Back in Black...and White

I'll admit that I am one of those people who say African-American more often than Black. Thinking on the subject, I suppose it's because I do not want to offend anyone but it was put in my head by society that describing someone as being black is wrong or offensive. So the only other thing that I could think of to say was African-American. Now society is saying that it too is offensive and/or wrong because not all black people are from Africa. Thinking about it though, I think it would have been more incorrect to call all black people African-American as opposed to black because of the origins. That's what black people are though; black. Just like white people are white so why can't we just leave it at that? White people aren't picky about how you identify them, society just calls them white. Besides, aren't things easier in terms of black and white?

Chapter 12: Pronography

This chapter was also a good one. I agree with a lot of it as well but would like to add onto the part about the images of women giving men the power. While that is true in most ways, women also have the power when they are being seductive to control men, as long as they aren't submissive. Even though this isn't really a dignifying thing or even a good thing to do, women's bodies can be used as tools to have power over men. It is still sexist though and can be degrading. And unfortunately, the stereotype of sexy women being very skinny and having nice-sized "assets" is what people want. We definitely live in a world where sex sells.

Chapter 8

I like this chapter. It is full of information that I never really thought about before but makes perfect sense. I agree that the sexual content of television commercials impacts early adolescents by having them act out what they see on TV. What they see on television leaves images in there impressionable minds and influences some of their actions and decisions in real life. I also agree that television and commercial programmers do not do much to portray the negative consequences of sexual behavior. Even though there are devices that can block shows that are not suitable for kids, there are still commercial ads that contain plenty of sexuality. But the media and our world is very complicated and always will be.