Bananaland documentary.
This documentary is just one of the many examples of what is happening to keep up this capitalist era. Seeing what it takes to provide these low prices is horrifying. I am very passionate about this topic, seeing the corporations and what they do for profit. It is as though profit has trumped humanity, as though human rights are not as important as money. Being exposed to just a few examples of what they do, I can guess that these people are only focused on money. They live, breathe, and worship money.
In this documentary, there was a story a woman had about when the terrorist organization Chiquita hired murdered her husband and raped her little 11 year old girl in front of her. These people were paid by Chiquita to keep the people under control, as though paying this money to them could not have been used to just pay the workers fair wages? These people are not asking to have better jobs, they are merely asking for fair wages from these corporations but instead this corporation thought a better allocation of money would be to hire a terrorist organization to keep them under control.
These people running these corporations are hidden, seeing as how when a corporation is put in the spotlight they are dubbed the corporations name, such as "Dole". They are not the people's names who made these decisions that the press let out. These companies do not run themselves, they are run by people. People like you and me, but people who have a very skewed way of thinking how life should be; all about profit. Being exposed to just a fraction of what happens behind closed doors has motivated me to give an honest effort in supporting an organic and fair society. It is cool to have things cheap and disposable, but at what cost? Seeing what happens to make these low prices happen makes me sick and hope for a better world in the future.
What is money if you do not have a family, friends, or respect for yourself? The worshipping of money is why the capitalist society thrives as it does and I know that voting with my dollars for a better world is a very small thing in the big-bad corporate world but at least it is something. Standing back and doing nothing is not an option.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Blog #3
"Be a man about it."
I have heard this saying numerous times in my life, and I am not even a man. Jon Dukes came into our class with a very interesting, different topic to talk about, something called the "Man Box." Now, whenever people think of someone being objectified, or being held to unrealistic standards, our minds always jump to women. It is not our fault, it is just what we are exposed to (AKA the social media). Jon, on the other hand, brought up these topics but with men in mind. Men, just as women, face the unrealistic standards imposed upon us by the media. Why does no one talk about men? Well, my theory is because they do not talk about it themselves.
The men in my life, most anyway, fit fairly well into this thing Jon introduced, a "Man Box." A "Man Box" is something that women and men have put men into. "Be a man about it" is just one of the examples that men hear on the daily. It is society's view that men should have the power, be the breadwinners, have exceptional muscle tone, and so on. Everyone knows it, this is what we consider to be a so called "man." And this is what the "Man Box" is, where all of these traits lie and thus, where men "should" lie as well.
Now, these traits are not by any means bad, for if we had no one to lead, we would not get anywhere. If families did not have anyone to make the money, they would starve. And having exceptional muscle tone can, if speaking about all natural muscle tone, be indicative of a very healthy individual. It is the fact that these traits that men are "supposed" to have have caused those who don't match up to feel inferior and bad about themselves that makes the "Man Box" bad. Who is to say that a man cannot be a stay-at-home dad? Or brush his daughters hair and paint her nails? These acts have been seen as "women's duties" and therefore if men do them they are some how emasculated. Now, these views I believe are starting to change. I believe that we are already seeing a shift-change to being more flexible about what is feminine and what is masculine, and it is awesome to see.
Thinking that men go through having to live up to unrealistic standards just as women do is, in an odd way, enlightening. I mean this in a way that, as much as men make themselves seem emotionless and strong most of the time, that they too are human and feel just as much as women do but just express themselves differently.
I have heard this saying numerous times in my life, and I am not even a man. Jon Dukes came into our class with a very interesting, different topic to talk about, something called the "Man Box." Now, whenever people think of someone being objectified, or being held to unrealistic standards, our minds always jump to women. It is not our fault, it is just what we are exposed to (AKA the social media). Jon, on the other hand, brought up these topics but with men in mind. Men, just as women, face the unrealistic standards imposed upon us by the media. Why does no one talk about men? Well, my theory is because they do not talk about it themselves.
The men in my life, most anyway, fit fairly well into this thing Jon introduced, a "Man Box." A "Man Box" is something that women and men have put men into. "Be a man about it" is just one of the examples that men hear on the daily. It is society's view that men should have the power, be the breadwinners, have exceptional muscle tone, and so on. Everyone knows it, this is what we consider to be a so called "man." And this is what the "Man Box" is, where all of these traits lie and thus, where men "should" lie as well.
Now, these traits are not by any means bad, for if we had no one to lead, we would not get anywhere. If families did not have anyone to make the money, they would starve. And having exceptional muscle tone can, if speaking about all natural muscle tone, be indicative of a very healthy individual. It is the fact that these traits that men are "supposed" to have have caused those who don't match up to feel inferior and bad about themselves that makes the "Man Box" bad. Who is to say that a man cannot be a stay-at-home dad? Or brush his daughters hair and paint her nails? These acts have been seen as "women's duties" and therefore if men do them they are some how emasculated. Now, these views I believe are starting to change. I believe that we are already seeing a shift-change to being more flexible about what is feminine and what is masculine, and it is awesome to see.
Thinking that men go through having to live up to unrealistic standards just as women do is, in an odd way, enlightening. I mean this in a way that, as much as men make themselves seem emotionless and strong most of the time, that they too are human and feel just as much as women do but just express themselves differently.
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