Hi there, my name is Katharina Zardinskas and im a junior. I have an older brother than goes to Ohio State and a godson who was just born Dec. 4, he is my world :) I just trasfered here from Bluffton University which is by Findlay, Ohio. Most people know of Bluffton from the baseball bus crash in Alanta Georgia 4 years ago. I played varsity Basketball and Soccer for them which was a lot of fun but my life was hetic with traveling every where. I liked Bluffton but i felt it was to small of a school for me and wanted something bigger.(my high school had more people) I graduated from Reynoldsburg High School which is out side of Columbus. Im a Political Science Major and i would like to become an International Relations Officer for Ohio when i graduate and maybe run for office one day. I also have a minor in Business and have interned in the Marketing Department in a Company called R.G. Barry in Columbus. Im currently taking a womens gender studies class also so i think it will help me with writing about women in this class. I decided to take this class because i thought it would be intresting to see how women are viewed and to write about it.
While reading Bordo's "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity" she says there is a plight of women. I feel like the media makes women this way. You see these images every day and feel the need to compete with that image and look a certain way. That where you get this plight of women who diet, exercise so they can achive this look. A girl in class said even her friend cuts out a ad with a women whose body she wants to achive. Bordo say there is hope for these women if they relize what they are doing. I think as long as a women can see an ad and know that that type of body may not be realistic and not try to achive it but instead try to achive a better/heathier body for themself then there is hope. As long as ad's are showing women as these thin stick like women some women are going to try to achive that body and might take it to extrems.
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Hi Katharina,
ReplyDeleteFirst I just wanted to say that I know Bluffton University! My hometown is Ottawa, Ohio so I’ve been to the Shannon Theaters many times! I also have a friend who plays on the basketball team there so you may even know him. We’ll have to talk about it in class sometime.
Anyways, I can relate to the girl’s friend who cut the ad out and hung it up for “inspiration” because I was ‘that’ girl freshman year here. I was determined not to gain the freshman 15 and to ook like Cameron Diaz at her thinnest?!! lol Ok not really determined, but I posted her picture on the mini fridge so if I’d be reminded that I don’t want to overdo the snack foods or to ask myself if I was really hungry or just thirsty (there is a big difference). My roommate commented on the picture saying “see, that’s not really realistic for my body type and I know I’m never going to look like that, so why bother looking at it at all?!” I knew the goal of looking like Cameron Diaz was also a fantasy since I was blessed with a curvy chest and buttocks. Ha! Still I wanted motivation to put the food down if I really wasn’t hungry. So I switched it to a picture of a healthy looking girl (not too skinny, not over weight, and not famous) who was dancing and laughing. It looked like she was having more fun than what Cameron was doing in her pic anyways! So if I had to "look up to" one more rather it be the 'dancing queen'!