Final Blog

All of the texts we have read during this class were interesting to me.Each article had good points and every piece of text had a conflict. Their was always a problem. Their were a lot of naysayers in each text which made reading the text interesting. Also the topics of each text was related to something in real life.My three favorites texts were Goffman ,Sedaris and orbach.Goffman was probably the most interesting to me. This also taught me the most. This article was about how things are feature on tv or in magazines and movies.It explained what everything meant.Things like feminine touch,using a womans touch for certain things to sell the object. Goffman,”Woman more than are pictures using their fingers and hands to teace the outlines of an object or to cradle it or to caress its surface,or to effect a “just barely touching” of the kind that might be significant between two electrically charged bodies”.(29)The elegance of the woman’s hand to tell a story. Another thing in goffman was function ranking. I found this interesting when a certain role is more higher then the others.For example a doctor in a commercial you would listen to more talking about health than a regular person. If you have a normal person on the street trying to tell you the risks of something and then you have a doctor most of the time you’d listen more to the doctor because hes a credible source. Or if a a doctor is in a commercial trying to inform people about a certain disease most people are going to believe the doctor instead of a regular person even if the person is living with the disease and may know just as much information. The doctor being a credible source people automatically are drawn to believe that the doctor knows what hes talking about.Family role was also in goffman about how in commercials there is a stereotypical family in the commercial. In most commercials you see a father who works and whos ahead of the family.The mother who gets the kids ready for school and takes care of them.Then the kids outside playing.The dad always had to be the higher rold in the family.The father is always pictured at the top of the family.That interested me how theirs stereotypes in these commercials.2nd article I found good was Sedaris. Sedaris was about a 41 year old man who went back to school. He moved to Paris because he needed to learn the language there. He felt that because he was 41 no one could push him around.Sedaris,’’I remind myself that I am now a full grown man.No one will ever again card me for a drink or demand that I weave a floor mat out of newspapers. At my age a reasonable person should have completed his sentence in the prison of nerves and the insecure that the great promise of adulthood?”(291)He thought just because he was going to school with people maybe not his age he had the advantage.Everyone in his class knew the language pretty good, he thought he did too.He found out that being 41 didn’t mean you got special treatment. He was scared of his teacher and embarrassed to answer questions.The last text Orbach which was really good.Orbach was a feminist who believed that woman should love themselves for who they are.She was against the way society make woman look on tv.They make it seem okay to look a certain way that isn’t the healthiest and the tv doesn’t give good role models.She feels as if fat can ruin a girls self esteem and it shouldn’t be looked at as it is.Shes also against how woman are viewed in the publice with sex stereotypes’ enjoyed this text because Susie orbach wrote about her thoughts even if it went against what society thinks today.