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John H. Johnson
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Reflection
As few of us women of about 60 in number sat to discuss the funeral arrangement of one of the brothers in church who just passed and how the women have been working so hard to give the brother a befitting funeral ceremony, a lady raised her voice that “with all our efforts as women, men still see us as being less than them.” I asked about the pain and confusion that has also enveloped the deceased son. Is anyone concerned about his emotional moments or trying period? This two important issues brought my mind back to the documentary on Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. After watching Miss Representation which talked about the misrepresentation of women I asked myself these three questions: how has the documentary impacted my being, knowing and doing. How it impacted my being, I have always told myself that women are specially created by God to be strong, builders, intelligent, multitasking, home organizer, great mothers, sisters, aunts, great friends and supporters. By subjecting women to be less than men or object of ridicule without encouragement from the men is totally wrong and unacceptable. How has it impact my Knowing, the documentary has not really changed anything from what I am already aware of about how women are being treated or looked upon. I have worked with women who are at top management levels, and my very own sister happens to be one of them whom her husband divorced because of her position and influence Will the miss representation of women affect my doing negatively, I would say “no.” I look at men or other women who bring strong women down as being weak and less confident. Woman or women is just an identity, women are not created with a tag on their heads as less human or less than men. We are just the architect of all these believe about women being subject to the men. The media as an entity needs to stop blowing the issue of miss representation of women out of proportion, and begin to portray women positively to the world. Once that is done and great things are promoted especially about great women, people will begin to see women from a different perspective with lots of respect. The Mask You Live In which was the second documentary, talked about male kids with pains and emotions enveloped on the inside of them without even the parents sensing such issue and this mostly lead some of male teenagers into some awkward situations in life. How has this documentary impacted my being, knowing and doing? These are issues that I have dealt with as a journalist as I researched on why some teenagers or even grown up men do the things they do. It was discovered that about 85% to 90% of male children lack attention and affection from their parents. As a result some of them end up miserable or join bad gangs for solace. How has it impact my knowing? Like I said, it is not something new to me but I am glad that some other people in our discourse community will learn from this and begin to pay more attention and show affection to their children irrespective of their ages. I met a 6-year boy during my research on “Why some children put up some weird behavior”, the boy narrated how he has been neglected since his younger brother was born and that the only thing that comes to his mind was to get rid of the younger brother so as to win his mother’s love back. How has it impacted my doing? There is need for media awareness campaign on how to have a good parent-child relationship. I already know this but for the purpose of the discourse community, parents need to do more work of being friends to their children by going very low to their levels in order to get the best out of them. It is also very important to know that no matter how young your child is he or she deserve respect with dignity.
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Nadiia
4/1/2019 02:08:56 pm
I like your respond to the "Miss Representation" and how you provided examples from own life. But it seems to me that you are not fully responded to the question from our blog assignment.
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Francis
4/1/2019 08:52:11 pm
Thanks Florence for your work but I'll like to agree with Nadiia that you're discussing far from the point of the assignment questions.
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Sabatino
4/3/2019 02:18:49 pm
I appreciate the comments being made here. In this context, I will add I see potential here for a research project:
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Tiffany S
4/7/2019 06:57:38 am
FLORENCE!!!! This is my first time visiting your page and your golden picture is stunning! Also your concepts are awesome!
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