In watching the video of 'Killing Us Softly' and piggybacking off of my last post on bell hooks video on 'cultural criticism'. First and foremost even though I may have said in the last post bell hooks does contributed toward racism, which I still stand by (hope not to offend anyone). I would also like to say that her views are incredible accurate and that she brings up phenomenal points surrounding our culture and media on ethnicity.
The video 'Killing Us Softly' created by the ideas of Jean Kilbourne had one segment that really stands out to me, which was the way youth were depicted in media. She showed clips of young boys and girl photographed together. But in each photo the boy is looking down on girl and has a facial expression like he hold the power. In fact, the only way in which the white female looks down upon another males is with another ethnicity. This made me go back to many of hooks views and I thought how disturbing, at least to extent, these photos of youth had been in relations to ethnicity and femininity.
I know a lot of what bell hooks express in her writings (at least in what we read and watched) are about the superior (in this case the white male) and how they control our culture through media. This is really messed up, but I was also think what if the (Quote-UN-Quote)---> "superior" was another ethnicity??? In my opinion it would be the completely same situation in how these rich white yuppie CEO's work, but just flip flopped to another ethnicity. I have come to the conclusion that you need to have a equal amount of ethical powers in order to keep from this problem with superiority... If anyone one has a better idea please post below.
The video 'Killing Us Softly' created by the ideas of Jean Kilbourne had one segment that really stands out to me, which was the way youth were depicted in media. She showed clips of young boys and girl photographed together. But in each photo the boy is looking down on girl and has a facial expression like he hold the power. In fact, the only way in which the white female looks down upon another males is with another ethnicity. This made me go back to many of hooks views and I thought how disturbing, at least to extent, these photos of youth had been in relations to ethnicity and femininity.
I know a lot of what bell hooks express in her writings (at least in what we read and watched) are about the superior (in this case the white male) and how they control our culture through media. This is really messed up, but I was also think what if the (Quote-UN-Quote)---> "superior" was another ethnicity??? In my opinion it would be the completely same situation in how these rich white yuppie CEO's work, but just flip flopped to another ethnicity. I have come to the conclusion that you need to have a equal amount of ethical powers in order to keep from this problem with superiority... If anyone one has a better idea please post below.
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