When I started performing it, I was a lot angrier. I think it was part of the grieving process, for a while I was genuinely distressed. I think I reached a point of emotional maturity near the end of it.
I think this particular quote is super powerful and I think its a really tough thing to work serious things into standup shows and she did a really good job of being able to do that
I don’t think I’m very good at gay
I think this is something that many people in the LGBT community feel as though there is pressure on themselves to fit the criteria of being gay. I think when the stand up opened with this line, it was of course funny on the surface level, but it also made me think of how there is such a stereotype and standard that most gay people feel like they need to follow to fit in.
Alana and her family are constructed as content with who they are—a setup thatremoves us from feeling implicated in their marginality and the disadvantages theyface as a result.
I think it is super important that the family is still portrayed in this light, although they may still have judgements and assumptions about them. I think the film crew and editors definitely made it a point to show how "white trash" they were, which they did for views. I think it is good that they at least also showed people that the family was happy with each other and not suffering in any way, which hopefully gives the viewer more insight and education, and less assumptions.
My work focuses on how whiteness becomesvisible and racialized when combined with poverty, as evidenced by the term“whitetrash,”commonly applied to white people who are poor or part of the working-class.
The author says right before this quote that to be white is to possess no racial identity. This concept changes as soon as the white person is also in poverty and that is when they are generalized and assumed to be white trash. This is a sad notion that middle to high class white people do not face any discrimination based on color, but then as soon as it is pointed out that they are poor, they immediately are put in a group with people making assumptions.
Critical scholars are doing important work to address the oppressive ways in whichwhite working-class people have been portrayed in US media. According to theirresearch, this population is often depicted as stupid, criminal, racist, dirty, lazy, andriddled with addiction.
I think this is a very real fact that happens more often than not, and I think Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a perfect example of that. There is not much talk about drug addiction in the show, but they are more often than not portrayed as stupid and are most definitely given the white trash title.
There is no doubt that these performances had a progressive impact. They showed that gays are human -that is, that gays can be portrayed according to the norms of what it is to be human in this society
I think this quote is saying, that at the end of the day pushing all labels of each other aside we are all human.I like this quote because I think sometimes people get too caught up on having to label people and group them together and put them into these little boxes that you think they should be in. I think more often than not people kinda just wanna do what they want and love who they want and personally I think the concept of labeling a person and having that be a defining part about you is silly. I think the concept of sexuality should not be as big of a deal as people make it out to be and it should be normalized that people are just going to love and be with who they want to and there does not need to be labels attached because in the grand scheme of things it doesnt matter.
conography is a kind of short-hand - it places a character quickly and economic-ally. This is particularly useful for gay characters, for, short of showing physical gayness or having elaborate dialogue to establish it in the first few minutes, some means of communicating immediately that a character is gay has to be used.
This term is one I have never heard before but definitely makes sense and sounds interesting and not surprising that it is being used on shows and such.It is a useful tool to get a portrayal of someone out there right away so the audience knows exactly who they are.
o suggest the grotesque sterility of a woman loving another woman ( and so denying herself the chance of truly being a woman, i.e. a heterosexual mother).
The stereotype of women not being able to experience motherhood or being pregnant because they identify as lesbian is such an outdated concept.There are now so many ways for same sex couples to experience motherhood and to even carry their own children, not just adoption. I think there is a stigma around gay couples that most do not want children which is just a huge and incorrect stereotype.
For critics, this over-reliance on feelings means that celebrity activism falls short ofbasic criteria for proper and productive civic engagement. First, celebrity activismappears to lack substance (Kellner,2010; Wheeler,2012). Rather than rely on any kindof policy expertise, celebrities invite audiences to engage in their activist and politicalcauses by feeling what the celebrity feels.
I understand why this would be something critics think and to feel like the celebrities are almost using their fans in a way, but I totally disagree! If someone can use their platform for good, and reach out to different kinds of people to get involved then that is such a good way to use your influence. If fans or the general public do not like what a celebrity is trying to shed light to, then they can simply just not interact and do not need to do what the celebrity is asking of them.
Celebrities simultaneously maintain‘social distance’as famous people we will never meet, while revealing intimate aspects of their personallives through interviews, photo shoots, press events, and unauthorized paparazzi encoun-ters, which of course are always manufactured
I think this is something cool to think about. Celebrities have such an advantage with how to gain popularity and how to share just enough for the fan to be obsessed with them, but also leave out so much of their life leaving fans wanting more. Most celebrities dont do this on purpose but they know how to not overshare, while also making it seem like the audience knows tons about their personal life even if its down to their favorite place to eat or what show they are currently watching. It gives the fan some sort of feeling that they have an in with this celebrity, which makes it easier for the celebrity to be able to influence them when it comes to social issues.
Using Somerhalder’s celebrity activism as a case study, we draw upon on recent workon celebrity and intimacy to ask: How can a celebrity invite fans to use feelings of intimacyto engage in civic action?
The concept of being able to link the feeling of intimacy to engaging in civic engagement seems really powerful. This really shows how much influence characters have over fans with the fact that they are able to just be in character, and promote something important to their audience and get them involved. In the case from this specific actors character damon, the actor is using his influence and power over these people for good and getting them on board for things that really matter
This market function ofstarsis only one aspect or their economic importance. They are also a property on the strengthor whose name money can he raised for a film: they are an asset to the person (the star him/herself), studioand agent who controls them; they are a major part or the costof a film. Above all, they are part of the labour that producesfilm as a commodity that can he sold for profit in the marketplace.
This quote is really sad to me, but is unfortunately incredibly true. I feel as though as the years have gone on, this has gotten worse and worse. Agents and big companies signing these stars completely control and over work these people to the point of exhaustion. This reminds me of the theory about popular artists having no control over their own life down to them being able to drive a car. This specifically happened with Brittney Spears and it is a really upsetting story and if you do not know about it I definitely recommend researching more into it.
Images have to be made. Stars are produced by the media industries, film stars by Hollywood (or its equivalent in other countries) in the first instance, but then also by other agencies with which Hollywood is connected in varying waysand with varying degrees of influence.
I think this is a good description on how fame and hollywood can control and change a person. the line that stars are produced by media industries is pretty wild and raw. The fact that an industry of fame can rip a person up and turn them into this unrealistic standard of beauty is insane to me. Not even on the subject of beauty but also the way we are supposed to act and dress based on these unrealistic standards set out by the media.
Neatly, we have two Crawford reflections. The placing of the smaller one, central and in sharpest focus, might suggest that this is the one to be taken as the 'real' Crawford. Eve Arnold is known as a photographer committed to showing women 'as they really are'
I think this is a really cool concept and portrayal of people in the spotlight, and I think it was super progressive of the photographer to be able to see past fame and beauty at that time, and really dig in deeper to what truly was going on within people in the media and fame. I think people often forget that celebrity figures are not just there to be entertainment, they also are human beings who have lives and flaws as does everyone else.
Because individuals belong to overlapping communities and institutions, theyalso have overlapping ethical frameworks.
This quote makes me wonder if there is ever times within overlapping fluidity if people overlap within different groups that dont necessarily support the same things, or two groups you would not think would make sense together.
The HPA has conducted more than 30 campaigns on issues such assame-sex marriage, independent media, literacy, economic justice, bullying, hurri-cane relief, mental health, climate change, healthy body images, and fair trade (Aboutthe HPA). The HPA takes on a liberal political agenda focused on social justice,although it refrains from endorsing political candidates in elections.
This is example is a direct result of how fan bases can be fluid into social movement issues as well as politics, and how helpful they can be with important movements. It is a good example of fan bases putting themselves into these other groups to raise awareness and being fluid with where they exert their energies in regards to social movements and political ones as well
I argue that economic, social, and polit-ical shifts since the late 1970s have made the membership in those social institutionsand civic groups more fluid than ever before.
I agree with this statement, I think there was a huge shift in regards to politics, economics, and social movements that made it more easy for people to be fluid within groups whether it be that of the democratic party or even a specific fan base. The 1970s marked a huge shift in culture in regards to bigger movements getting more prominent like the womens rights, and gay rights as well as environmental movements. I think the social change of these movements becoming more popular, helped people be fluid in regards to membership in different groups