Blog 7

The other weekend I had to complete my drill time for the US Coast Guard Reserves in St Louis, MO. While I was there our command had planned out a couple of training sessions for us on certain topics with one of them being on human relations issues. During this particular training we were told to gather into groups of 5 people and then we were given a list of 12 different types of people. From this list we had to choose only 7 people that we would put into a "capsule" to send to another planet to start up the population again (the earth was about to be somehow destroyed). The 12 different types of people that were listed were a 70 year old priest, a Jewish writer, a female actress, an accountant, the accountant's wife who was pregnant and use to take drugs, a stripper who smoked marajuana, a Chinese feminist student, a pharmacist, a medical student, a professional basketball player, an armed policeman, and a wheat farmer. When all of the groups were done deciding who they would take in the capsule we were instructed to say out loud who we chose to not take. It was interesting to see that in almost every group they decided to leave behind the Chinese feminist student. One of the reason why I fought to keep her for our group was because we knew for sure that she was a female and she could help repopulate the new planet. But, to my surprise most groups wanted to leave her behind because it would make the trip "easier". With hearing that reply I saw how little people know what a true feminist is. They just assume that it is a loud speaking, strong opinionated, unruly woman who won't take 'no' as an answer (from a man). It almost seemed to me like all of the groups were scared to 'deal' with a feminist and so they would rather leave her behind than deal with her at all.

Blog 6

The other day I had taken my father-in-law to the women's volleyball game (for extra credit in one of class). We had a great game to watch and the school spirit was great to see. The one thing that I wasn't to comfortable with was the uniforms that the women volleyball players were wearing. I understand that the "huggies" (what they use for shorts) are the most effective type of bottoms because they don't get caught on anything and they are light weight. But, have you seen them? The huggies are basically like black underwear and they leave nothing for the imagination. I have noticed the different uniform changes throughout the years not only for the volleyball players, but also for other male sports as well. It seems like the men sport's uniforms are getting baggier and baggier (basketball and baseball) all the while women's uniforms are getting tighter and tighter. I am not sure if wearing a tighter uniform is the women's request, but is sure gives a show for the male audience. I can't say too much about tight uniforms because I was a swimmer that would have to wear a swim suit in order to compete. But, I was in the water during my event and the tighter the suit the less the drag from the water. All I know is that I would personally feel uncomfortable at first in wearing what the women's volleyball team had to wear in front of a large crowd. I guess if I would just focus on the game and concentrated on winning the game rather than what people thought it wouldn't even phase me on what I was wearing.