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14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - How am I not a racist? · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - This is totally off th... · 0 replies · +1 points
In his post, Sam Richards says that people can use video games to release tendencies that they have in real life. This may be true. However, if someone has tendencies in real life of wanting to rape someone, he should seek immediate help from other sources. Raping women in video games is not the answer. Men who want to rape women have a serious mental disorder, and I do not think that video games are a cure for this illness. I think that men who get pleasure out of virtually raping women, will think that they will get even more pleasure out of raping women in real life. I think men like this would want to then it to another level—real life.
Also, this video game caused quite a stir for women activist groups. A main reason for this is because the game is so unbelievably degrading towards women. In addition to raping women, men can also make women’s skirts flail up, along with other things. These “other things” are apparently too graphic for CNN to show on television! This video game, as I see it, really treats women as nothing more than objects.
I was very glad to hear that the video games were taken of the shelves at stores. However, people were still able to find the games on the internet. It is just a shame how anyone in our society could easily access them.
Sam Richards asks the question, “How many of you men reading this would play this game with your male friends and a couple of beers?” Although I am a woman and cannot answer this question, I instantly thought of all of my male friends. I can honestly say that I do not think any of them would. Yes, they are all interested in sex—of course! However, I really think—and hope—they would not get pleasure out of raping women in video games. They would go to pornographic websites, and watch pornographic videos to get pleasure form sex instead. I really hope that there will not be any more games made that involve raping women.
14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Women · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - What about the men? · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - What if we got rid of ... · 0 replies · +1 points
However, I feel that the system can easily be taken advantage of. If people on welfare are happy or okay with living on welfare, and know that they will keep receiving it, they might not even try to become independent. This raises the question of whether or not taking away welfare will encourage and motivate people more to go out and find a job. However, what happens when a hundred-and-ten percent effort is being made by a person, but that person still cannot land a job. There seems to be no answer! We need to come up with a way to improve the distribution of welfare to weed out those who think of it as “free money”. Getting rid of it completely is not the answer though.
I personally know someone on welfare. For years she has been on and off welfare. I know that she would much rather have a job and work for her money. She is ashamed to be on welfare but knows that the alternative is much, much worse. The thought of taking welfare away from this woman completely, scares me.
With regard to social status, I think that cutting off welfare will definitely increase the amount of people in the country living in poverty. Welfare eliminates a lot of the degrading differences that can be seen by others in society. Welfare allows people who cannot support themselves to somewhat “blend in”; subsequently they are generally accepted by society on a day to day basis. Without welfare, many people in society would be sleeping on the streets, and digging through trash to get food to eat.
Welfare puts people in better situations and allows them to function somewhat normally in society. Despite this, the conditions that people on welfare live in are still not ideal. In order to better the conditions that people on welfare live in, these people need to find jobs. People’s social statuses becomes higher when they are working and receiving higher income.
Of course it makes me mad to know that there are people out there who cheat the welfare system. Nonetheless, I feel better thinking about those who desperately need assistance, and are able to get it from the government.
14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Isn't a person's quali... · 0 replies · +1 points
In order to qualify to work in the medical field, a person has to be well educated with years of experience. I feel that affirmative action in schools is what gives people of all races an equal chance to get to that high level of profession. Affirmative action allows more opportunities for people to learn, study, and possibly work their way up to working such important jobs. I really do not think that doctors are given their jobs based on affirmative action, but on qualifications.
14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - I really want to know ... · 0 replies · +1 points
One lecture of Sam Richard’s that particularly stands out in my mind is the LGBT lecture. I left class that day with a whole new perspective on the LGBT community. I never really knew where I stood on the issue, or how I felt about it. Sam Richards made me understand the LGBT community more. He made it so clear as to why no one should discriminate against the LGBT community. I left class that day with my mind made up that I fully accept and respect the LGBT community.
14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - Those Dolls Say Alot A... · 0 replies · +1 points
There is definitely not just one factor that contributes to this distorted way of thinking. Nonetheless, I notice that white children are given so many “white characters” to admire while growing up. Black children are not given nearly as many “black characters” to admire. I believe that giving black children characters that resemble not only their race, but beauty as well, is something that can be done to help alleviate this terrible situation.
Growing up, I clearly remember how much I loved Barbie. She had the perfect hair, eyes, and body. Of course, I wanted to be everything that she was! She embodied beauty. When I would go to the Barbie aisle to pick out a new Barbie, I remember that there was usually only one or two types of dark skinned Barbie dolls amongst shelves and shelves of white dolls.
Therefore, it is not coincidence that when we googled “beauty” in class, all of the results that came up on the first page were women who resembled Barbie. They were all thin, with straight and shiny blonde hair, and of course, white skin.
Also, I remember growing up and idolizing the Disney characters Belle, Arielle, Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty. Just like Barbie, all of these characters embodied beauty as well. Not only did I consider them all to be beautiful, but it seemed as if everyone else thought they were beautiful as well. They were also ALL white skinned girls. At this time, there was not one black Disney character for young black children to idolize.
However, I have noticed that today, Disney has made an effort to develop characters that represent all of the different races-- not just all white females. For example, Pocahontas is Native American and Mulan is Asian. Very recently, for the first time, Disney created a black Disney princess, Tiana. Tiana starred in the movie “The Princess Frog“. This is wonderful because finally, young black girls can feel proud of their dark skin. They have their own Disney princess to look up. It is just a shame that it took THIS long for Disney to do this. Hopefully this is only the beginning, and there are more Disney characters of different races to come! This will not completely eliminate, but help to solve the serious problem that is clearly affecting children at a very young age. We can overcome this, one step at a time.
14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - In Her Own Words · 0 replies · +1 points
Most women do not feel as comfortable as Laurie talking about their menstrual cycles. This is because our culture basically teaches us that periods are something that is personal to women.
Men will never have to go through what women go through each month-- mood swings, aches and pains, cramps, etc. Nonetheless, men should be aware of what is going on during a woman’s time of the month, and not feel so weird about it.
14 years ago @ Race Relations Project - If men could menstruat... · 0 replies · +1 points
I think that it was such a shock for the class when Sam brought up this topic because it is rarely ever talked about outside of the “women’s circle”. Women talk about it with their girlfriends all of the time but never in public with men around. That is why it was strange for everyone. Because men do not get their periods each month, they will never fully understand what it is like. However, I think that mature men acknowledge that it is natural for women and not something that is gross or funny.