Alexander

Male

Job

Money

Strength

Sports

Videogames

Building shit

Making sure the house stays together

Some-what-in-charge

Grills

Lawn

Female

Babies

Elementary Teachers

Clean

Some-what-in-charge

Soccer-mom

Treats

Cooks

Garden

The author points out that there is an over saturation of male writings in the class room as opposed to female writings. I call BS. Frankenstein? Harry Potter? The Hunger Games? All written by women all very popular among teens in school. Maybe not Frankenstein.

I found the article very dry and did not agree with most of it. Throughout the reading I wanted to kill myself with a plastic butter knife. The author, Jonathan Alexander, should just turn in his man card now because not even most women are that feministic. Yes, I bet it’s great that over the past couple decades women and men have begun composing works with a feminist background, but in the end, doe it even matter? A story is a story and an article is an article. It shouldn’t matter how they are written and who wrote them. All that shouldn’t even be a secondary concern. It should be a concern at all. I will never understand the inner workings of a feminist’s mind, nor do I want to. This is just awful. I feel like I am developing a slight tumor just by trying to get into Jonathan’s mind set. I can’t.  

Henson IWA

In the Jim Henson videos, it makes a point to show the slight sexism shown in Greek mythology.

Most of the plot derives from a Greek King not being able to have a son but many daughters. This is a problem as he needs a son to continue his family name. Unfortunately he gets a prophecy that his daughter will have a son and that he would be killed by his own grandson. After the boy, Perseus, is born, the king casts him and his mother away to be someone else’s problem. Perseus’s mother then gets engaged to someone who is quite frankly what some people would call a jackass. To stop the weeding, Perseus must get the head of the Gorgon, Medusa. To achieve his goal he gets the help of the gods and teases some old blind ladies for information (what a jerk, I know!) Long story short- He kills the gorgon and uses the head to turn his would-be step father to stone. He also kills his grandfather.

I liked how the story was told and the way the dog kept interrupting to mimic questions children ask during stories. It added to the effect of storytelling that kids can easily relate to. The production value of the show was also very good. No shitty acting to be found for the most part.