Standing Ovation: Reading Responce #5

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Reading Responce #5 - Stupid Girls

The music video “stupid girl” by P!nk is all about its name. This video starts off with a little girl watching a class of woman students all sitting . Soon enough, beside the little girl appear the angel version of p!nk and the devil p!nk and begin to murmur “stupid girl“ to the little girl sitting on the couch. The television starts off with a teacher and all the female students are mocking the teacher as she waves her hair as if they are being taught how to do it. The little girl flips her hair as the girls on TV and proceeds to change the channel. Next appears p!nk in a suit and sings “What happened to the dream of a girl president She's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent,” next of course appeared p!nk dancing her butt next to the rapper 50 cent. The rest of the video continues to ridicule the life of young women today that don’t really go far in life or spend their life fixing their bodies. The point of the video is to show how young women today care more tanning, being skinny and getting plastic surgery. P!nk does a really good job at portraying her thoughts about the stupid things girls so such as become bulimic just to stay skinny, spray tan just to be darker, and degrade themselves to be half naked on a public music video. I clearly see P!nk’s view in all this nonsense going on in our generation. “I'm so glad that I'll never fit in That will never be me Outcasts and girls with ambition That's what I wanna see” P!nk argues. Her claim justifies how much she wants to see smart girls not trying to fit the “perfect picture” but try to use their traits that they are born with for the better. It seems as if girls do these things to impress boys or to feel better about themselves but I think P!nk wrote this song and made this video to show girls how stupid doing those things are. Girls should not humiliate themselves for other people. A lot of the things girls now a days can cause skin caner by tanning, serious eating disorders and dishonor themselves by being put out in public in the wrong situations or even have problems with our health due to plastic surgery. This music video is funny, yet it teaches valuable lesson of how silly girls look by trying to be something they aren’t. The lesson that should be learned by watching this video is that we should love ourselves for who we are not who we think we should be. “Stupid girls” is dedicated to all those insecure girls who think they have to fix themselves of think they are better than others. In reality we are all the same and it should not matter if we are fat, skinny, dark, rich or poor. In the end, we are all woman with different bodies but we were are all born in our unique way for a reason and we shouldn’t have to change it just to please other people.

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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. I hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it!