids as young as five years old who have developed an eating disorder because they feel like they are fat. FIVE years old… what is our world coming to.  When I read that I felt so bad for them.  And recently a story came out that said that models and dancers have admitted to dipping cotton balls in different juices and then eating them to try and stay skinny for their job. I don’t know about you but just the thought of eating a cotton ball disgusts me.  I hate the texture of them anyways there is no way I would be able to eat them. I think that this subject is something very important and needs to be addressed.  There are kids watching shows on E! and other networks that all they do is criticize celebrities about how they look and how skinny they are or if they or hot or not,  obviously everyone wants to fall into the skinny, fashionable, hot person right?  Or for guys the skinny but muscular hot guy.  I just think its sad that it has gotten this out of hand and still no one is doing anything about it.  

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Alrighty.   SO I called Party City today to check o my order because it STILL hasn’t come I yet and I have been stressing out about it.  They freaking put it on back order and now it won’t be here till Thursday…. What the heck. Someone could have let me know that.  I didn’t even get and email about it or anything.  What if it’s not here by Friiday??  What am I going to do.  Halloween is this weekend and  I still don’t  have a costume.  Needless to say I am not going to order from them ever again.

            Anyways so one of my really close friends ,well its my best friends brother and we are really close, he made some really dumb choices this past weekend and he is taking his anger about it out on everyone.  My other close friend Emily told me about it on Sunday and when I heard what he did I was so shocked!   Now you may think I did the wrong thing here and don’t worry sometimes I think I did too but I told his sister because if she knew something about my sister doing something like this and didn’t tell me  I would be oh so pissed of at her.  Now today Emily calls me super upset and she sayd that he is texting her telling her she ruined his life and he hates her and now he looks like another stupid person from Edgewood.  Welll first off the people he was with told everyone else and Emily, me nor his sister told anyone else but is blaming us for everyone finding out.  Well actually only Emily.  So I think he is pissed at himself and taking it out on us.  OH well don’t do stupid stuff and not man up to it is all I have to say to him.

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Alrighty. Today I watched the episode “trash” on season one of Firefly.  In this episode the crew meet once again with Saffron.  For those of you who don’t know who she is,  she was “married” to Mal and then took over the who ship by using her mad fighting skills and seduction.  She was actually a prostitute and was hired to take the ship over which she almost succeeded at.  In this episode though she is pretty much doing the same thing to one of Mal’s friends.  But then Mal exposed her ways and he left her stranded on some moon somewhere.  But she convinced Mal to help her with a job she had to do and the whole crew was pissed that she was back on the ship after all that she did.  She ended up trying to double-cross them but failed once again.  But when I was watching this I found a scene would fit perfectly in my paper! There is this really nice guy who has lots of money and he is in love with Saffron even though he knows about her ways and everything that she does.  She won’t let him in though because she is so comfortable with the life style she has now that I don’t think she really knows any better or wants to try to make it work.  I thnk she is so insecure with herself that she just does that kind of thing for attention and for people to show some sort of positive attention towards her.  

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Heyy blggy!!  So last night I went to Dayglow. First off we had to take a bus all the way downtown.  There were about 50 drunk kids on there that were being so loud and annoying.  I’m pretty sure I was one of the only sober ones on there. Anyways all the other people on the bus were so mad and the bus driver ended up throwing everyone in white off the bus.  Meaning we had to walk the rest of the way which was almost a mile long.  That was a huge bummer.  Then when we finally got there the line was forever long and it took like an hour to get through.  But once we got inside it was so much fun… for the first half hour.  That place was way too small for the amount of people in there.  I literally couldn’t move and at one point I wasn’t even touching the ground anymore and was being lifted up just from being so close to people.  Then after the paint fell we were ready to get out of there.  We thought that it was just the dance floor that was like that but we were greatly mistaken.  It took us almost a half hour to even get anywhere near the door.  Then everyone was trying to get out at once and the security wouldn’t let anyone out but people kept pushing anyways.  I was like getting crushed and I have huge bruises everywhere.  There was this support poll thing by the door I was pinned there and just started to cry.  Needless to say I did not have a good time.  So words of advice… do NOT go to Dayglow.

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Well hello bloggy!! I have decided you are my new venting system. Ok so these are the problems im having with my paper.  I have like all of the back round information and I have where I want to go with it down, but im having trouble with the so what part, and how to tie it all back together at the end. I don’t know why anyone would care about this subject or even read this voluntarily but its what I choose to do.  Also im afraid I won’t have enough information to fill up all 7 pages.  Im at a bit over 5 right now but I really don’t know what else to say, just like with this blog.  After my meeting yesterday I am completely changing the route im going with this paper so its kind of stressing me out.  Like she said on the first day its hard to throw away something you already worked on and start from scratch.  Meaning an all new thesis and everything.  All new research, all new works cited, all new everything!  Talk about stressful!!  I have some ideas down on paper and a lot of it written up but I still feel like im missing so much, but have no idea what else to write!  Once again just like right now! All my blogs are super random because it seems to be harder and harder to write 250 words of anything!  Im hoping my paper turns out ok but we will see!  Peace out bloggy!

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Well hey there bloggy!! I have no idea what to write about today. Warning this will probably be very random.  Oh I just had these amazing cookies from home.  They are sugar cookies with the best icing on them.  They are made in amish country so you know they are good!  But those made me miss home that much more. (sad face).  I  really miss my family and especially my bed! The bed I have here doesn’t even come close to how comfortable mine is.  And I miss my dogs!  They always made my day whenever I see them!  I know I just went home this past weekend but I already want to go back!!  I know that sounds really bad but I miss it so much! 

            Anyways enough of the sad stuff!  But  Halloween is in a few weeks! I saw someone blogged about what they were going to be!  It took me forever to find a costume I liked and actually brought myself to buy.  I know you all probably don’t care but I needed more to blog about so ill enlighten you on what I’m going to be.  Im being Alice from Alice in Wonderland! And my friend is being the mad hatter.  I think we are going to look so cute! Or at least I hope so!  When my dad asked how Halloween was up here he asked if we trick or treated at like other dorms or off campus.  I was like really dad?  I thought it was hilarious!  Peace bloggy! 

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Ok welll…. What to blog about today?  Hmm.  Oh Glee is on tonight! That is my favorite show on right now by far!  I am actually measuring how long we have been her by how many episodes of Glee have been on T.V.  I look forward to it every Tuesday and I think it is what gets me through the day! Tuesdays are my longest classes each being 2 hours and it sucks.  SO yes, knowing that Glee will me on later that evening helps me to get through it!  I don’t know what I’m going to do once the season is over! 

            Speaking of Glee, that type of thing is something that I wish I had done in high school, be in something like that.  I have always wanted to be able to sing but that is a power I just do not possess.  If someone can sing, I give him or her mad props because I sure can’t.  A lot of my friends were in our school group and they always had so much fun when they practiced and when they went to competitions and such!  I always thought about doing it but I was afraid to try out and embarrass myself so I didn’t think that was for me.  I actually almost did the school musical but decided against it at the last second.  Once again something I regret.  I know this is a random blog but nothing in my life is all that exciting right now so I am struggling for things to blog about! 

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Okk well I think today we get to blog about whatever we want again so here goes nothing! Does anyone else feel super stressed right now?  All I have felt the last 2 weeks is stress and I know it’s probably not good.  I actually was watching a episode of House today and he was talking about how stressed he has been and I thought it was weird that I was going to blog about that and it was on.  I’m hoping the next few weeks won’t be so bad now that the first wave of midterms is done and over with.  Also I think once our paper.  I have the beginnings of one but I can’t develop it enough to where it is a full on argument.  So if any of you read my blog that I shared my thesis on if you could give any suggestions that would be greatly appreciated!  But anyways I’m thinking about changing my major too so that might be stressing me out as well.  I have no idea what I want to change it to though and I have no idea what I want to do with my life anymore!  It was education but I don’ t think I could teach for the next 30 years of my life.  Not that I don’t think I could do it,  I just don’t think I would enjoy it as much as I thought I would.  Sorry if this is really boring but I needed to vent and I’m hoping that it’ll help me distress a little!! Thanks for listening to me!!  

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Hello Bloggy!!  My weekend at home was pretty awesome!  I got to go shopping and see all my high school friends.  I missed them a whole lot.  Oh and my high school football team won, that was my dad’s 150^th win for his career so far!  Needless to say he was very happy that night.  I also got to see my absolute best friend on Saturday.  I have missed her soo much.  But today when I came back I came with way more than what I left with!!   I had to use one of the carts that everyone used for move in; it was slightly embarrassing.   And it was mostly food so I looked very hungry to people watching!  Anyways, Obama is coming to the oval today and I haven’t decided whether of not I should fight the lines and go.  On the one hand he is the president and this is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity and on the other the lines are crazy and there are snipers everywhere, they could be anywhere and that makes me uncomfortable.  What if one accidentally fires at me!! That would be very bad for me.  I don’t know those are the types of things that go through my mind about those types of things.  And once again the line thing really makes me just want to say screw it I don’t want to go now.  Sorry in advance for how random this blog is!  Goodbye until tomorrow bloggy!  

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Comfort.  This is the theme for the day.  I have slept for 12 hours in my own bed without waking up once to overhead lights at 4 am, slamming doors, or just the sounds of good clean fun in the hallway.  Seeing old friends, and by old I mean that we have been together since kindergarten – literally, is just so incredibly relaxing.  Catching up on how their lives have been going for the last month, how none of us was prepared to go to college quite as much as we thought we were, very comforting to know that we can all be completely honest with one another about how similar our experiences really are.  Of course it is pretty difficult to put something over on people who know absolutely everything there is to know about you (good and bad), we couldn’t hide something if we tried because we would certainly be called out on it!

As I said yesterday, I was off to my Dad’s game last night and was pretty sure that the reason the season hadn’t been going very well is because I hadn’t been there.  Thank goodness they won or I would have been completely deflated!  I also want to take this opportunity to congratulate my Dad on his 150^th head-coaching win at our high school.  We all sort of forgot that it was a possibility, including him, so imagine our surprise that I was able to share this great accomplishment with him last night too!  There is some great comfort at my house this weekend because we are riding the high of a victory for this week, I am glad I am not a super competitive person.  Competitive people, like him, don’t take losing very well until the next Friday night when the chance finally comes to put things right!

Off to drive my car for the first time in 4 weeks.  What comfort there is in being able to go where I want without wondering if I can get there by walking!!!  Life at OSU is great, but it sure does make me appreciate the simple comforts of home that I have taken for granted!

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I think today is the day that we get to blog about whatever we want!  So today I”m  really excited to be going home this weekend.  I haven’t seen my family in like almost a month and I don’t like that very much! The most I’ve gone without seeing my family is like maybe 2 weeks this summer. I miss my mom like crazy and she is my best friend!!  I think she knows more about my guy problems than my actual best friend that is my age knows.  Of course I have been entirely too busy to even have any guy problems since being in Columbus, so maybe that is a good thing! 

As I said in my first blog,   I haven’t missed a  football game since I was born until I came here 4 weeks ago.  So today I finally get to go to one this season J.  I’m very excited to see all of my friends that are lower classmen, well now they aren’t  but anyway I’m really excited to see them!!   They haven’t been having a very good season, and my father is convinced that it is the bad luck of not having me there to cheer on the cougars!  I think I will allow him to think that for as long as it lasts.   I am anxious to hear about the college experiences of my friends.  I know that we thought we really worked hard in high school, but we had no idea what studying was until moving on to the various colleges we all chose.  Should be a great weekend!

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In Firefly, Saffron showed that through the frailties of her victims,  a skilled seducer can tempt and entice others into behavioral choices they would not normally make.  This is the thesis statement for my paper.  In my paper I’m pretty much going throught the three significant scenes in the show and showing how and what type of seduction they used.  I found this book on the internet and it was called The Art of Seduction.  In this book it talks about how there is 3 different types of seduction and what you do when you perform each type. Siren, ideal lover, and the natural are the three types of seduction.  Throughout this show she used all three types on three different people.  The “siren” is like when you act so innocent and make the other forget all of their troubles and about life in general.  Then she uses the “ideal lover” which is showing how much a person respects them by comparing them to someone they are close to that they feel inadequate too.  She becomes Wash’s perfect soul mate.   The last one is the “natural” seduction.  This is when the person acts like they are the more inferior one in the relationship and talks the other person up, makes them feel like they are more special than others.  Those are they three main types and pretty much what my paper is based on.  The research has been so cool and I actually enjoy learning about this, I find it so interesting.  

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In Firefly, Saffron showed that through the frailties of her victims,  a skilled seducer can tempt and entice others into behavioral choices they would not normally make.  This is the thesis statement for my paper.  In my paper I’m pretty much going throught the three significant scenes in the show and showing how and what type of seduction they used.  I found this book on the internet and it was called The Art of Seduction.  In this book it talks about how there is 3 different types of seduction and what you do when you perform each type. Siren, ideal lover, and the natural are the three types of seduction.  Throughout this show she used all three types on three different people.  The “siren” is like when you act so innocent and make the other forget all of their troubles and about life in general.  Then she uses the “ideal lover” which is showing how much a person respects them by comparing them to someone they are close to that they feel inadequate too.  She becomes Wash’s perfect soul mate.   The last one is the “natural” seduction.  This is when the person acts like they are the more inferior one in the relationship and talks the other person up, makes them feel like they are more special than others.  Those are they three main types and pretty much what my paper is based on.  The research has been so cool and I actually enjoy learning about this, I find it so interesting.  

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“When someone shows us attention or behaves toward us in a way that invites us to feel somewhat special, we almost never think that they’re doing so because there’s something they want. Rather, we’d like to think there’s something really remarkable about us that is motivating the person to behave that way.”   Pretty much what this is saying is that when people show us attention it’s because they see us as good and nice people, something about us is different.  But in some if not most cases they are only showing interest in us for things they want… like sex.   An example would be creeper boys as parties, everyone has come into contact with one (sorry boys but some of you out there are creepy).   They try and like win girls over and “rub them the right way” just to try and get in their pants later that night.  When I read this I was like oh my god that is sooo true!! An example I think of when girls are guilty of this is if we walk into a room and try and find a guy to talk to, we aren’t going to go to one that we aren’t attracted to.  We will most likely go to one we find attractive and hope he isn’t a jerk.  I know I’m guilty of this. 

George, Simon. "Seduction as a Manipulation Tactic." Online Therapy, Counselling & Mental Health Resources. 13 Apr. 2009. Web. 13 Oct. 2010. <http://counsellingresource.com/features/2009/04/13/seduction-as-manipulation-tactic/>.

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“ Sexual desire is deeply rooted in our genes and biology, but as we’ll see, it’s also influenced by social and cultural factors.” (Psychology, 477)  I liked this quote because in every blog I do I seem to come back to this concept (as you can clearly see).  In this part in my book I read about how the “norm” about sex is different in every culture and society.  I found a lot of them very intriguing.   Like in one country (somewhere in Africa) the women will stick her finger in the mans’ ear to indicate arousal?  I found that very interesting.  I don’t know how they came up with that one but it’s very different!  And that is completely normal there; if someone did that here they would think they are getting a wet willy or something.  It also said some interesting things that don’t really go with my paper but I’m trying to figure out how to work it all in,  it said that when we get into a relationship we base the beginning off of our attraction to them and their looks.  I thought about my past relationships and found this to be true (shamefully).  It also said people with more headaches then to have more sexual desire, just a random fact for you!  It’s crazy how right people are about hose types of things!  Psychology tens to hit the nail on the head.  Welp goodnight bloggy!!

Hackney-Hanson, Amy, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven J. Lynn, Laura L. Namy, and Nancy Jean. Woolf. "Chapter 11 Emotion and Motivation." Grade Aid for Lilienfeld, Lynn, Namy, and Woolf Psychology: from Inquiry to Understanding. Boston: Pearson/A and B, 2009. Print

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The article I read today was about sex in our society in the present.  It started off by giving a brief overview of how sex has been view up until today.  It said one reason why we keep it so private is because it involves lust and therefore we feel the need to hide it.  We some what feel ashamed about it and feel the need to keep that part of our lives private from the rest of the world, some do that more than others.   Some people view it as obscene and then some just embrace it.  The ones that embrace it are usually viewed as “whores” or “sluts” by our society today and in the past.  Like my blog from yesterday, I think in the future embracing it is going to be less of a big deal to people than it is now.   I think this because of things I said yesterday and because of things like play boy are being televised and obviously people are watching or they wouldn’t still be on television.  And for that matter Play Boy wouldn’t still be around, and not still be growing nationally and internationally.  Also more and more celebrities are exposing more in there work and in real life because it helps them get attention from fans, because it is what the fans want.  Take Miley Cyrus for intense, she went from Hannah Montana to baring it all in her music videos and album covers.  Just a few examples.

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The article I read today was about sex in the future.  They have been, I guess, tracing the spread of HIV and STD’S to see how common it is in certain cultures and cliques through the years.  I thought that was pretty cool.  And then it went on to say about how they have been asking about enjoyment from men in a relationship and men separated or single.   It shows that men in a relationship or married have more enjoyment than those you are separated or single.  In case you were wondering about that! Anyways it didn’t give me as much information about my topic as I was hoping it would.  I expected more when I skimmed it earlier. But from that article and in my own opinion I have come up  with my own idea about sex in the future.  I think it’s not going to be made a big of a deal as it is being made now and in the past.  Think about it,  in like 50 something years it has went from ankle being sexy to something completely different being sexy now.  I think people are going to keep starting younger and do it way more than they do now.  It’s sad to admit but I think it’s true.  My sister is a freshman in high school and there are girls in her grade that have already slept with multiple people, that’s something I couldn’t say my freshman year.  Like I said I think sex isn’t going to be as big of a deal in the future and it will just be part of the norm.  

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So the article I read today was from my psychology book.  I had the question, how does sex have to do with us psychologically?  Like I said before I looked in my book to find the answer (very convenient I’m in psychology class).  It said that we are like “wired” to want sex.  Our bodies and mind know thorough instinct that we need to have sex to survive.  It just so happens that it was made to be pleasurable so there would be less worry about our human species going extinct. I guess we got lucky that way.  But what I don’t understand if we area supposed to do that, why is it looked down upon in society so much?  Yeah people are doing it way earlier then they should I do admit, but I felt like anytime it is brought up that the person is automatically judged and looked down upon.  I know some don’t agree with it before marriage but some don’t agree with it at all.  Like nuns for example, obviously if god didn’t want us to do it he wouldn’t of made that necessary for survival.  Are you following me??  So not doing it for him doesn’t seem logical.  I don’t know I’m kind of rambling now.  P.S I hope none of you think because this is what I’m doing my paper on that I’m like all about that or anything.  I promise I’m not I just found the topic intriguing.  Just an F.Y.I!

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Question one: Why do people use sex appeal in advertising?

Question two: How does sex have to do with human psychologically?

Question three: How has sex changed our society today?

Question four: How will sex be portrayed in the future?

Sites Used

Robertson, Shawna. "Sex Appeal in Advertising Has Negative Effects." Web. <http://www.mnstate.edu/cmst/cmst100/_Media/advertising.pdf>.

 Hirschfeld, Magnus. "Sex and Society." The Continuum Publishing Company, 1983. Web. 7 Oct. 2010. <http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/ATLAS_EN/html/sex_and_society.html>.

K. Wellings, and J. Cleland. "Surveys on Sexual Health: Recent Developments and Future Directions." National Center Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Aug. 2001. Web. 7 Oct. 2010. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1744341/>.

Hackney-Hanson, Amy, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven J. Lynn, Laura L. Namy, and Nancy Jean. Woolf. "Chapter 11 Emotion and Motivation." Grade Aid for Lilienfeld, Lynn, Namy, and Woolf Psychology: from Inquiry to Understanding. Boston: Pearson/A and B, 2009. Print.

blog 14. Paper

I’m doing my paper on the episode of Firefly called “Our Mrs. Reynolds’s” .  This one is the one that I blogged about a few nights ago.  It’s when the ship got taken over by an companion who seduced everyone and then took advantage by knocking them all out and getting away.  She seduced Mal by saying she just wanted her wedding night and it shouldn’t bet too much to ask for.   She tried to seduce Walsh but It didn’t work because he is very loyal to his wife. She ended up just kicking him in the head to get him knocked out.   And then she tried to seduce Inara you is an experienced companion and eventually caught on to her game.  I’m going to do my paper on the seduction and how it can be used to get what we want and in a more real world sense how it is a huge paper of our society.  It seems as though sex in presented in our everyday lives all of the time.  Also people have made huge empires from selling things that have to do with sex.  For intense Playboy has become internationally popular.  And not only do people use it to get what they want but we area actually psychologically wired to want sex.  Out bodies know we need to reproduce to live and our subconscious actually wants it.  The 2 main things we need in our life is food and sex and that is it.  

BLog 13. False Idols

Today I watched Jaynestown on Season one of Firefly.  This episode was about a planet of “mudders” that idolized Jayne for dropping a ton of money on them.  Little did they know Jayne wasn’t planning on doing so, he was going to keep it for himself.  But the ship was too heavy so him and his friend had to start dumping things off of the ship.  First went non-essentials then because Jayne wanted the money he pushed out his friend.  After doing so he realized that he had to push the money out as well so he could fly.  Years later he came back to statues of him and the people singing songs about him and he has no idea why.  He also came back to his friend that he pushed out of the plane, need I say what his friend tried to do. 

            This got me thinking; they pretty much made Jayne into a false idol.  The worshiped him and made songs about him and made him into their “god” in a way.  Which as we know is considered a sin in the eyes of god.   But at the end of the day it seemed that this I what got them through.  Having faith in him seemed to keep their spirits up. So in this case was it wrong?  If it got them through the day are they sinners?  Then I started thinking about this more, we do the same thing almost everyday.  We do it with celebrities and athletes and other leaders.  Even with Jesus in my town!  We had a huge statue of Jesus in front of a church that actually recently was struck by lightening and burned to the ground.  If that isn’t enough of a sign that what we did was wrong then I don’t know what is.  But don’t worry they are rebuilding it…. Smart.  

Special Powers?

            Today I watched the episode “Our Mrs. Reynolds’s” from season one of Firefly.  In this show there was a girl who was “married” to Mal as a token of a planets appreciation.  Since the planet had nothing else to offer they offered him a suitable wife, or so he thought. The girl ended up being a registered companion who used the powers of seduction to take over Serenity.  She used a narcotic on Mal so that when he kissed er he fell asleep or was knocked out,  she kicked Wlash in the head and knocked him out,  And tried to seduce Inara but it didn’t work.  The only reason Inara got knocked out is because she kissed Mal (finally).  Eventually she rerouted them to a place that was going to scrap the ship and kill everyone inside.  But of course the crew found a way to get around all that and come out safely.  Mal ended up finding the companion and let her live but did punch her in the face.             

            After watching this I was thinking, are the powers of seduction really that strong?  In society can you pretty much get whatever you want by using those powers?  When you think about it that could possibly be true.  How many times in movies and in real life have people been won over by seduction and the possibility of engaging in intercourse.  I seems like a lot of people will do anything just to be able to do this.  This specific thing drives some people’s lives.  So it would be pretty easy to win people over using these powers.  

Firefly Episode 4

Okk so today I watched the forth episode of Firefly.   Do you guys remember when we talked about how Inara and Mal had a “thing” but won’t get together?  Well this episode definitely showed that they had something for each other.  She was going to go live with this guy and be his personal companion and Mal actually got the balls to stand up and say that she shouldn’t go!  I was so excited that he did that, I always knew he lilked her a lot.  Remember in elementary and even maybe middle school when guys would be mean to the girls that they had a crush on?  I feel like that is exactly what is going on here.  I think he just needs to grow up (he is a big boy now) and tell her that he likes and or loves her.  That would make the show so much better.  Oh and then how he defended her honor and punched that guy in the face.. If he could be any more obvious J.   Anyways I know Mal thinks that his job is more respectable and thinks that he is above Inara, but when he needed to sword fight for his life it was Inara who knew how to do it and had to teach him.   I feel that I something that Mal should’ve known how to do already.  She so could’ve won if her and him fought, she wouldn’t even break a sweat which is awesome for a women! 

Episode 8

All right today I watched the eight episode of Firefly.  I was very excited to see how the characters came together to live on the ship.  As you probably remember from my earlier blog that is something that I wanted to figure out!    Anyways in this episode the ship Serenity under goes a series of unfortunate events.  Something catches on fire,  then they shot almost all of their oxygen out trying to get rid of the fire, then they ended up having to ship everyone but Mal out on other ships because there was no heat or oxygen to support them all.  I felt so bad for him actually. L

            Then captain Mal said something during the show.  He said, “ every body dies alone”.  Once again I think that what he said is not correct at all.  I don’t think that people all die alone.  Loved ones and people who care for them surround most.  But then it lead me to thinking maybe we do die alone.  I say this because you are probably the only one that’s going through the pain and or suffering.  No one else is about to die, so technically you are alone in that sense.  You aren’t alone physically but you are alone mentally. And then at the end when captain Mal was about to die everyone came back.  When he woke up he was afraid to fall back asleep because he didn’t want to wake up alone. That was kind of ironic if you ask me.  

Episode 5 of Firefly!

Today I watched the fifth episode of Firefly.   There was a quote by Kaylee that said, “ If you cant think much of this life, then you can’t think much of those who choose it”.   When I thought of this quote a little more I started to think of jobs I didn’t much approve of.  Why do people choose these lives?  Why do they find it acceptable to lead these lives?  These questions brought me to think of which lives I didn’t much think of.   There are many things in life that I don’t approve of, but that doesn’t mean that the lives that those particular people choose is bad.  It just means that that isn’t the life I would choose for myself.  It isn’t the life that I would want to lead. 

            Then later on in the show Captain Mal once again made a decision that made me question his morals.  He left River and Simon back at the one planet they were on with the cows. Earlier he wouldn’t leave a crewmember behind but now he is just like we will just leave them, it doesn’t matter.  Well I think it matters very much!   Once you are dedicated to a crew you just don’t leave them, especially when the one person is the only doctor you have on your ship!  And one reason that he left is because he needed to find a doctor?  That isn’t the smartest idea ever. It seems that the more I watch this show, the more I question the morals of Captain Mal..