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                                                                        Blog #3 The cultural artifact that I chose for this blog is Barbie. The first doll that I got was Barbie, a light skinned, tall, blonde doll. I was about seven years old when my parents bought me this doll and it definitely had a major influence on my childhood. I am naturally a dark-skinned girl and definitely shorter than the average girl. As a child, I was a lot darker than I am now so possessing this doll that was made for the entertainment of a child, subconsciously made me have the wrong ideology of what a woman is supposed to look like. Obviously, from the description that I described myself, my physical appearance had nothing in common with Barbie’s. As I got older, it was more and more clear that no girl, even with lighter sk...
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Blog #2

                                                                                           Blog #2 Prompt 1: The cultural artifact that I chose for this blog was the song/music video, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper. Both the lyrics and the video challenge gender representations about women which is why I chose this as an example. It can be interpreted in different ways depending on the viewpoint for the subject which is another reason why I selected this cultural artifact.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A Prompt 2: The song, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was created by Cyndi Lauper and the music video was created by VEVO. It is definitely a very fun and catchy song, so that is what grabs my attention and most like...
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Blog #1

                                                                                      Blog #1 Prompt 1: I chose the song, “If I were a Boy” by Beyonce(2008), for my cultural artifact because there was a portrayal of labeling genders, what it means to be a girl versus what it means to be a boy. The artists’ lyrics convey what her life would be like if she were a man and what her life is like, now, as a woman, generalizing both males and females and their roles in the life of one another.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWpsOqh8q0M   Prompt 2: My chosen cultural artifact labels both men and women. Women, in this song, are portrayed as always pure and true, never being the one in the relationship to lie or be unfaithful. Although technically this is a “go...
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