This blog project was the first time I had gotten my feet wet in the vast sea that is the blog-o-sphere. I thoroughly enjoy writing on my free time, so it was beneficial to be forced to creatively combine my already established feminist critique on EVERYTHING with concepts I was learning in this class. The readings were fantastic and very informative in the context of being able to connect them to specific examples in popular culture.
A couple of problems I encountered: I am not a movie buff and I don't own a television, I watch a select few shows and documentaries on netflix and that's about it. I have spent the last three years of my life purposely keeping my intake of media and pop culture to a minimum for many reasons. This became an issue as I was writing the blog entries because I found myself needing to "catch-up" on popular culture. I wanted all of my references to be as current as possible, so I spent a lot of time searching for the latest music videos, flipping through Cosmo magazines, etc.. This led me to become really overwhelmed with the multitude of things I could write about, which I suppose wasn't all that surprising.
What I also really enjoyed was sharing my blog ( as well as readings from class) with girlfriends of mine. Some readings really flipped them on their head and made them question everything they perceive, as they did for me as well. Women and media is such a broad topic encompassing sooo many concepts, the readings and the blog writings really helped to focus in and narrow it down. In the middle of the blog writing process I decided to start my own blog on the side which includes my writing, poetry, photos, music etc... really love it.!
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