Pages 309-322
My groups portion of the essay touched on the stereotypes regarding gender roles. Selfe starts this paragraph off by describing an advertisement with a beautiful woman in front of a monitor, comparing the beauty of a woman with the beauty of this monitor. She then moves on to another advertisement where they have gone a little further and used a woman in a "seductress" role to sell the monitor. Both ways show the traditional "roles" of women in the media. Men are portrayed in suits with ties, this has been the norm since the 50's. Men have always been the workers and outside of work they are portrayed as "bikers," "nerds" and "sex machines."
Advertising and media influence our gender roles. Outside influences such as jobs and education also stereotype gender roles. We seem to be so advanced in technology yet our attitudes towards diversity and stereotypes are still stuck in the 50's. We need to move forward culturally rather than just technological.
When describing the ads and reasoning behind the gender roles, Selfe says this, "In these ads, we see reflected the roles that our culture can imagine women playing in relation to technology." We hear the same old stories of men and women, that we are used to seeing the woman play the part of the mother or seductress and the man as the bread winner, biker, and nerd. This is then moved to the media where it is continuously reminding us of gender roles.
I believe it is each person's responsibility to break out of molds we have been placed in years ago and move ahead in a new cultural direction.
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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
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