Introduction

My name is Maria Harding, I am from a little town called Churchtown which is right outside of Marietta. I am majoring Communication Science and Disorders, and plan on getting my masters in speech pathology, and hopefully work with kids. I love to cook even though I not the best at it, but I believe that practice makes perfect.

hotspots

While reading the essay, a couple of "hotspots" stood out to me. The first hotspot was on page 131. When I read "a woman who kills her male partner can plead Battered Woman's Syndrome, a man who kills (or even defends himself against) a violent female partner cannot plead the Battered Man's Syndrome" I disagreed immediately. I think it's unfair and if a male is treated by a woman the same way a woman was treated by a male, he should definitley have a right to plead the same syndrome just in reverse. I kind of think it's funny how people are willing to forget that men have feelings too and don't like being taken advantage of just like anyone else. No one should be abused and be able to get away with it like the women may be able to. Violent isn't okay for a woman to act, it isn't okay for anyone to act that way. Another "hotspot" that caught my eye was on page 132. Marilyn French clearly stated that, "All men are rapists and that's all they are." This again just surprises me. I'm surprised that a woman would have the nerve to say this out loud. It sounds like Marily French as been abused more than once. If that's the case, then maybe the problem is her and she needs to realize it. I think it's impossible that she can't find one good thing about a man. Doesn't she have children? Doesn't she have nieces or nephews? All of those children took a man to be here. I also read "There is No Unmarked Woman" by Deborah Tannen. On page 144, Ralph Fasold says that the unmarked sex is really the females. I think this is one of my "hotspots" because it is a complete 180 degree turn from the authors point. What I found the most interesting was that certain species only reproduce females, and there aren't any species that can produce only males. I didn't know that sexism went into this much detail. My last "hotspot" is on page 145. This is when the author said she had been on a televison show after publishing her book. The host asked the audience if her book was male-bashing, and a man in the audience shook his head yes. The host called on him and the man said that he agreed with everything the book said about men and likewise with women. Then she asked why he thought she was male bashing then, and he said "because she's a women and she's talking about men." I guess I hadn't realized that even speaking about men is considered male-bashing now or even that some men think like that. I found it odd that the man agreed with everything the book said, then he easily said that it was still male-bashing.

Alayna!

Hi, my name is Alayna Vencill and I'm from Dayton, Ohio. It's about a two and a half hour drive, that I hate. I'm undecided in the college of Arts & Sciences. When I change it, I think it'll be to Political Science. I played volleyball and softball in high school. I have a dog, Emma, who I treat like my daughter. She's the cutest :) I have a twin brother, a younger brother, and a sister. My parents and friends mean the world to me.

In Eugene Augusts' “Real Men Don’t: Anti Male Bias in English” my first Hot spot was chosen on page 131. “Male victims are simply not news; women ( and children) victims are”. This statement is surprisingly not very shocking to me. Just from watching the news when woman and children are hurt it is usually talked about more specifically then when men are hurt. I believe that every person is equal and when putting more emphasis on woman then on men in positive and negative ways it is gender discrimination. This quotation is very thought provoking to me and made me really think about how true it really is. My second hot spot is found on page 139. Eugene decided to close his passage with this sentence and it made me question it. “ The more we make men the enemy; the more they will have to behave like the enemy”. We have so many negative connotations towards men. When we were talking about the words like murder and rapist in class almost everyone said it was a more male prominent word. This quotation made me think what if everyone stopped putting the image of negativity towards males in their heads? I can only imagine if this would stop a lot of the war and murder and bad things going on in the world today.
In the piece “ There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tannen my first hot spot was found on page 142. “ There is no unmarked woman”. This sentence sums up the whole passage. I completely agree with this sentence and don’t think i have ever thought so much about it before i read this. Every woman is judged based on how they present themselves. Woman need to stop judging other woman it is crazy the amount of pressure we put on each other to fit a stereotype. This sentence really made me think how much i need to stop judging others because i don’t want to be judged myself. “Woman Can’t even fill out a form without telling a story about themselves”. I completely agree with this statement. I think it is so unfair that when labeling a woman there are so many different choices that tell others if they are single or married, when mens don’t tell anything about there relationship status. If woman want others to know there relationship status they will tell others.I thought this sentence was very funny when I read it because i have thought about this for a while now and my opinion is still the same. Men are lucky that they only have one main label when a woman’s gives personal information.

Writing Log 1B

“Real Men Don’t: Anti-Male Bias in English” by Eugene August was talking about how males in our society are looked down upon because of the way we categorize them and their actions. Men are seen as the grimy ones in each relationship because they are more commonly the tougher ones who aren’t scared to do anything. Eugene August wants us to believe that the stereotypes towards males in our society are harmful to them and their masculinity. In the other reading, “There is No Unmarked Woman”, by Deborah Tannen has a different view towards males and women. In this essay, Tannen is talking about how a woman cannot be unmarked like a man. In other words, a male doesn’t have to live up to all the things women have to. Women when getting dressed think they are just getting dressed in what they feel like wearing, but didn’t know that people will be judging them based on what they are wearing. In this essay I feel like Tannen is saying that men have it easier in life, whereas Eugene August is saying that males have a hard life.

One on the “hotspots” I chose to talk about from Eugene August’s essay was “A boy quickly learns that, while it is usually acceptable for girls to be tomboys, God forbid that he should be a sissy” (Project 132-133). This “hotspot” stuck out to me because when thinking of a girl being called a tomboy, I realized that girls don’t take that offensive. When a guy is being called a sissy, it is offensive to them because it questions their masculinity. Guys are looked at to be the stronger of the sexes, and when someone calls a boy a sissy, that means that they are not strong. People can be called a sissy when they don’t meet the expectations of their friends or people they may come in contact with. This is a strong message because if guys are continued to be called names, then it can hurt them in the long run. The other “hotspot” I chose to talk about from this essay was, “As the nursery rhyme tells children, little girls are made of “sugar and spice and all that’s nice,” while little boys are made of “frogs and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails,” (Project 133). If we are talking about how male stereotypes can be harmful to males in the future, then maybe we should be taught these nursery rhymes which teach as kids that mean are slimy. I remember when I was younger and my dad told me this nursery rhyme (I grew up with my dad my whole life, my mother didn’t have custody of us), we even had a magnet on our fridge that said this too. When children are younger they believe everything that they are told, whether it is true or not. Being gullible at a young age and hearing these things doesn’t help because when they grow up they are going to remember what they were taught by their parents.

When I was reading the other essay, I was confused at first. A “hotspot” I chose to talk about from this essay is “The men’s styles were unmarked”, (Project 141). Deborah was at a work conference and she began to realize that she was scrutinizing only the women and what they looked like. The men were “unmarked”, this meaning that men don’t have to worry about what they look like and what clothes they are wearing and what message that tells people. “There is no unmarked woman”, (Project 142). When women get up in the morning and get ready for the day, little do they know that people are going to be judging them based off of their appearance. The type of clothes women wear say something about them, tight clothes say a women wants attention, while baggy and loose clothes put off the message that the women doesn’t care for herself. Whether or not these messages are true, people perceive them to be the truth. Women don’t have the option to be standard there is no haircut that is standard for a women, when people look at a woman’s hair cut they can talk about the length, whether or not there are highlights or whether the girl has layers. For a man, I agree that yes there is a standard male and they don’t have to work as hard on their appearance that we women have to.

When thinking about a moment in my life when I felt I didn’t fit in, was when I was 7 years old with my brother and his friends. We were all outside about to play a game of kickball. Nobody wanted me on their team because they felt that I was not going to be a good teammate simply because I was a girl. They viewed me as too young and weak, that I wouldn’t be able to kick the ball far enough to get a homerun. When the team picking began I was so nervous because I was already known as “Scott’s little sister”, no one called me by my name just the little sister. Everyone else got picked and then it came to me, I ended up being on my brothers team because he had to pick me or else no one would. It was sad to me to know that nobody wanted me on their team just because I was a girl and they were all boys. My brother isn’t even that much older than me, about two years older, so it wasn’t that he knew more about the game than me. When I was in this situation I was not in danger or anything, but it hurt to know that because I was a girl, the other kids thought I couldn’t do anything besides play with Barbie’s. Girls can do anything that guys can do, sometimes not to the same extent but in some cases even better. Bases on this experience I felt as though I wasn’t capable of doing the same things my brother and his friends could do. No longer would I try and play games with them outside, I would just sit and my room and play with myself. When looking back at this experience I realized that I am capable of doing anything anyone else can do if I put my mind to it. Since the day I was born, I was being compared to the other kids in my family. When my aunts and uncles would compare me to other people, I would become sad because I am my own person, and do things the way I want to do them. Another time in my past where I felt in the wrong place was when I was constantly being compared to my cousin Lanissa. Lanissa and I were both blonde hair blue eyed dancers. Lanissa was older than me and had been dancing longer than me, but when I reached the competition stage, all of her friend would call me “Lanissa’s cousin”. They wouldn’t call me Amber because they only knew me as her cousin. Even though I was just as good of a dancer as her, I was not allowed to be in any of her classes. At home, every Sunday was family day and everyone would come over to our house and eat. People would always compare me to Lanissa and say that she was skinnier than me or had longer hair than me. All of this comparing me to Lanissa stuff made me very hesitant to like Lanissa as I was growing up. When we both had gotten to our teenage years, we were not nice to one another because all we knew what to do was to compete with each other and to try and outdo one another, even until the day Lanissa committed suicide. The night Lanissa committed suicide I told my dad I didn’t want her living with us anymore because I hated her. The next morning I woke up to police officers asking me if a picture of a girl hanging was her. To this day I feel horrible for the way I acted towards her, and I know that if she were still living I would apologize for everything I said or did to her. I think about her daily and her taking her own life has changed the person who I am today.

The Amber Teague

Hello, my name is Amber Teague and I am from Dublin, Ohio. Dublin is about an hour and half away from Athens, so it is close enough to see my family, but far enough away where I can try living on my own. My major is pre-early childhood education, I love little kids and that is why I would like to become a kindergarten teacher as soon as I graduate. I have been a dancer since I was two years old and have been competing with dance since the age of seven. I am the type of person who speaks their mind a lot, which can lead to some problems occasionally. Back at home, we have three dogs and three cats, we are a very loving pet family. I have one older brother, who is 21. My family means a lot to me and recently my cousin passed away leaving me to be the only girl left in the Teague family. I am excited for this class and I love OU! :)

Introduction

Hello, my name is Melissa Moffitt. I am from a very small town called Lagrange. It is in the Cleveland area. I am currently undecided but I am declaring my major soon. It is Communication Sceinces and Disorders. After college, I will attend graduate school for speech pathology. I would love to work with the elderly or with children with language disorders. I love to dance, and I love music. I danced on a hip hop dance team in high school and I would love to do something like that again. I love OU.

Intro-Tori

Hi, my name is Tori Carras and I am from Bay Village, Ohio which is near Cleveland. I am currently a Communications Studies major but I am also very interested in going somewhere with Public Relations. I am a member of the community service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega on campus, I work at Nelson Dining Hall, and I will soon be starting up another season of intramural volleyball which I am very excited about! I always love to have a good time and if laughing is considered a hobby, I would have to say that it would be one of mine, along with watching movies, taking photographs, playing sports, dancing, singing, vacationing, shopping, eating, and most importantly spending time with my family and friends. I have two brothers and a sister that mean the world to me, along with my parents, and my friends.

All About Me-Megan

My name is Megan Vaccarella and I am from columbus, Ohio. I am studying Exercise Physiology and want to be a Physical Therapist someday. I'm in the sorority ALpha Xi Delta and I love it. I also used to play soccer for 10 years. I love Ohio University.

Introduction

My name is Amber Shivak. I am a freshman here at Ohio University and I couldn't be happier about it! I am studying special education in the area of moderate to intensive. I love children and helping other people out, which is why I have chosen to go into the education field. I am a horrible writer but hope that this course really helps me out to benefit me in the future! So far I am loving my college experience and am really looking forward to spring quarter!

Introduction

Hello, my name is Ellis Battista and I am from a small town in north eastern Ohio called Minerva. my major is Integrated Science in the College of Education. Something interesting about myself is that I love to play basketball. I also enjoy hanging out with my friends and family.

Introduction

My name is Ben Ulle. I'm from Mentor, Ohio and I'm a Computer Science major. I am skilled with computers and other machines, as I grew up with them my entire life. In high school I was president of the technology club, as well as worked on our robotics team. Last year, our team took first place in Case Western Reserve's robotics competition. If you couldn't tell from my previous statements, I'm a huge nerd. I enjoy everything a stereotypical nerd would enjoy, be it Star Wars or Half-Life, I like most of it. There are exceptions, such as I don't like anime. I don't hate anime, it's just not my thing. Think whatever you want about me, just know that I really don't care, I;m not going to change who I am to seek your approval. If you want to be Facebook friends, feel free to request me, but I may not accept it for a while as I rarely go on Facebook.

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My name is Nader Roheny. I'm from Westlake, Ohio and I just can't decide on major. All I want to be in life is happy. I enjoy art, science, and spirituality of all kinds. I play guitar and hope to somehow end up not having to finish college, so I can play music in a band forever. I also like the idea of going to medical school. I really hope I wrote enough to get full points for this blog.

A little bit about myself

My name is Patrick Clark. I’m from Beavercreek Ohio, right next to Dayton. I’m currently a major in Computer Science, but I’m switching to Management Information Systems next quarter. My talents include dressing up and going out and getting rowdy, which coincidentally is also probably my favorite thing to do, but I’m also a good student and always make sure I have my homework done on time, because in the future I want to make bank so that I can afford yacht’s, Lamborghini’s, and whatever my future super model hot wife will expect me to buy for her. To know more just go to my Myspace profile and read my about me.

Who Am I

Hi! My name is Julie Toth. I am from a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio called Bay Village. My roommate is Tori Carras who is also in our english class. I am a pre-nursing major right now and will be applying to the nursing major at the beginning of the month. In the future I would like to be a labor and delivery nurse. I have been dancing since i was three years old and I would really love to continue dancing throughout my life. I enjoy hanging out with my friends and spending time with my family.