Rampage Jackson Interview

When first watching this interview I thought it was hilarious. I thought Rampage gave one of the funniest post game interviews I have ever seen in my life. I thought it was playful, funny, and really out there. I also thought very highly of the person giving the interview who I later found out to be Karyn Bryant. She seemed to think it was funny as well and I thought that she was very cool to understand the joke and not take it offensively.

After scrolling down a bit I noticed someone posting a comment about a Maggie Hendricks who at the time I thought to be Karyn Bryant. The comment talked about how she felt it was sexual harassment so I naturally checked it out. It turned out Maggie Hendricks was not affiliated with the situation and was simply a writer for Yahoo Sports.

I have mixed emotions on this topic. For one, I have worked with many female reporters as per interning with Comcast Sportsnet and having a show on Radio DePaul. I understand how it is a disadvantage to be a female trying to break into the sports field and know how tough it must be to often not be taken seriously. I think that it is especially brave of a woman like Karyn Bryant to work in an industry like MMA which is male dominated.

But I also have played sports and have been in a locker room. I can tell you from first hand experience that a male locker room is not the place for a woman to be in. People are naked or close to it, pulling childish pranks, and there is a high testosterone level. I want to leave it off with this question because it is what I will discuss further in my blog paper: Why is it that we do not see men in women's locker rooms but women in men's?

Bimbo's initiation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFrBG4xyaF8

Here in Bimbo's initiation, we see Bimbo being scared and torments but a gang of people asking him "Wanna be a member?" Bimbo responds with a no, which reveals individuality and leadership, however, his unwillingness to conform leads to more physical and psychological torture. Bimbo continues to tell the gang no, even though they are scaring him and trapping him in numerous way. It isn't until Bimbo encounters Betty Boop, that he replies yes when she asks him "Wanna be a member?" The dance the Betty Boop does is an example of how the female is viewed by society, as an object. Betty Boop dances and shakes her booty in Bimbo's face, smacking it several times, and his mood changes for being scared to being fascinated with the dance she's doing. The display of Betty Boop's sexuality, as well as Bimbo due to his gaze toward Betty, connotes Murvey's idea of to be looked at ness. This is also telling about our culture today, as well as during the 30's when it was made. Men are fascinated with women, more specifically because of their sexuality. The fascination can even be strong enough to make a man change his mind about something, as seen through Bimbo. The video reveals that there is something that we all desire that is strong enough to make us conform. Sometimes what you desire is stronger than what you fear, and we see this through Bimbo as well. Furthermore, Betty Boop represents a time when "Flappers" were very popular, and the sexual content in this short, represents part of the ideology of the Flappers, who were know to stir away from the status quo by drinking, smoking, and treating sex as casual (like men do). Her display of her sexuality further works to emphasize the image of the woman as an object. ~JF

Kim Kardashian Sketcher's Commercial

Kim Kardashian is famous for her gorgeous body. She has curves, she has a tight body and she is beautiful. This is all shown in this commercial. From her tight shorts, to her tight sports bra to her “glistening” body, she is being completely eroticized in this short commercial. Except, this commercial is about Sketcher’s workout shoes. The object being advertised is now sexualized through the images. Workout shoes are the opposite of sexy, but this commercial tells us otherwise. When I think of sketcher’s, I think of sparkly shoes I used to wear growing up as a child. Never once did I think of adults when I though of Sketcher’s brand. The company is obviously trying to change their image to focus on targeting an older, cooler audience. To do this, they need to use the visual stimulation of the female body. Her body is the visual display for the erotic gaze by male watchers, and women are the watchers as well as they want to look liker her. The idea of visual pleasures work. This commercial was shown during the 2011 Super Bowl. This game is anything but sexy, as the reading states the viewers need breaks from the film/show/game at hand. Showing this sexy commercial, viewer’s have a “sexual get-away” in their mind’s with the sexy commercial.