Twitter and the Election

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"Hipster"

What exactly is a hipster? I think people; well society has the wrong impression of what a hipster actually is. People in society, myself included sometimes judge people by the way they appear. I think now days it’s easier to put a specific label on a person by the way they appear, for example the way they dress, music they listen to and lifestyle they live.  I don’t think I’m a hipster but some would say I have some hipster characteristics. I’m a very spontaneous person; I enjoy practically everything, it’s more difficult for me not to like something rather than to like it. Anyone who who really knows me would know, I’m not a hipster, and neither are many other people in society but we get labeled as one, why is that? I do things I like to do, if it happens to be what’s popular then so be it. Does that make you a hipster?

I believe more people appear to be hipsters to our eyes but in reality they’re just being themselves. I think this all coincides with the article we read, I believe it was called the “cool Hunter”. Well in this article it talked about a women that worked for a company and her job was to travel to different states, in the most well known places in town to look for cool people, and cool ideas they had. Her job was to bring that specific idea she found from her travels to her company and they would then use that idea as an upcoming product.  Is it our fault what we happen to like is what’s popular. After all it’s suppose to be cool.  The “Cool Hunter” thought it was cool, why is a crime if we do to? Is it because we didn’t come up with the idea ourselves?  Well neither did The “Cool Hunter” so does that make them a hipster. We get the new styles we find in most stores, and if they got their ideas from some random person walking the streets of NYC, does that make the them a hipster as well? That makes me think… Then in some way or form everyone is a hipster in a certain way, or are hipsters getting a bad rap by society?

"Long Game"

I really like this article; I enjoy hearing about new ideas people think will help better our world. I love what she’s trying to do but the real question is will it work? My honest opinion, I’d say no. It is totally unrealistic for McGonigal to get the whole world to play a 1,000-year long game. First of all who would want to play a game that would take you tons and tons of missions to beat, especially if it isn’t interesting. This society we live in today is all about peed. These days the games are 15 missions max. Let’s just say you did beat the game or even played the game for good length of time, why would that all of a sudden make you want to go out and change the world? I’ve played tons of games but I never had they made me want to change the world. My father could tell me go do something to better the environment and I probably wouldn’t do it so I know for sure a game couldn’t make me. McGonigal could get some people to invest their time; like in the article they referenced Michelle Obama and her apps for getting kids to lose weight.  McGonigal could gain some gamers that way over a period of time but nowhere near the amount of people she’s looking for. There are too many cons that go into this. What if your specific home doesn’t own a game console? Would everyone have to go out and by one? How many women do you know that want to sit at home and play missions on a video game? In the article she says that her games would have to be amusing for people to want to keep playing but how can you make a game amusing to all ages? That would be my biggest concern.  Can you make a game and actually all ages enjoy playing?

"Tupac Hyper-masculinity"

What I really liked about this article was that they make it clear that the media may have had the wrong impression on Tupac by his songs and masculinity. It amuses me how the article states that Tupac was teased as a child for being a pretty boy, because now the only image people have on Tupac is this thug gangster rapper. You can even go back to his earlier music, it was real happy and the sound of his music made people want to get up and dance. This article makes a lot of good points. I agree with the fact that Tupac changed because his style from the beginning wasn’t accepted but I also think that since he was so close to the drugs, sex and gang violence that it was easy for him to change his style and be more rough and thuggish.  Since that worked and people liked that he ran with it, which led to the reason why the media and people have that gangster image of him. That also ties into his rap lyrics. Tupac’s rap lyrics did not promote violence, he talked about violence and committing violent crimes but I never took any of them as him telling me to go out and commit crimes.  As far as the “Cool Pose” and the “Ladies Man” topics I find that to be so true I think everyman has that cool pose that’s what makes them distinct from one another by the way they walk talk and dress. Everyman wants to be loved by the ladies, well at least all the men I know. I don’t know why we do but we do, it must be I our blood. I mean that’s all my friends talk about is getting women but we cant blame our generation for this because that’s all we know that’s what we are being taught is right.  That’s what we see when we turn on the television.  Why do men always have to be masculine? Why couldn’t Tupac be “artsy”? 

"Why Women Aren't Funny"

I do agree that Men are far funnier than women and this article makes some really good points. If I’m not mistaken the first article stated that men have to perform the task of impressing the opposite sex, which is indefinitely true. One way men impress women is by making them laugh and what women doesn’t like to laugh? While reading this article the author kind of makes it seem like, well at least to me that men feel the need to be funnier than women.  Just like the author says there are more male comedians than females and the females that are comedians are most likely gay. What I also understood about this article was that Men could be funnier because they take life less serious and they’re more childish as opposed to women who would prefer that life be fair, and even sweet, rather than the sordid mess it actually is. I find this to be effectively true. Don’t think I’m like a sexist, I also agree that women can be funny and there are some really funny women in this world. The way I perceive it is that there are far more women then men on this earth so I’m sure there are bound to be some funny women out there. My nineteen years on this earth I’ve met plenty of funny women but none that I consider as funny as a male.  What I did take into consideration is that Women don’t necessarily feel the need to be funny as opposed to men. Women are not as funny as men because women are not always comfortable talking about certain subjects, although that’s not saying women cant be good host. As we’ve seen so far there can be funny women host but at the same time I think men will always and forever be funnier.

“This is Not Natural:”

Reading the article “this is not natural Caster Semenya’s gender threats” really raised my eye to a lot of things. This article was very interesting to me; it actually made me really mad. Why do people judge? I just don’t get it. In the article it states that Semenya’s performance in all her races raised suspension about her sex. She’s a top athlete its not like she’s one of these high school athletes trying to make it, to the state finals, she’s arguably the best female runner in the world. What do you expect from arguably the fastest women in sports? I don’t understand why people would make these assumptions just because she’s much better than the competition. Why is she there competing to be the best if she gets ridiculed for doing her best?  In the article it also talks about how Semenya also looks like a male but to me what do looks have anything to do with being a male or female? Yes people in today’s world label each and everyone as male or female by simply the way they look but if you can’t then you have to simply look at the birth certificate or do test.  What I don’t understand is why people in todays world even make these labels about people. The article states that she wears pants and dresses like a man and as a child played with boys. It states she wasn’t into being a girly girl. Everyone is different and just because she doesn’t want to be the normal kind of “women” that society is use to seeing she gets penalized. I don’t believe that you can be in between a male or a female either. If you are born with both parts then you decide at that time to be male or female. She obviously doesn’t have a penis so that would make her a female in my eyes. Gender is an all or nothing thing to me.