Greg Doucet's Current Event

Hello class, I want to first start by saying that I was unable to post my blog on friday because my internet was down, and for that I am very sorry for the inconvinience.

My current event event was about how women are being apart of advertisements that can be offensive and unhealthy for other women viewers, specifiacally in this article, the popular women's fashion store: Victoria's Secret. Women inn the nineteenth and early twentyeth century were not as obsessed or concerned about having the "perfect" body to fit into society. Women wanted to be appriciated not by their looks, but by their career acomplishments including suffrage and equal rights.

As you may already know, Victoria's Secret uses models to advertise the desighner's clothing that possess physical qualities of what society would desribe as the "perfect" body image. These advertisements put a negative outlook on what an average women's body image is and what it should be. Researchers clause it as "unhealthy sexualization" concluding with the fact that many young women and children feel they have to be "perfect" and look like the super models on television in order to get the right man and society to notice them. Many of these researchers such as Nicole Clark are trying to make the point to other women and young teenagers that physical apperance does not matter in order to be successfull and be happy, they encourage viewers to raise their self esteem, and love themselves for who they are and their intellegence to pursue a fulfilled career.

In your opinion, do you belive what is wrong and disrespectful for desighner clothing lines to advertise women with socieies ideal "perfect" physical qualities in order to grab the viewers and men's attention to a women? Also in a more broad term, do you think women today are being more taken notice for physical appearance than being noticed for a woman's moral and career based acomplishments such as politics and sciences?

For more information on this topic, go to: http://www.ourhometown.ca/lifestyle/RK0010.php

Kayla's Current Event

My current event was on how women are not allowed in direct combat while in war. Also, it is harder for women to move up in the rankings and receive medals and honors like men do. Women can move up and they can receive medals and honors, but its much harder for a woman to than a man. Students from the University of Virginia School of Law are trying to get this changed so women can participate in combat.

The article says that women already sort of are in combat by going to the villages and becoming close with the villagers. In some cases that can be just as dangerous as the actual fighting. Another argument is that women aren't fit enough to fight. There have been military tests done to show that they can be just as capable as some men.

For more information go to: http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2011/dec/04/uva-law-team-fights-equality-women-combat-ar-1513873/

So, do you thing women should be allowed to fight in combat for our country? Why/why not? And if they already sort of are fighting, why would it be so much harder for them to get honored for it?