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!