Ahhhh Youtube.com

August 14, 2007

So I was looking back at all my posts that I have made over the last month and a half and I think just about EVERY entry has at least one link to Youtube.com. One of them I just put the link up and said it speaks for itself. I could probably add more to that entry - it's not really an entry aside from the fact that I watched the video. This little blog right now is just about the fact that the Internet is soo amazing for getting your opinions out there. You can discuss ANY of your feelings about gender, race, oppression, sexuality..., the list could go on.

Youtube is an amazing website because people actually post video's of their opinions or post their music videos, or re-makes of music videos. It is such a great way to look at other peoples/cultures perspectives into music and gender. Many of the videos and articles I have on this Women's and Gender Studies blog website would not be on here without Youtube. You can learn so much about how people view the society their in by listening to their video blogs or even by watching their actions by what they choose to copy and mimic. I believe that people's actions speak better than words most of the time.

A lot of the video's I have watched on Youtube (or other websites similar to Youtube) have really made me think about a lot of things. I'd like to think I know a lot, but when you look at everything in the 'big picture' you realize there is SO much going on. I never realized there were sooo many issues with Music and the way males and females were represented in it. This course has really made me think about the media I take in and how it influences me. Instead of just listening to a song, I actually focus on what it's trying to tell me. As ridiculous as this is as well, I also listen to what kind of a beat it has and think about masculine and feminine traits like was discussed in one of the first articles we read... "Sex, Gender and Music" by Jill Halstead. It was a really tough article to get through, a lot of it went over my head, but as I am learning more about gender and stereotypes about male/female and masculinities and femininities her article is beginning to make more and more sense. The more I read over some parts the more my eyes are opened to several ideas and concepts.