Project

I want to show somthing about the type of people that commit crimes. I am going to collect the blotter from the Dallas Morning News for a weeks and catalog the type of crime as violent or non violent, what the crime was and what the race of the person was who commited the crime.
We did a reading ealier in the semester about how some news staions only showed the crimes on tv that were commited by minorites, even though everyone commits crimes. Thise type of selective showing leads people to form negitive options about certain races. The media has the ability to shape the opinions of people.
I want to know if the newspaper does the smae thing or if it reports crme about all different types of people.

Video Games

Sex and steroetypes have now seemed into videio games and are polluting the minds of children. Even though the a 29 year old male is the peson that studies hahve found play the most video games, its children that are impressionable by what they see on the games. A 29 year old male should know what is right and what is real about a video game, while a child might not be sure.
Video games contain obsord amounts of violence, and people with unrealistic body types.
These unrealistic body types lead yonug peole to believe that woman are suppose to have overly large breast and tiny waist and men should be well chisled bodies. These images can lean young people to have harsh opinions of what they themselves should look like and could lead to unhealth habits. The way that woman can be portrayed in theses games can lead yound men to belive that this is way that real woman should be treated and it's not. Games show naked woman gagged and begging to be killed and prostitues being killed after sex. Those things aren't acceptable in real life, so why should they be in a game.
Second to the 29 year old that play the games are adelescent boys.
These boys should be seeing more holesmethngs than these things that are contained in these games. The top 10 selling games all contain violence and unrealistic body images and that isn't healthy for today's youth.
There should be ways to entertain these young men without filling their minds with garbage.

Sex and the Movies

Sex is once again used to sell something......movies. Some form of sexual cotent is found in alot of movie trailer and previews and this is fact because of the study done by oliver and kalyanaraman. In fact "on average the previews contained 1.51 sex scenes per minute" and that's alot of sex for a 30 second to three minute clip. Obviously the whole movie doesn't have that much sex in it and the producers can choose to put anything they want in the previews and trailers, but why do they always choose to show the sex. The movie industry is a multi billion dollar industry and whatever producers are doing is working becuase lots of movies are still being made. And they ae being viewed because of sex. In addition to movies promoting sex to sell themselves, it seems like the sexual portrayals tend to be about woman. Some it extremly short skirts such as in Empire records and other in other ways csuh as bathing suits or in a bed, as eluding to the fact that sex has just happened or is about to occur. Why can't the previews just tell what the movie is about without all the sex.

sex symbols

So throughout this class we have learned how everything degrades woman and makes everything about sex. As much as i want to believe that this isn't true, i came to the understanding this week that men see woman as sex symbols even if that is not what the woman is trying to protrey.
So i was working on Monday Tuesady night, at a fine dining restaurant in Addison, and i was solisited for sex by one of my customers. I did nothing to bring this own, and i wasn't dressed in a provacative manner, infact i had on black pants and a black high collared shirt. This man dined alone and said he was a business man from L.A. and was leaving Wednesday. He sat at my table fro serval hours and i always made simple conversation with him when i walked by to fill his water glass, which is part of my job. So as the night when on his conversation got my inapropiate and he went as far as to bluntly ask me if i was "getting any lovin" to which i replied i had a serious boyfriend and my private life was none of his business. Apparently that answer didn't suite him because he then patted my butt, but apolgized and said he was reaching for my arm. The man made me uncomfortable and i didn't go over there again till it was time to give him his bill, and that time he invited me back to his hotel to "cuddle or watch a movie, or something else, but whatever i wanted" and he said he would make it worth my while. I have hime his change and when he left he left a map to his hotle, the room number, and a phone number.
Since did the average waitress become a sex symbol? It really makes me think that society leads men to belive that this kind of behavior is ok, and it's not. Not everyone wants to be seen like that.