This article is poorly written. It’s entitled: Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain.
Can this title be any more misleading? I clicked on this link from the teacher’s website thinking “Oh jeez…not another one of these ‘lawsuit issues’.” (Many people these days make such big deals out of small things.) Instead, I got something even worse after reading the whole thing.
The first sentence caught my attention. I even thought about applauding this article for throwing away stereotypical views.
If the author had stopped right there, I would have heartedly agreed with Rosenbloom. However, I had a bad feeling when I saw many more words under that sentence.
I should apply to be a psychic right now.
I am glad that more females are using the internet, but I really think what I just said there contradicts with my views on the equality of the sexes.
Excuse me, Nicole, but I doubt that most of us guys here don’t have patience for “this kind of thing”. I really wanna say that “13-year olds don’t really hang out with many people of the opposite gender” but that’s also contradicting my views on stereotypes. But…I have a tendency to mock people when they’re making views that seem ignorant/not well-thought out. So yes, I will say that 13-year olds don’t really hang out with many people of the opposite gender.
And yes, I have read the 2 paragraphs below that paragraph. What really caught my eye was:
“If you did a poll I think you’d find that boys rarely have sites,” she said. “It’s mostly girls.”
“Indeed, a study published in December by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that among Web users ages 12 to 17, significantly more girls than boys blog.”
I really don’t believe in studies. There’s too many factors to take into account to make an accurate representation of what people do and whatnot.
Maybe some of those boys that don’t like to blog are just getting started. Maybe something bad happened to some of these people to keep them away from blocking. Maybe their mood was rather bitter towards people that make them take these studies. Studies are just too fluctuated in factors to be accurate.
I mean, the article doesn’t even link to the article of the study.
Hey, just wait a gosh darn minute!
Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Why didn’t I notice this sooner?
Not only does this article rely on a study that may not be 100% accurate, but an American one?
They didn’t take into consideration of the people outside of the United States. Now that’s just biased.
Jeez, it’s not like people from other countries blog too. I mean this article may very well be as fabricated as this article. Yes, I do realize it’s from 2003, but still.
I sure hope you didn’t take me seriously just now. Sarcasm is hard to express in just words on the internet, or on any piece of writing, actually. Sometimes I hope that the whole article I’m writing about (read: tearing it apart) is 100% sarcastic. Then we can have a good laugh. But alas, with the serious tone of the article, I really doubt it.
There is another part of the article that I actually agree with.
“scholars argue…both sexes are influenced by cultural expectations…”
Finally. Something the article gets right!
This is the one thing that pisses me off in life.
CULTURAL EXPECTATIONS.
Directly related to stereotypes, definitely.
Apparently, in this culture, I am “expected” to not like blogging, and people are SURPRISED by the fact of if I were to enjoy blogging.
Grow up people.
The world is not so predictable for you. You will have to realize that not everyone is the same.
No, no. “Most people are” doesn’t cut it at all.
Actually, a friend of mine (who is dyslexic) has helped defend me to teach someone to not force me to be something I am not.
This is a direct copy and paste from Facebook, with all his dyslexic-ness.
“Saying. loliliciousss i can only assume its not a lolicon type of desire you find in phil but instead that he is all loli like him self and is there for not falling into the male stereotype witch you find so Atrocious to break. Well let me tell you that people atualy have opinions of likes and desires. The world is not so predictable and easy for you. i’m so sorry. You’re going to have to accept that some people, my self included like all those things you may label as for little girls. You need to think. Thats what you need to do.
Gender has little to do with personality if it was not for social influences. Example in some cultures men ware short skirts, and the women don’t ware any thing above there knees. I can only assume that you as well probably just follow set rules not following what you truly desire if you label all males as suppose to being one way you must believe women have to be another.”
I think this quote speaks for itself.
And no, I am not explaining the unfamiliar terms.
All I want for people to realize is that stereotypes are not an accurate representation of what people truly are. Going solely by cultural expectations defeats the purpose of the potential uniqueness an individual may have.
I’m too tired now. I think that’s everything I have to say. For now. I may edit this later.
(It’s kind of hard for me to be casual in a blog intended for academic purposes.)
(Note: If everyone wondered why I had a large picture, that was unintentional. It was meant to be a small picture, but for some reason messed up. I have many similar pictures with related names on the laptop where I wrote this entry.)
Ni~pah~.
