RCG ; Race & The Colbert Report

In this class we talked about race more than class or gender.

We watched the Colbert Report with 2 interviews of women talking about the books they wrote. One book was about a women who was said to be "immortal" because her cells are the only ones that do not die. However, her family is not making any money off of that and they can not even pay for health insurance. The cells were actually taken from the women without her or her families consent and the family would sue but there is not enough money in it for the lawyers to get out of it. This book to me seems rather fascinating because this women was obviously very special but she died from cancer anyways and we never got to tell her she is saving many many lives today. The second book is about white people, from a black persons point of view basically. In the interview she came off as very racist to me not only for white people but to her own race as well. When they started talking about what skin color she had, she hesitated and never really said what skin color she had. He asked if she was white and she said "Well I have a Ph.D. To me that sounded like she was slapping her own race in the face by saying only white people get Ph.Ds while black people on the other hand do not. This show was funny because he is a comedian from comedy central so he had made jokes the entire time both women were on here. With the first women he would say, and this immortal women's family is probably suffering and what not because they can not even afford health insurance, however, the people who stole her cells are getting richer and richer everyday. He stated, that is just absolutely unfair and ridiculous to even hear even if it is not happening to you and he felt bad for that family. With the second woman he just kept saying she was racist because everything that came out of that woman's mouth sounded very racist to all races. It was like she did not think before she spoke and bashed whites and blacks at the same time. She acted like she was better than both of those races and she is not either but even more special for some reason.

In this class we also discussed what we are doing in next class. We are having a guessed speaker who will be talking about sexuality and homosexuality. Then we talked about what will be on our midterm exam and what kind of questions we will see on the test.

RCG ; Porn Industry & Stereotypes

For this class we discussed about the pornography industry once again and about stereotypes.

The industry of pornography is increasing a great deal these days, even though people do not want to admit it, it is very clear that it is happening. In the reading assignment Naked Capitalist it told you that it is a much bigger industry than people come to realize. Most of the people around the world even buy, rent, or watch pornography, however, all of these people do not want other people to know that they do such things. In our society this industry is really frowned upon and looked at with true disgust and that it does not belong in our society like they put it off as in this country and around the world. Though the pornography is here to stay for quite awhile, even the news tries to hide it from the world and if something bad happens or even something good they try to keep it from being put on air because they are ashamed of this industry and how bad it looks for them as well as the people in it. Even though the people who are in this industry probably love it because it is an easy job and pays very well and they will keep getting paid because people will still keeping buying their magazines or tapes just not having the guts to admit they like it. We said in class how people who watch it will never ever admit to ever buying it let alone being able to admit that they do watch it. The only people who probably are not embarrassed to admit that they watch it are college guys who really do not care what other people say or think about them because they think that is what they are suppose to do in college. However, as those men get older it is more frowned upon and then the secrets start building up that they still watch porn occasionally or buy magazines of it. I do not mean to pick on the males but I am just sure that the majority of people who buy porn are men, even though i am sure there are females who do as well. I just believe the men overweight the females in this category on this specific subject of who watches porn more. We also talked about stereotypes in this class. Stereotypes are widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. It is a person or thing that conforms to such an image. No one should be treated like a stereotype because that is not who that certain person is. Stereotyping has been happening for so long i do not think people know how to stop putting people in those little groups and saying they are like this or that. No one person is the same, therefore, could not possible fit into a group stereotype that was made in the past by people who were bored with their lives and started saying that kind of stuff to themselves. In conclusion, for this class we talked about how the pornography industry is growing fast but greatly frowned upon by society and the fact stereotypes are bad but are not going anywhere soon.