Week 6 Blog Reviews

Morgan Paulson-In your post from the 23rd I was impressed with your connection to the reading and your own personal experience. I think it was a really good way in showing the difference in changes in time, as your grandfathers brother had to wait to until recently to come out, I’m assuming he knew about his sexuality when he was young and was afraid of how people would react, now that people are more accepting it was easier for him to come out. I also really like your explanation of how capitalism changed the way people lived their lives. I liked the terms “survival” and “emotional “fulfillment” in describing what life was about and what it is now. One thing I would suggest with this post is working your quotes into your sentences. I find it kind of boring if you say something and then say the author said this and here is the authors quote to prove it. Most likely when people do this the quote will say basically the same thing as what the writer just said, and I don’t believe it’s necessary.

Lauren Spencer- In you post from the 21^st, I liked your description of the characters. From your description I could really understand why used this movie as an example of wild real men and real wild women. I think especially the character played by Cate Blanchett was a good choice. In a way your description of her reminded me of the Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon character descriptions from the reading. The one complaint I have about your blog is I think you focused on the plot of the movie a little too much, your explanation of how the characters were wild real men and real wild women seemed to take a backseat to the plot. In your post from the 23^rd, I thought you had a good point when you mentioned how American values are changing, and this is leading to a change in what is accepted. I was a little confused as you pointed out that acceptance of homosexuality has gone along with technological changes. I wasn’t sure if you meant if technology has brought America to be more liberal. If it has, how has it done that? Otherwise I thought your essay was well written. I thought this especially with one of the parts where you talked about technology, it was the part where you used technology to show how much something can change. I thought this was a good example of something that changed over time similar to how views on homosexuality changed over time.