j7- glee

I like that this unit is on gender identity. I think it’s a really interesting topic and to view it from different perspectives is quite fascinating. I have friends that range from the extremely gay to major bigots. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. The clip I’m analyzing is actually the episode of glee. In this particular episode there is a new guy in glee club and at first everyone assumes he’s gay. I guess there were a couple of things that led all the other members to believe in that. He started out with a dr. suess quote which had the girls thinking he doesn’t have game, which I suppose in turn means he doesn’t hit on much girls. Then the gay guy in the club noticed his hair colour. He said he has what’s called, “gaydar” and can tell when a guy dyes his hair. I think it’s implying that a straight guy can’t have good hair. Nor can he know show tunes; when the gay guy listed a bunch of it to the new guy, he hadn’t a clue, and the gay guy said, “Wow, maybe you ARE straight!” Society has certain rules that people need to follow, unless they want to be categorized in certain sex groups. If two guys sing a duet together, then they are up for hell. If a guy is fashionable, he is gay. If he is in glee club, he is gay. I like that the gay guy in this episode says that when you’re different, you’re alone. Yet, he’s proud to be different if that means showing who he really is. He embraced both the male and female roles through song. I thought that was pretty cool the way he sang the male’s part with the right side of his body and the girl’s part with the left. It was a really creative way to combine the two. There’s a lot of ridicule that comes with being unlike the rest. The main guy in the show (football player, popular, jock) said that a guy singing with another guy in a duet means there’s a “bullet” on their backs. People tend to pick on people that are different than them. Maybe it’s because they don’t understand, or just don’t care for dissimilarity. The same jock guy said something about it being “their world” and in “their world” being gay is a death sentence. It’s kind of sad to think about everything that a gay person goes through and the experiences that they won’t ever get to have. The gay guy confesses to his dad about how he thinks it’s unfair that he’s the only openly gay and doesn’t ever get the opportunity to walk hand in hand down the hallway of school or slow dance at his prom. Everybody should have equal rights. Gay people are just the same as straight people.

j5- sloan's text

I think comparatively, sloan's hypertext was much more effective. The text from the book was understandable, but it didn't hold my interest for long. As for the hypertext, there were pictures and other links that allowed for a much better grasp on the subject. The links weren't distracting at all. It allowed me to go back after a paragraph or two to check out the terms/ people. It actually provided more information than the book. Then again, I didn't click on every link. I think that might've been distracting. I only clicked on the links that I wanted to know more about. However, I feel as if I hadn't read the book, I wouldn't understood it as much. The book gives more detail of the subject, but it was really dry. Although both the book and the hypertext had its pros and cons, I'm a visual learner and having the pictures there allowed me to see exactly what the text was about.