Monthly Archives: October 2019

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Language & Gender

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To what extent does the representation of women in advertising reflect or challenge the identity of women?

The goal of the advertisement is to say how not to judge girls by the height of their skirts. This is to show that women are likely to be looked down as the skirt length that they wear gets shorter and more skin is exposed. The purpose of this advertisement is to make awareness, not to judge women by their appearance. The audience is the ladies affected by this problem and along with men who see this not a problem. From the old theme in the advert, it is interpreted that it was a bigger problem in the older generation. It could take away some of the responsibility from women for being thought that it is their fault that they are being shamed, harassed or assaulted for their choice of clothes. This advert is trying to show women that it is alright to dress how you want, it is not their fault.

 

The search bar is placed over her mouth with terms that we see in the news a lot when women speak out or protest. The woman wearing Hijab also shows the struggles that women in Islam face because it is a conservative society that limits the actions of women in everyday life. The target audience since it is an advert posted by the UN, could be the whole world to draw attention to the global issue of women rights. The choice of people is a young woman, having a plain facial expression and looking straight in front. The colour of the whole ad is dark showing how women do not have much freedom or free will in their say or actions.

 

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Mental Health

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I learned in class that it is important to understand yourself in order to not be in the situation of having depression on myself. I think the video was very powerful, as the personal experience of the girl who experienced depression herself was shown. By this, I saw how important it is to not overstress or pressure myself with the environment I have. Also, the view of the surrounding people was shown from her own view, which made me re-think about the words to give to people depressed when I want to support them.

From the start of the term, I had many moments when I was stress or depressed on my work or from the new environment I had as I entered into IB. I am proud of myself when I am able to overcome the depression and use it a chance for myself to look back at my work I have done and improved on it for better learning. By this, I think I am able to put enough pressure on myself, but not too much that makes it hard for myself to stand back up.

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#metoo Movement

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How do you think the #metoo movement has impacted our society?

I think many people became more aware of the fact that there are a lot of things like sexual harassment happening in society. This movement was moving in a positive way until it started to spread too much and some people started to use the hashtag for different reasons. There were leaders of the society, who impacted and caused problems in connection to this movement. The examples we looked at in class of Trump, Cosby, Harvey W, Bill C and Matthew W are some of them. It has caused effects on the representation of gender (most commonly women) in society.

Thinking about the IB concepts of identity and representation, how do you think the #metoo movement could potentially change how TV/film/adverts represent men and women?

There are many TVs, films and adverts that represent women in a way that is very typical. For example, the fact that people with darker colour suffer more or high expectations of women body shape. There are identities of gender that are misrepresented or not understood, which are sometimes seen in texts and how they represent it. From the research in class, we have found out how much of a serious problem this is and that the emotional depress that people get from these harassments are very intense and not fixable, for example with money. 

Which global issues do you think the #metoo movement relates to?

I think the movement relates to the problem of gender equality. The fact that there is a comparison between women and men, and expectations occur even in the gender type, it is a problem of people not treated equally just because of their identity. For example in the comedy clip that we watched in class about the audition of a role of ‘leading women’, there was discrimination just by the skin colour, age, and body shape of women.