Creating Equity in Media

Season 1 Episode 1 "Days Gone By" Episode Aired: October 31st, 2010 Male Speaking Characters: Rick, Shane, Morgan, Dwayne (a few deputies, unnamed) Female Speaking Characters: Amy (Andrea's sister) on the radio Disclaimer - This blog series will be my reaction to how the male gaze affects what we think of women through media. It's going to look at how people view women in movies and shows, but also continue the long history of making caricatures of women in media, which continues to perpetuate men's views of them. This project will not only look at the literal number of women speaking roles versus men speaking roles. It will also take a deeper look at camera angles and dialogue, and how those things create unfair or unforgiving ideas for some characters and not others. Though these reactions are meant to start a conversation about how television shows and movies carry on dangerous and destructive beliefs about women and how that can have a subconscious effect ...

"Don't Regret the Wrong Men" (out of context statement) by Jimmy on Relationships   Meme Series Disclaimer:  All Memes are found on Facebook or other social media platforms by saving the images. I don’t own any of them and if they don’t have names on them, that was how I found it.  I understand that memes and pictures are supposed to be something we “Like” or dislike, but I would like to open a conversation about some of these comments that people just “share” without critically thinking about them. Critical Thinking is one of our best defensive/offensive tools in this world I used to watch Jimmy on Relationships, and he has some good content. However, even well-intentioned men cannot advise women on what they should or should not accept when it comes to men. There are generations of proof that men cannot vet men, and they rarely give women advice that isn’t male-centered. Listening to men about most things is not in our best interest.  Especially this. Unfortunately...

  Sometimes I struggle to see myself in Taylor Swift’s lyrics, something that I need to connect and love a song or artist and it's because my experience in the world has been so very different for a lot of reasons.  Though ‘Reputation’ was my first “I really love this” album, Swift's ‘Folklore’ has become one of my favorite albums because so much of it is about life and shared experiences and feelings. I didn’t have to live Taylor’s life during lockdown to feel the emotions from a lot of our shared worldwide circumstances as well as her desire to tell stories that weren’t 100% autobiographical anymore. I can see how that approach has made her such a strong artistic talent. I hope to see more of her Folklore Era in new music because she really did something there that was beautifully unique within her legacy of music.  ‘Illicit Affairs’, which I first heard in its entirety on the Eras Tour movie, touched me in a way that I wasn’t prepared to deal with, not because I was ev...

  (Image Found via Google Search) We all know the feelings attached to the action of stepping on a scale, whether it's true indifference, curiosity, fear, anxiety, depression or a thousand other things. I received an important reminder today that they are just a tool, one tool that cannot tell me the whole story. It doesn’t take into consideration that I haven’t had a full period in two months and I am possibly retaining that uterine lining, it doesn’t care that I am working as hard as I possible can to match the desire for a healthy weight against the food addict in me and the addiction to the numbers in my life that will say that I am worthwhile, that I am not a failure. Well someone in my close vicinity decided to eff with me and tell me that the scale was inaccurate by fifteen pounds and when I turned and told him to keep that kind of crap to himself he didn’t understand, questioned and laughed off my request and here I am over two plus hours later still shook from this experie...

  I wrote this review a while ago and I am going to put it out there. I think it's the perfect first post for my endeavor into blogging. This is a review of therapeutic massage that I see Debra for and she is a blessing for the service she provides and the person that she is.  Before I continue, I will be mentioning some experiences with possible triggering topics: being a survivor in the #metoo movement - which should give you an idea of what the triggering topic is though I only mention the experience in passing. I have never had massages from a professional masseuse but I have heard about them, seen them in movies and have always wanted one and just never been able to get one until this past year. Someone in a Facebook group shared a special for massages and I went ahead and purchased one of the packages. My experience with massages with Debra has been nothing but positive. I don’t have anything to compare it to but I don’t think that matters in the grand scheme of things, ...