Monday, October 31, 2016
-Isms Everywhere Jessica
I attempted to find examples of the -isms discussed in When Worlds Collide, and it was very difficult. I found certain examples, and they may be questionable whether it is crossing a line into each category.
An article written by The Wall Street Journal is titled, "An 80-year-old figure skater stays fit to compete." This piece is very cute because it highlights a story that is out of the ordinary, however, I noticed an ageist tone. The lead is, "Let other grandmothers take their grandchildren to see Disney on Ice. Sheila Cluff takes her seven grandchildren to see Grandma on ice." This is implying that the majority of grandmothers are not performing impressive, physical activity.
In an article by The Huffington Post, a woman is harassed via twitter because of her feminist comic book series. The article does well with naming individuals and keeping things gender neutral, however I did fin one instance where a masculine noun was used:
"In response, Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso spoke out against the harassment and voiced his support for Cain, as did several other Marvel employees, according to company spokesman Joseph Taraborrelli."
My example for racism is actually an example where I think the writer edited really well. The article by The New York Times discussed how college orientations are now addressing sensitive topics that may cause offense on campus. The article required describing a lot of negative stereotypes related to race and ethnicity and my example worded the problem very well.
"Microaggressions, Ms. Marlowe said, are comments, snubs or insults that communicate derogatory or negative messages that might not be intended to cause harm but are targeted at people based on their membership in a marginalized group."
I had difficulty finding the two other -isms in actual published stories. I am looking forward to reading through everyone else's findings to see some real examples.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Blog post 9: Discriminatory language
It is sad to think that discrimination still happens and often times it happens without any real intent to offend. No matter where we look there may be something that is racist, ageist, heterosexist, or sexist being presented whether in text, pictures or video. As others have mentioned in their posts throughout this presidential election we have heard many things about age, race, gender, etc. yet what I really loved that the book said is, "This is not a matter of being politically correct. It is a matter of being human."
Everyone we associate ourselves with deserves respect. Anyone we see deserves respect. Though we don't understand them or agree with the way they live their lives we have no need to disrespect them. This truly is a matter of being human.
I commit myself to be more careful when speaking or writing to not discriminate in any way. Though it has become more socially acceptable to say certain things we need to recognize that language changes as society does. We each need to be willing to adapt to those changes. Mistakes will happen but we can right our wrongs.
In one of my classes last semester we reviewed the popular Super Bowl commercials and found that there were many that were controversial or considered discriminatory because of the timing of things. At that time there was a big movement for #Blacklivesmatter and many commercials either supported the movement or were against it. Language changes through time.
There was one commercial in particular I remember watching and at first glance I didn't think much of it. As we reviewed it more I understood why it was a discriminatory commercial. I will leave it here for you to state your opinion about this commercial.
Everyone we associate ourselves with deserves respect. Anyone we see deserves respect. Though we don't understand them or agree with the way they live their lives we have no need to disrespect them. This truly is a matter of being human.
I commit myself to be more careful when speaking or writing to not discriminate in any way. Though it has become more socially acceptable to say certain things we need to recognize that language changes as society does. We each need to be willing to adapt to those changes. Mistakes will happen but we can right our wrongs.
In one of my classes last semester we reviewed the popular Super Bowl commercials and found that there were many that were controversial or considered discriminatory because of the timing of things. At that time there was a big movement for #Blacklivesmatter and many commercials either supported the movement or were against it. Language changes through time.
There was one commercial in particular I remember watching and at first glance I didn't think much of it. As we reviewed it more I understood why it was a discriminatory commercial. I will leave it here for you to state your opinion about this commercial.
Christie Fewkes
Week 9
I think this week was the most challenging unit yet. So many times, we struggle with the right
words for articles only to find that we have to rethink every word or phrase we
have written. Although sexist language has never been an issue for me, I didn’t
realize how easily it can slip into our everyday vocabulary and our
writing. The simple use of the word
fireman rather than firefighter is a perfect example.
The world of sports seems to have more than their fair share
of sexism when it comes to reporting. One example of sexism in the media was
made quite popular during the Olympics this past summer. The Chicago Tribune
newspaper identified bronze medal winner Corey Cogell-Unrein in a headline as
the “wife” of a Chicago football player. The headline failed to give
Cogell-Urein’s name. She is a competitor
in the sport of trap shooting
“Simpson and Delilah”
is the second episode of The Simpsons second season, airing on October 18, 1990. In the
episode Homer’s hair grows back due to the air of a new drug Dimoxinil. After
his hair grows back, Homer notices that he gets treated nicely and even gets a
promotion. This is an exert from an online source that shows that people
with long hair and fashion are of different sexual orientation and that is a
stereotype of heterosexism. Homer never has hair and when he does that
fits a general stereotype of how we view gay men.
Now that I am
actually looking, ageism seems to be everywhere. Prevention magazine recently
noted that Older people are not all hard-of-hearing. You don’t need to shout at
them or use the same voice you would use with a small child. No one likes being
patronized. According to research reported in the Journal of Nonverbal
Behavior, young adults give directions differently to 65-year-olds than they do
to 21-year-olds. Specifically, they speak to older adults more slowly and in
higher-pitched voices — two speech patterns associated with being
patronizing, notes Prevention. “When adults talk
to you the way they do to a two-year-old, they’re presuming you’re not fully
competent, and that’s demeaning,” study co-author Jessica Hehman, assistant
professor of psychology and director of the Psychology of Aging Lab at the
University of Redlands, told Prevention. A friend just
switched personal trainers because at 70, she was tired of hearing “good job”
every time she completed an exercise set. “I’m not six years old, after all,”
she said. “What was next? A star chart?”
Racism can
sometimes be accidental or unintentional, as is the sign below. Blacks is
actually the name of a store.
Blog 9 - Amy Williams
I found it really hard to find examples of these things in the current news, so I tried to think back to when I had read them previously.
Ageism:
I remembered an article about Bernie Sanders being too old to run for president.
Heterosexism:
I couldn’t find an original of this article, but there was a story fairly recently where a man killed another man and burned down his home. It was first reported that the man was a friend of the man he killed. However, they were actually estranged partners. If a woman had burned down a man’s house, I believe the media would have been more likely to assume they were partners.
Racism:
I couldn’t find an original of this article, but there was a story fairly recently where a man killed another man and burned down his home. It was first reported that the man was a friend of the man he killed. However, they were actually estranged partners. If a woman had burned down a man’s house, I believe the media would have been more likely to assume they were partners.
Racism:
On E! News, one of the hosts was talking about red carpet outfits. When she was asked about the outfit of a woman with natural dreadlocks, she commented on her hair instead, and that it likely smelled like marijuana.
Sexism:
This election is a great example of sexism in the media. People are constantly talking about Hillary’s hair and outfits, simply because she’s a woman. Similarly, on red carpets, people always ask the women who they are wearing, and essentially ignore the men’s outfits.
Week 9 - Appropriate and Sensitive Language
I think a lot of students have had their eyes opened this semester on all the many little mistakes we make in our day to day writing. This week was no different as I realized that I generally generalize with masculine language. I swear it's not on purpose ladies.
I work at The Home Depot's online contact center as a Supervisor, and because of that I send out many emails to my team. This is where I became aware of the first mistake I have been making frequently, which involves the sexism section. When I write an email to my team, I often will start it with, "Hey Guys." I have both men and woman on my team, but this is just how I've always addressed them. Since going over the section I've changed my opening to, "Hey Team."
The other of these that I found I have an issue with is regarding heterosexism, and more specifically the concept that not everyone is heterosexual. I know that their are many people I come across who must identify as being gay or lesbian, but I just think about it in my writing or communication. We had a work party recently, and when communicating, I advised people that they were welcome to bring their husband or wife, but after going over this section, I know now that the best way to phrase this in the future is to say, "significant other."
I didn't actually find a specific example out in the world that shows these issues, but I did find a really interesting article that shows how sexism is being shown in the world of sports.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/03/sport/sexism-sport-rio-olympic-games/index.html
Hope you find it as interesting as I did! They analyzed over 160 million words from decades of newspapers, academic papers, tweets and blogs, and the study finds men are three times more likely than women to be mentioned in a sporting context, while women are disproportionately described in relation to their marital status, age or appearance.
I work at The Home Depot's online contact center as a Supervisor, and because of that I send out many emails to my team. This is where I became aware of the first mistake I have been making frequently, which involves the sexism section. When I write an email to my team, I often will start it with, "Hey Guys." I have both men and woman on my team, but this is just how I've always addressed them. Since going over the section I've changed my opening to, "Hey Team."
The other of these that I found I have an issue with is regarding heterosexism, and more specifically the concept that not everyone is heterosexual. I know that their are many people I come across who must identify as being gay or lesbian, but I just think about it in my writing or communication. We had a work party recently, and when communicating, I advised people that they were welcome to bring their husband or wife, but after going over this section, I know now that the best way to phrase this in the future is to say, "significant other."
I didn't actually find a specific example out in the world that shows these issues, but I did find a really interesting article that shows how sexism is being shown in the world of sports.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/03/sport/sexism-sport-rio-olympic-games/index.html
Hope you find it as interesting as I did! They analyzed over 160 million words from decades of newspapers, academic papers, tweets and blogs, and the study finds men are three times more likely than women to be mentioned in a sporting context, while women are disproportionately described in relation to their marital status, age or appearance.
Appropriate Language
It was very interesting learning about Chapter 11 in “When
Words Collide. I feel like this is an interesting topic, because most writers
aren’t trying to be sexist when they use exclusive language. Most people don’t
even realize how offensive this could be; however, it is great that we are
trying to get rid of this type of writing. While studying, I agreed with the AP
on trying to avoid the “he or she” writing style, because it ends up sounding
like a mouthful. I liked the idea or trying to make personal nouns plural in
order to avoid gender words and replace them with “they” or “them”.
I work
at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and have seen firsthand sexist language. I do
patient transport so I frequently interact with doctors and nurses. Frequently
while someone is asking about a nurse they tend to use words like “she” and “her”;
however, when talking about doctors most people say “he” and “his”. Once a
patient asked me, “I’m looking for the nurse; do you know where she is?” Before
I could answer a masculine voice spoke from behind me and said, “I am the
nurse, how can I help you?” The patient looked flustered when they realized
their mistake and quickly apologized. I later asked the nurse if it offended
him when people assumed him to be a female because of his job. The nurse
laughed it off and said it happens enough he can’t take it personally;
although, it did disappoint him how frequently it happened.
I
really like this picture I found on the internet. It shows what words are best
to use in order to avoid gender base language.
Week 9- Keela Disterhaft
When I first read what this assignment was there was one
twitter post that came to mind. This happened over the summer during the Summer
Olympics. This is my first example:
Sexism
Wife of a Bears' lineman wins a bronze medal today in Rio Olympics trib.in/2asmvvr
I remember when
this was all over the news and it’s sad to see that this still happens today. The
next example that I immediately thought of was the segment of the Bill o’ Rilley
show where one of his reporters went to Chinatown and interviewed members of
that community.
The segment was
insensitive and very offensive. The report was filled with so many stereotypes
about Chinese people. I’m not sure who thought that was a good idea but it was
awful and in no way funny.
Racism
That was such
an awful idea. The reporter is asking some people questions and they clearly
don’t even understand his language yet the show is making them out to be dumb.
This next
example is a huge topic in Hollywood right now. A lot of female actors are
getting looked over for roles in movies because they’re “too old”.
Ageism
Maggie Gyllenhaal: At 37 I was 'too old'
for role opposite 55-year-old man
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Over the hill, apparently ... Maggie Gyllenhaal was shocked to discover she was “too old” for a romantic role. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/AP
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This example
might be a little bit of ageism and sexism. A man can be 55 years old and land
a job but Maggie Gyllenhaal is considered too old to star opposite?
Week 9
I work with autistic kids in their homes for my job doing
behavior therapy. One of the moms was telling me that her 4-year-old boy said
his favorite color was pink. The father then told the child “No, your favorite
color is blue. Say blue, not pink.” Not only are children vulnerable, but
autistic children especially. He probably thought he did something wrong by
having that favorite color. But the dad was so caught up in the fact that ‘pink
is for girls’ that he couldn’t stand the fact his child liked the color pink.
Heterosexism:
Harassment toward the LGBT community has always been bad. However, the
community isn’t as silenced as it’s history shows. This photo shows a movement
that Covergirl is taking. Their new Covergirl model is a boy, James Charles. I
started reading the comments under the pictures, and found comments saying he
is “gross” or “not a real boy” if he likes makeup. Who are we to judge?
Racism: I saw
this picture scrolling through my Facebook feed. When I read the caption, my
jaw dropped.
Not only is this somewhat of a racist comment, but mocking
of a religion, as well as a purely evil comment about someone’s looks.
My editing mistake for this week was a text message from my
Bishop. He heard about my grandfathers passing and sent a really kind message letting
me know he was thinking of me. In the text it said, “It is so hard to loose
your grandparents who have loved you your whole life.” He used the word “loose”
when “lose” should be its replacement.
Week 9 - Carly Rowe
As stated in
the week 9 document, sexism, heterosexism, racism and ageism are in our daily
lives one way or another. Whether it is at work, home, public, or just in an
article found online. There is no escaping it. It’s 2016 though, wouldn’t it
make complete sense that this wouldn’t even be a topic nowadays? Of course not,
that’d be too easy. We all know the latest, or one of the latest items that was
previously in the news about a certain presidential candidate and what was said
11+ years ago. While of course it isn’t acceptable, unfortunately as discussed
with my husband, it is what is talked about. I know many people who talk like
this just for kicks and giggles. He stated that it’s daily talk on the work
site at his construction job. Some examples I have found are stated in these
articles, they’re interesting reads if you would like to take a peek. Please be
aware there is a political article, I am no way endorsing any presidential candidate
on this blog nor am I posting this to start an argument, it is simply an
article found that meets what is required for the discussion.
Sexism:
Heterosexism:
Racism:
Ageism:
Week 9
Unfortunately sexism is a big part of our world. It is a hard thing to avoid when we are assigned a gender at birth. From our early stages of schooling we segregate ourselves to our sexes. Each group learns different idioms that are very intricate to how that gender communicates and acts with one another. It is a hard habit to break, but in writing it is important to realize that no one thing you are reporting about is gender specific. It is easier to write about the brave fire fighter, no one cares what gender the person is they only care about the story of their heroic deeds doing their job. I think when we break from the gender specific wording we get past the shock value of a “woman doing a man’s job” or visa versa. When we forget about how we are different we can really start writing about what is important, how we are the same.
I feel that I use my work examples more often than any other example and I do apologize for that. However, these examples are the most relevant examples that I can draw upon. I feel that I sometimes use language that resembles heterosexism, but it is always unintentional. For example, when I am referring to the delivery process for our orders, I refer to the delivery team as men way too often. Although I am sure that it is usually men that take care of our deliveries, it is not a definite and one could argue that I am acting as a sexist. I am certainly not trying to show any disrespect or any sexism, but I do this very often. I feel that this can be argued both ways, as well. Sometimes, when referring to gardening or to home improvement projects that are often taken care of by females, I unintentionally assume that it is a woman that will be partaking in these projects, rather than using objective language. I am certainly hoping that our customers do not take offense to this, but I feel that it is a very easy mistake to make.
Week 9 Justin Littlewood
Hello Everyone,
This week I feel like there is a
lot to write about with the four isms especially with a candidate like Donald
Trump around. Recently I was watching the Daily Show and they had a piece about
the national women’s soccer team and how they get paid less than the men’s team
even though they consistently bring in more money. The piece used sexist
language to drive home the ridiculousness in showing there should be no reason
that the women’s soccer team shouldn’t get paid as much as the men’s.
Awhile back
Facebook had the option of putting a rainbow overlay on profile pictures. Here
is an article talking about the problems and benefits of Facebook doing this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rainbow-profile-pictures-didnt-end-homophobia-so_us_57b5fc9ae4b007f181973efa
. The article itself does not use language that is homophobic, but talks about
the issues society has with it.
As for
racism, it depends on what news organization you get information from. In 2015
the Daily Beast reported that all Muslims in France believed that Jew were
involved in the attacks on Charlie Hebdo when in reality they had only
interviewed one Muslim who had this ideal.
As far as
ageism in news I am having a hard time finding an example. Although I do see it
in pop culture all the time and in actual television shows. The old person is
seen as someone who is forgetful and a burden to society.
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