Final Blogtastic Reflection (#4)

For my final blog reflection for 4th quarter, I chose "Blagojevich on 'Celebrity Apprentice'" as my favorite blog post. The reason I like this one so much is because I feel very strongly about the subject. This usually characterizes my favorite posts. When you're really passionate about what you're writing about, it just makes it a lot more fun to write. And when I saw that Blagojevich was on a reality t.v. show and not in jail, I was just outraged. I was also able to incorporate a bunch of sources in this post, which I think adds depth and more credibility to a post. And from those sources, I used direct quotes and dissected them to prove my point even more. It just had more substance than some of my other posts.
This year I have really developed as a blogger. Not that I blogged before this class, but my style has changed since the beginning of the year. I started my blogging career by mostly writing about certain issues that I encountered in my everyday life, but didn't necessarily connect to class. But as the year continued, my posts started to become extensions of class discussions, which is what I think Mr. Bolos and Mr. O'Connor intended them to be. And when I could not extend the discussion to my blogging, I wrote about prominent issues in the news. Not always, but I tried to.
I have really enjoyed blogging this year because I do like to write, but essays can often times be laborious and they take a long time to do. On the other hand, a blog post doesn't have to be long. You can write a little about a lot, and that's what I've really liked about blogging this year.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Barbie 1961

     The other day, looking for something to do, my friend pulled out a Barbie board game. It's from 1991 but it was a second edition of the original game that came out in 1961. We've played this game before, but it wasn't until now that I sensed something wrong with it. First of all, it's called "Queen of the Prom." But it really gets bad when you get to the objective of the game. To win, you have to get a boyfriend, become president of a club, and buy a dress, and that's how you become prom queen. I took some pictures of the game with my phone so I wouldn't forget things that really stuck out to me. The slogan of the game is: "A fun game with real-life appeal for all girls!" And one of the squares on the board reads: "Soda fountain. Pay $1 if without boyfriend."
     I found this game to be extremely interesting because I got a glimpse of what life must have been like for women in the 1960's, especially because this game claims to have real-life appeal for all girls. Women were expected to get boyfriends, get married, have kids, maintain the home. And this game really reinforced and reflected on the idea that in the early 1960's, a woman's place was in the home. A girl's biggest worry was getting a boyfriend, and apparently becoming prom queen. As much as I found this somewhat shocking, even though I already knew about this time period, it also made me happy at the same time because it showed me how far we've come. Girls go on to college all the time, they have careers, they can have dreams outside of the home. According the United States Department of Labor, in 2008, women made up 46.5% of the total workforce. So as much I liked having Ken as my boyfriend, I know that I don't need to depend on him for my happiness. (Well this is really going to get me a boyfriend. jk jk lol but not really).

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  1. Anna.SDecember 9, 2009 at 9:31 PM

    I have totally played this game, and I love it. I remember playing it with my friend in 6th grade, and we would laugh about how dependent Barbie was on her parents and boyfriend. But if you think about it, the entertainment business is a clear reflection of the state of society, and people like Barbie certainly existed. Though we think its strange now, imagine what people will think of us, Zozo, in 40 years (provided the world doesn't explode in 2012)

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