· Identify a section or passage from your memoir that would be worth analyzing through one of the lenses. Summarize this section briefly, in a sentence or two.
· Then analyze this section or passage through one of the lenses in a few sentences.
· Close your blog post with a lens question related to your analysis, that any classmate—no matter which memoir they are reading, can respond to. (Examples: Is anyone else starting to feel that their memoirist’s memory is unreliable? Is anyone else’s memoirist struggling with his/her performance of gender role norms? Is anyone else seeing examples blurred lines between the “colonizer” and the “colonist”?)
· Respond to at least 2 of your peers’ posts.
Nina is at a meeting with Mr. Stevens and says something that he didn't expect of her. But instead of her getting props, she is made fun of. This can be analyzed through post-colonial theory because she is being othered by her boss because of her southern accent. Do you think there is any space for diversity in the corporate world (ex. on Wall Street)
ReplyDeleteThere is always "space" for everything, as long as you are willing to make room for it.. However, the corporate community is not focused on employing more women or minorities, because they would rather maintain their employee image that has succeeded them over many years, which is a typical wealthy white man. Just like the corporate community has the ability to transfer their capital gains to pay off higher taxes, however they choose not to, and instead invest that liquid asset and result in gaining more profit for their own benefit and not anyone else in society.
DeleteDiversity is crucial in all aspects of life so, of course there is space for it in the corporate world. Your voice is powerful, you'd be surprised at what it can do.
DeleteThere is space for diversity but it isn't always welcomed especially diversity towards women in the corporate world. Yes we have a voice and it can go far but it may just travel without a meaning and be completely ignored in our hard work to finally be noticed as important. Diversity is given it's own space but that space might not always be clean and welcomed.
DeleteThere definitely is a space for diversity in the corporate world, just because someone has an accent doesn't mean they're less smarter than anyone else.
DeleteAgreed that there is space for diversity on the corporate world, but Corporate America has an image to hold up to and gender and racial discriminations are the least factor of them of all.
DeleteI agree with Hazel, in the Corporate World you have to speak up or else people wouldn't recognize you and your ideas.
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ReplyDeleteMalala describes how from an early age she was subjected to restrictions and wasn't expected to do much. This can be seen from the gender lens as she and her mother have restrictions placed on them because they're girls. How do gender roles shape how society view people?
ReplyDeleteGender roles are a big issue that unforgettably still take place. Gender roles placed on women do nothing but place targets on their backs. Women are altered to look a certain way and are expected to act a certain way.
DeleteGender roles take a huge toll on how society is shaped to view people because for a man things usually come easy they have advantages especially in the workforce. Now for a woman she has to dress a certain way, act a certain way, and she has to meet the requirements that have been placed on her. Women are basically the color in a bulls eye, they are always attacked whether or not they do something, there will always be fault in them.
DeleteI agree with Hazel and Divena because gender roles do have a significant impact in our modern society. Malala lives in Pakistan, and the Taliban have total control over their people. They don't like the women and girls going to school because they don't believe in girls' education. They want them to stick to the traditional gender roles of cooking, cleaning and raising families.
DeleteUnfortunately gender can play a negative role in the society, especially for women. Women are not expected to do certain work because it is supposedly "manly work".
DeleteGender roles changeour view on people, because men and women will get categorized differently based on them being male or female
DeleteI agree because gender roles is an issue when it comes to workforce because it can be categorized as a man job.
DeleteJen plans on visiting New York with her parents and brother, since she would be in the city she mentions that it would be the perfect time to meet her online friend/ pen pal. Once she tells her pen pal about her trip he responds back by saying he's not taking her out on a date nor will he pay for her meal. This can be analyzed through the gender lens because we can assume that he only mentions the payment of the meal because society generally holds men responsible for paying for the women. I wonder if any other memoirist dealt with non- "traditional" acts such as the women paying for the meal.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with your perspective on gender lens and it's relation. Why does society give us that image of men ? Why does society "make" men accountable for the bill instead of the female?
DeleteNina is attending her first meeting at her new job on Wall Street when all of a sudden her Texan accent came out and she used the term "y'all" (Godiwalla 27) and she is made fun off by her boss. This can be looked at through the Post - Colonial Theory because Nina is being othered by her boss in front of all her colleagues due to her accent and because she's different. Do you believe that her gender was part of the reason she was being othered?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you with the othering. I don't necessarily see her being "colonized" because of her gender but she was colonized and labeled as different because of her accent and where she came from. And often people from the Southern states have that accent that would be considered strange in states like in New York and so forth.
DeleteI don't know for sure but I think that gender doesn't really play a role in her being othered, after all she is in wall street with a southern accent.
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DeleteThere would have been othering either way I think but maybe her being a women did make it easier to other her.
DeleteIn the memoir, "I am Malala," Malala talks about how her father had founded the school she had attended in Pakistan. It was an all-girls school, but unfortunately, it got bombed by the Taliban because they did not believe in girls' education. Malala reflects on this moment, believing that her mother and herself are restricted to doing domestic chores due to the traditional gender roles placed upon them by society, especially those from the male community.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with Malala, but you need a question.
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DeleteWhy are women considered unfit for education?
DeleteThe passage that caught my attention is on page 8 where Jen is talking online and meets Ebenezer. She first thinks that he was a pervert because his is a man chatting with strangers online, but later she had a great conversation with no strings attached. In this passage I feel like he is being othered by her because she generalizes men to be creeps. She was skeptical about him because in her past experience with men she had been sexually harassed online. Thinking of all of this my question is what is the mental thinking women go through before categorizing a man as a creep, nice, and etc.?
ReplyDeletewell, obviously if she already had experiences with men being creeps then it will change her perspective on how she views men online. You need to put yourself in her shoes in order to understand what is going in her "mental thinking".
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DeleteI cannot speak for most women, but I will not
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In Bossypants, Tina Fey asked her mother if she could shave her legs when she was 10 years old. Why is it that women are supposed to pretend that they were born without any hair on their body and if they decide to let her body hair grow, why is she the center of attraction in the society? But for guys, it's a totally different story.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Even though guys also have things to worry about that society can criticize them for, women do have it worse
DeleteI completely agree.. this definately speaks out to the doubke standards we live through in society how women are expected to look so pure and young, but men do not have such standards to live up to.
DeleteI completely agree.. this definately speaks out to the doubke standards we live through in society how women are expected to look so pure and young, but men do not have such standards to live up to.
DeleteSociety creates images for how everyone should act but just because they are there doesn't mean that people have to become those images.
DeleteWhile Senior manager Mr. Stevens, speaks to the interns on how to take advantage of the potential repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, he implies that the interns are too young to know about such a time period. Nina immediately jumps in, before he furthers his explanation, and proceeds to convey her opinion. A combo of gender lens and post colonial both came to mind when reading this section, due to Nina previously stating she was one of only 2 girls in the internship that had a voice, therefore being surrounded by a group of men and a senior male manager would definitely call for a female to speak out. Shows how strong minded women can be and how much power a women could have in a second. On the other hand post colonial theory is another one that came to mind because Nina is considered the " other" and the unusual one she is the colonized and her manager was the colonizer but the roles ended up being flipped and both individuals had as much power in an instance. What does Corporate America have in relation to other countries that as well 'other' women in the work force ?
ReplyDeleteTina Fey talks about how beauty standards that was exposed to her as a child, for example blue eyes, spanish lips, asian skin with a little tan...etc. From a young age, she knew these were the expectations of womens beauty standards and if one did not meet these requirements, one had to work until she got it. I viewed this through gender lens. How does this idea affect our society today? And is this idea similar to a males beauty standard?
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting how exotic means different, but the way a person views that exotic can be in a positive or negative light.
DeleteTina Fey uses the post colonial lens as well as the gender lens in her novel. In Bossypants, we can see the author colonize herself by using her physical features as a way to other herself from the other "beautiful girls" who were blonde and bronze skinned. She explains how most boys were attracted to those girls rather than girls who looked like her, brunette, scrawny, etc. This displays how corrupt society is for the reason that it ensures thirteen year old boys to other groups of people by setting high standards for girls and force them to conform. On the other hand, boys do not have the responsibility to perfect themselves or their image.
ReplyDeleteMindy Kaling talks about bringing skittles to class everyday in elementary school so people would be her friends and that society has influenced her. This is post colonial theory because she is being the colonizer by using skittles to colonize others into being her friends as well as society colonizing her into being influenced by it. Does anyone else's memoirist actually say thatthey have been influenced by society?
ReplyDeleteMalala is a very interesting character because she understand that there is something terrible happening. Instead of finding way to solve the problem, she looks for ways to educated people of what is wrong and bad and that is truly something inspiring. I feel that Malala has so much power to great things but is restricted due to her gender. Do you guys see gender roles in your books, and how that's stopping your character from doing better?
ReplyDeleteYes I see a lot of gender roles in my book because this woman came from Texas and she was made fun of because of her southern accent.
DeleteIn the memoir suits Nina says something to her boss and she gets made fun of. This can be a relation to post colonial theory because instead of everybody giving her the respect she needs, they are making fun of her because of her southern accent.
ReplyDeleteNina is the only person who hasn't gone to an Ivy league out of her intern group, and her inter coworkers categorize her into a different category. Her behavior and background also puts her in a situation to be "othered" by her coworkers.
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