Approach to The Final Web Essay

The final web-essay totally loses me, and I have no idea what is going on with that.   I am still trying to figure out how to create a web-site, and I definitely need spend more time and do some research.  I do want to talk bout the beauty image about the body size, and I will work on how people lose their weights /fats. I hope to know both the general ways and the terrible or strange methods people adopted, such as by liposuction, diuretic, by-pass in the stomach. Also, I want to analysis the following outcomes with  these “unhealthy” weights lose methods.

Kinky

Kinky

“They decide to exchange heads.

Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin over Ken’s bulging neck socket. His wide aw line jostles atop his girlfriend’s body, loosely, like one of those nodding novelty dogs destined o gaze from the back windows of car.

The two dolls chase each other around the orange Country Camper unsure what they’ll do when they’re within touching distance…..”

Barbie's Queer Accessories (pp. 47)

“This feature of Barbie novels surprised me. One might view Barbie's extracurricular dating as a parent-approved lesson about how high school girls are too young to go steady. Barbie's flirtations are innocent enough, all talk and no action, and short-lived; she always comes home without getting pinned, in either sense.”

Almost done~~

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Voodoo Silences

    “ I am locked in my room, so no one can bother me, no one can interrupt this world I’m making. Have to use my Malibu Barbie as the heroine in this story because Talking Barbie’s dead. Besides, she wasn’t usually in these games. She talked to me. Like a pet bird. This silent ones work better for stories because then I make it all up myself.” From this quote, I can feel how important the Talking Barbie means to Sharon. In the fake Barbie’s world, Sharon will never feel lonely and there nothing can disturb the happiness between them. Sharon and Barbie company each other and talk with each other. Future more, the quote can reflex the inner motions of Sharon. Though she is only eight-year old girl, she feels t lonely and she hopes to be cared by her farter.

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Delicious & Amazing Chinese food

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Intimate Enemies

         I am so sorry about Jennifer’s terrible allergic experiences with food. It is challenge for me to imagine what my world would be if I would forced to stop eating any yummy snacks containing eggs or nuts, such as cake, pasta, or cookies. The worse is that if I dare to disobey the rule, I would be punished by scarifying my life!

This is unfair. Yet, it is the over-excited body immunity system that teaches Jennifer to care more about her life and let her understand how precious and fragile the life is. In the war with her over-sensitive body, Jennifer never stops struggling, and she even learnt more and did better than she could. Rather than complaining the unfair or losing the confidence, Jennifer became far positive and stronger, which are really admirable. I like this reading because her courage deeply impressed me. I definitely should learn her courage. “I cant’s simply be furious with my destiny. What hasn’t killed me has made me stronger— much stronger. I pick my fights well and often……” I like this quote, and I feel excited after I read it. It let me know that instead of frustrating with what we lose, people should face difficult and challenges optimistically. We need to grow and learn how to benefit from the disadvantages.

However, I just cannot stop thinking that if Jennifer were born in China, whether her situation may become easier and brighter. Also, cannot eat eggs may become less important because of the variety of dishes choices.  China is famous of its food and it has a long food history. wow, I’d like to show some figures of attractive dishes.

Being a Boy!

Girls and boys are so distinguishable, and it is pretty easy to different them from the ways that how people perform. Since I was young, my mom treated me and dressed me as a particularly “standard” girl, and I had never thought about if I was a boy, what I should do or how I would be. Yet during this weekend, I convinced myself that I was a boy. Instead of wearing dress or lovely apparel, I put on a simple T-shirt, a loose sport pant, and the only pair of tennis shoes.

Do not slight my simple dressing-style’s change, because the outcome was funny. My roommate was surprise: “wow! What are you going to do today?  You finally decided to go to the pin center!?＂ (No kidding, I hate sports and I never went to pin for any exercising, though I was forced to pay the general fees~~). Then, in the whole day, I tried to talk loudly (sometime also adding some dirty words), sit without crossing my legs, and stride fast. Staying with my boyfriend, I put my arm on his shoulder and let him hold my wrist…. He looked at me strangely and not stopped chasing what happened to me….. “Changes” let me feel extremely weird and uncomfortable, it was interesting though.

Creamy Barbie Dream

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Padding it: why I don’t need a plus-size maxi pad

“I stop pumping and start thinking. First: Cool! Finally a company understands that I belong to a special market with special needs!

Then: Do my special needs really include a plus-size maxi pad?”

This quote is interesting, and Wendy used a creative self-questioning way to begin her story. She asked herself first, and in the following content she answered this funny question. I like her humorous.

“If always assumes that a bigger girl needs a bigger pad, what about petite women? Like Sarah Jessica Parker, with her size-zero body? Will always create a mini pad to accommodate her teeny-weeny vageeny?

This quote is important because Wendy future shows her dissatisfaction by asking a rhetorical question— people should not hold extreme opinions about fat or over-sized people.

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A real Doll

“I looked at her. Barbie’s eyes were sparkling blue like the ocean on a good way. I looked and in a moment noticed she had the whole world, the cosmos, drawn in makeup above and below her eyes. An entire galaxy, clouds, stars a sun, the sea, painted onto her face. Yellow, blue pink and a million silver sparkles.”

I like this quote very much because the sentence is beautiful. The description is so great that I can also imagine how charming the Barbie’s eyes! I was impressed and attracted by Barbie too. People always say that “eyes are the windows of hearts”, so we can notice others inside through their eyes.

Gateway To The Past

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The Black Lace Panties Triangle

All my feelings about this reading are confusing. I was confused why ken could have a so strong lust on Barbie, and why ken refused to hear and think about Barbie’s ideas. Somehow, the end of this short story is also hard to understand— why ken felt disappoint with Barbie’s reasonable refuse, why he left her with the black lace panty, and why he disappeared in Barbie’s life forever? I really cannot understand boys’ ideas and why they could addict to sex so deeply without caring about their lovers’ opinions. Facing this kind of boyfriends, what girls should do?

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The Elephant and the Ice-cream

“I was ashamed of my mother’s body-ashamed to bring her to school functions, ashamed to be identified with her. I wanted a mother like one of the neighborhood girl’s: slim, perky, friendly and glamorous, with store-bought clothes and make up; not obese, angry…..”

I like this paragraph and it functions as a landmark in the article. After speaking out the dissatisfaction or shame about obesity, Loolva’s life seems completely changed due to her mother’s dramatic weight lose. Also, the following stories become bright and positive. We can know it were her mother’s actions that decide Loolva’s physical and psychological activities. She learnt to eat fast and become fat because of “competing” food with her mother. Yet now, she is also “controlling” diet due to her mother’s slim! I like this article’s interesting and happy ending.

Further thinking—almost everyone has the experience that hopes to have a kind of parents or families which could be as “good” as others. Sometime, different kinds of vanities could lead people feel ashamed with their families or themselves; however, “vanities” could either have positive or negative outcomes depending on how people treated it. However, it is for sure that parents’ activities can definitely affect their children.

First Paper's Response

      I prefer learning stuff through interesting ways, such us having trips, or watching movies, rather than simply doing research in the library, which is kind of boring. Critiquing advertisements is the first paper that I wrote for the new academic year and it brought me so much fun rather than “pressure”.  We watched the Codes of Beauty in normal class (it was excited!) and I know many things about the intrinsic meanings of the ads. Now, looking at any piece of advertise, I can at least talk about something about it instead of keeping silence. Analyzing the ads, I know what the emotions, postures, or expressions that a photographer wants to portray by framing models. Nevertheless, I felt sad about the peer review part since I was absent in last class and I missed a really good chance to get feedback/ commons from other students. (It was all my bad.) Overall, the first paper’s experience was good, and hopefully, I would also enjoy the future essays!

Happy Mid-autumn Festival!!

BODY OUTLAWS

Size queen: a gay guy on firth

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“Gay-created media perpetuates our own physical standards. As in most media outlets, the predominant face is still Causasian, and the typical body is still as idealized as Michelangelo statue. Just as a straight woman may pick up an issue of Vogue, Cosmo or even Jane and feel intimidated by the models and messages that thin is still in, I can pick up a copy of Out, Genre or even the Advocate and be bombarded with ads for hair removal, plastic surgery, muscle enhancers and the like. To be the “It” gay man that these images idealize, you must have little to no body fat or body hair.” This quote is good because the author tells people what perfect physical standards would be in their gay guy’s eyes. He provided famous people’s name so we can directly understand his “beauty frame” without hard imaginations. Like normal people, homosexual people also have their own special visions about body obsession.

 “From the dance club to the health club, from the bathroom to the chat room, gay men are masters of marketing.” I choose this quote because I think it is interesting! My understanding is that ---since American people generally have the muscularity, fat, or full-figured body frames, the gay guys have more chance or choices to choose their satisfied lovers. I am not sure whether it is a real fact in America, or just John’s special idea about gay’s “beauty standard”, my idea is that, if in China, he may face troubles to find his “ idealized” lovers and he may not going to be the “Master”anymore in marketing.

Catching up

From Body Outlaws

Strip!

“Now, I wouldn’t strip in a smoky, dim club for men who like to exercise control from the shadows—too often using more than just imagination or money. But I live every day in a misunderstood body, and I have never had a day that taught me more confidence, more self-lobe or more power that the day I stripped.”

“When you play the gender game by everyone else's rules, you can only lose. So I stopped listening to the taunts and the slime. If I was going to be a freak, at least I’d be my own freak, making my own choices.”

I choose these two paragraphs because I can somewhat understand the author’s fear, satisfaction, and happiness, and I admire “her” courage and confidence. Daina sacrificed a lot to become what “she” really wanted to be but “she” has to keep suffering social’s discrimination. It was hard to choose between facts and dream since Daina known if “she” stripped something, “she” would undertake more from this decision. So, Daina is excellent! I cannot claim the nowadays society should accept transsexual people, but I just do not understand why people could not offer their understandings or respect for transsexual people. Hopefully, I can also have the courage and confidence to “strip” something to reach my dream.

First Blog!

     Hello, I am Yang Wang. I have been in Ohio University about three years. I am biological science major and I really hope I can be a doctor in the future. I think I am special in this class because I am the only international student! (sometime, I feel a kind of confused----why only one?). 

     People always ask me whether I will stay here or go back to my country. Actually, this is also a hard question for me and I have no idea where I am going to stay either, but I like America so much that I hope I can stay here forever.Three years’ English practice does not help me a lot with my English and I am still having troubles with listening, speaking, or writing English. However, I am confident that someday I finally can defeat English and use it as well as I am using Chinese!

       I like this writing class!