Assessment & Scoring: the body

Overview:

• This Write-up is worth seven (7) points.
• One Write-up earned 7/7.
• The average for this assignment is 6.35.
• There are no scores below 4.
• As of R 11/19 there were six students who had not submitted a Write-up.

General comments:

• Higher scoring Write-ups demonstrated an understanding of key concepts through clear and detailed self-reflection, more than general discussion or speculation.
• Better scoring Write-ups also demonstrated depth of analysis, and, in particular, a willingness and ability to look at how what you do is affected by context even where such influence is unthought out.
• Better scoring Write-ups also included the required quote from Anderson.
• Finally, higher scoring Write-ups show greater attention to composition and editing and to guidelines and instructions.

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Comments

[Morgan Taylor]

I know that no one ever comments on the blog post about the scoring, but I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this assignment. Before this assignment I didn't really notice what I do as a woman that really defines me as that. It was really interesting to take a deeper look into what traces tie me to being defined as a girl. In addition to the interesting traces, I wanted to say how shocked I was with how much society shapes us to be either boy or girl. From the colors of blue and pink to Targets toy isle being separated by gender, our society is very black and white with gender issues. I never really noticed how much our society forces us to be either boy or girl and how much society has expectations on how boys and girls should act.

[Cindy Rosales]

I agree with Morgan, I also enjoyed this assignment because I realized how much I express myself into feeling more feminine. Society does shape us into who we can be and who we can't be in order to be accepted. But in all reality, we have the power over self and can dress however we want. Its just the pressure we get from society that changes that.

[Connor Thompson]

I do not think that I would go as far to say that society forces us to either be a boy or a girl. I would say that society makes it really hard for someone to not conform to the binary gender system. Maybe this is the reasoning why so many people do conform? I am sure that there is some correlation. Overall, I have to agree with Cindy, that we do have power over ourselves to do as we want, but there is going to be huge amounts of pressure placed upon someone that doesn't do as expected.

[Alyssa Adams]

Did anyone notice that females seem to be more accepted for not conforming but only in some cases. Like if a girl wants to wear male based clothes that's alright but make sure your hair is long or you're wearing more makeup to offset that. Or if you cut your hair short, try to dress more feminine so as not to be mistaken for a boy. But this is not the case for men; I think the only way it is "socially acceptable" for men to wear skirts or dresses is based on what culture you are in. So western culture for the most part frowns upon this unless you're in Hawaii or Scotland, but other places in the world have no problem with men wearing what we would perceive as feminine.

[Samantha]

Yes that is very interesting Alyssa. I never really noticed or thought about the offsetting that you talk about and even obvious things that I do fall into the same category. If I'm lazy and don't want to wear nicer clothes I throw mascara on or maybe put more effort into my hair just so I don't look like a falling apart slob. Of course where I put on nice clothes I put on more makeup so my face will match the stuff I wear. I wonder if I grew up in a different culture I would feel the same need to balance it out or would I just not care because it's not important to me?