Hello all,
Needless to say our discussions in class have spilled over to my break, my ride home quickly turned into an hour long conversation about women in the media with my mom. I think she was surprised as I went on and on...
I found this article on my facebook feed last week and to me, while the article itself is shocking and awful, it reveals one of my biggest points on the whole Seth MacFarlane situation. At the end of it all, Mr. MacFarlane is a comedian, who makes his living entertaining, and in truth offending people. I do not trust a single decision in my life to him, or any other comedian for that matter. While perhaps the Oscars was not the right stage for this kind of casual talk about women, I would say congress is certainly not the place for this kind of ignorance. Elected politicians like the one quoted in this article are people that we, as American citizens, do trust to make choices to protect and serve us. I would have liked to have seen this situation receive the kind of vitriolic reactions that the Oscars had.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/nh-lawmaker-says-some-people-might-like-being
Read and think about this- why do we focus so much on "celebrity" opinion, rather than the people who make our laws?
Hope break is treating you all well!
Maggie M.
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