Daily Writes

Chelsea Fagan from The Financial Diet portrayed in each of her “Unfair costs of being a Man/Woman” informative videos some of the many disadvantages that come with each gender through a small list of six examples shedding light on the negative impact these stereotypes or assumptions cause to not only the people affected by them but to our society as a whole. Chelsea takes the time to detail the strong factors by which form the premise around these inefficiencies. After viewing each of these videos I am able to analyze the connections between them, In both Chelseas videos I can witness where they agree on how each gender has a fair amount of drawbacks negatively affecting everyone as a whole, but I can also view where the sources challenge one another for conflicting opinions on the matter at hand. Overall I believe Chelsea and The Financial Diets argument contains a sensible amount of evidence to support their longstanding claims.

What it means to be a Man: To be a man you are supposed to be the strongest, being a man means everything is a competition you must always be the alpha, being a man also means you should be the primary income source of your household as well, being a man means you should never be scared, being a man means being more rational and not showing emotion, being a man means you should be talking to a many different woman, being a man means you should be able to do whatever it is you need to do yourself, being a man means not asking for help, being a man means you are the boss. un-apolagetic

What it means to be a woman: to be a woman you must be feminine, being a woman means being physically and emotionally weak, overly sensitive overly emotional, need protecting, caring nurturing, enforcing ladylike manners and tendancies, reserved, polite, overly-apolagetic, purity, sinless, appearance

After taking a look and reviewing my goals for this semester I can analyze and see where I have made great progress as well as where I could use great improvement. For my first goal to maintain my grade point average, this semester has proved more trying and difficult than last semester which has unmotivated me to work which also plays into another one of my goals I desperately need to fix which is my procrastination. Following that my next goal to maintain my new truck I have excelled at which brings me joy to see it clean with no scratches. and finally my last and final goal that I set out for myself was to have as much fun and go out as much as possible this semester but I have been finding that increasingly difficult as well with the cities over the top guidelines and restrictions leading to a less than favorable time when going out.

After participating in this class today I learned a lot that I could use in my project to improve it in many ways. After reading the sample drafts from other classes I was able to see that an area of improvement on my project would be enhancing how this specific experience changed myself as a whole. As well as another point in which I can see how I changed my actions following the event. further on after discussing the peer reviews I can see better where I can input better details to show where this specific experience took place and how exactly it changed me.

My semester intentions for this year; academically I would like to continue my reasonably good grade point average from last semester finishing this semester with an improvement, as well as decreasing my procrastination efforts. another intention I have for the semester on a personal note is to maintain my new truck i received over break and finally my last intention socially is to have as much fun as possible before the semester ends

These are 5 minute or less quick writes that we’ll complete in class most days. This will also include any in-class writing about the readings that we do. If you don’t bring your tablet/laptop to class every day or if you prefer writing on paper during class, you’ll need to type up and post these after class.