There is one thing that makes me really
angry. I get up in arms when girls and women talk in a violent way to each
other’s, using sexist vocabulary. I find disgusting when a man use sexist
vocabulary with girls, and I refuse it, but I find unacceptable when a girls
does it. I mean, we live in a sexist world where our languages are built
through sexism and genre violence. It is also violent because there is a binary
conception in our social buildings that categorize male as good and
female as bad. I think that girls have to refuse the use of sexist language,
because is violent, and is charged with a lot of misconceptions that put us in an
oppressed site. But, also, I know that is hard to get out of our language, to
look deep inside, and see those types of things (the violent sense of using
some words like "maraca", for example). I think that, to see
the violence through language, we have to name, to talk and criticize those sexist
things, and become them unnatural. Maybe, if we talk about it (about violence
in language), girls would realize that they are reproducing violence when they
use some words charged with sexism.
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Saturday, July 2, 2016
On thursday we had to do an activity that was about searching places to visit in London, in a context of an imaginary study trip. We had to search places on internet, seek the prices, look for the nearest tube station to get there, and the zone in which the place is located.
It was really interesting, but like it would be with more time to do it, because under pressure it is hard to me to enjoy anything :(. Anyway, I learned a lot, because I've never done this excercise before. First, I realized that England is very expensive, and to become it real (the trip), I should have to save a lot of money. Then, it seems that if I want to travel there, besides money, I need a lot of time. I think I will have to keep this in mind, because I'd love to travel to England in a close future.
If one day I would go to London, I'd like to visit almost all the places that we've looked for, because there were relevant in England History. I would like to visit other places, too. I'd love to visit the Sherlock Holmes Museum, and go to (I hope) all the jazz clubes to listening some jazz jam sessions, like Ronnie Scott's or the Vortex bar club. I'd love to go to some punk concerts in London, and exhibitions and events of punk there. And, finally, I would like to visit the best libraries in london, and arts exhibitions.
Because of my interests I don't know if I would like to go with classmates, but I'd like to go with my friends and family.
It was really interesting, but like it would be with more time to do it, because under pressure it is hard to me to enjoy anything :(. Anyway, I learned a lot, because I've never done this excercise before. First, I realized that England is very expensive, and to become it real (the trip), I should have to save a lot of money. Then, it seems that if I want to travel there, besides money, I need a lot of time. I think I will have to keep this in mind, because I'd love to travel to England in a close future.
If one day I would go to London, I'd like to visit almost all the places that we've looked for, because there were relevant in England History. I would like to visit other places, too. I'd love to visit the Sherlock Holmes Museum, and go to (I hope) all the jazz clubes to listening some jazz jam sessions, like Ronnie Scott's or the Vortex bar club. I'd love to go to some punk concerts in London, and exhibitions and events of punk there. And, finally, I would like to visit the best libraries in london, and arts exhibitions.
Because of my interests I don't know if I would like to go with classmates, but I'd like to go with my friends and family.
Yesterday, by
midnight, I saw for fourth or fifth time “Django Unchained” in my house, with
some friends. This is a movie by Quentin
Tarantino in which appears almost the same actors that participate in his
movies and other great actors and actress: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leo
DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, and so on. This movie is an
adaptation or a tribute to the old movie named “Django”, a western movie, but
in the tipicall style of Tarantino.
It is about “Django”,
a black slave that gets liberated by “dr. Schultz” a man that is a bounty hounter. The condition
to Django to get liberated by the bounty hounter, is to help Schultz to find
some fugitive of the justice that only Django could identify, because he know
them. They start becoming partners, and then Django tells his story about him
and his wife, Broomhilda Von Schaft, and
how they wanted to scape together, and then got catched and separated, and then
Schultz offers to Django to help him to find his wife. They find Broomhilda’s
owner in Candyland, a place where white and rich people forced to the slaves to
fight till death, and some other horrible things… Both characters know that to
rescue Broomhilda won’t be easy, so they get a great plan… I don’t want to tell you the end, so you can
see the movie if you haven’t yet.
I really like this
movie, not only because it is entertaining, but because it tells a good story
in a not particular way. I dislike the scenes with a lot of blood, obviously,
but the rest of the movie is really good. Almost because it shows a reality
that we didn’t live now (not in that terms) but taht we shouldn’t forget. And
because I like the female character, Broomhilda.
Hi everyone, I want to tell you about one of my favourites
bands: The Doors.
That band is one of those music that you
never get tired of listening. I have many favourite bands, is true, but
listening to Doors have always make me happy.
They played psychedelic rock and blues rock. I think I love them
so much because I have listening this kind of music since when I was a child (my first favourite Singer
is Elvis Presley, since I listened to him
when I was five years old), but also because in their music they played
different genres that I love, like rock & roll, Jazz, Blues, acid rock, and
psychedelic. Also because I think that Ray Manzarek is one of the best keyboard
players in the world, and Jim Morrison will be the best frontman on the earth.
I will post for you two songs that you may like, I hope you’ll enjoy them:
Not To Touch The Earth
Queen of the Highway
Monday, June 20, 2016
Something I'd like to learn
Since I was very little, I was an intelectually restless girl. Not because I had divine qualities. It was only because I had physical limitations. I have always had problems with interacting with people and my enviroment in general, so I was almost obligated to develop some other quality. As a very shy child, i had to refuge on books. Then, the little I talked with people, the most I read. Certainly, literature came first. My mum had always encourage our reading, to me and my brohers and sister, but I am the best reader in my house (obviously, it is because I have no more qualities, as I said). So, from short stories to large novels, I eated every book that passed through my hands.As a result, I started to learn a lot of things and, with that, I learn the love of learning and knowledge in general. I like to learn new things, but I’m afraid that everything that I learn is related with some topics in particular. I just learn by reading, so I am completely incompetent in terms of sports, music abilities and many other things.
I really would like to learn to play some instrument, but I think that I don’t have the talent in music. I always say that my only talent is to apreciate arts, but I am not an artist. I do not write quite enough to be a good writter, and I don’t draw pretty much good to be a drawer. I don’t sing really well to be a singer. I practiced dance until I was eleven years old, but I got tired of that. And I’m really bad at sports. The sad part is that all of these things are interesting to me, but my corporality doesn’t let me do them well.
Maybe the problem is that I don´t have courage, so I may start by learning how to lose the fear that keeps me quiet.
Santiago
I have to admit that is delightful to me to speak about
cities. Precisely because I like to
think, live and go through human spaces, analyzing the structures, the meaning
of the constitution, in a material and discourse sense in which are builded. I
really enjoy to see how spaces are a place in which we find lots of meanings
and dispositions. Particulary, cities are a center of human activities and,
because of that, is full of material and metaphysic senses.
In that way, Santiago is a very important space to me. I
like to walk for hours without a definite course. I consider the excercise of
walking through the city as very
relevant, because it shows on some events some aspects of our society. For example,
is not coincidence that, as a girl, I am not able to walk alone along the city
without experiencing Street harassment,
or the fact that if you walk through a bad neighborhood, or “dangerous
streets”, you will be surely a victim of assault. Then, in that sense, Santiago
has very good things that I love, like those spaces that recall history events
and are patrimony (Barrio Yungay, for example), and those places that are full
of culture and arts. I dislike those spaces that are determinated by material
conditions and socioeconomic level, not by itself, but because there where
designed places that reproduce social injustices, becoming guettos and focus of
violence. Those places are usually not pleasant to community.
To make Santiago a better place, I think it has
to be more democratic. In first place, there must not be able to have the level
of segregation that characterize our city. And then, I think we have to
socialize every space, and eliminate neoliberalism that stalks our city. But
I’m convinced that first we have to change radically the social structure and
values that are deeply in the heart of Santiago. I hope I will be alive to see
something change.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Hi everyone
I had some trouble during this weeks,
so I had not the time to do the activities. I think that is a similar case of
most of the people that are participating on the strike, so probably you are in
the same situation now. I’m going to post the activities now, so you can post
me if you want to.
What we do:
I choosed to study sociology because it brings me usefull tools to analyze society.
Also, because I really enjoy most of the contents of the career, and because I
feel that the structure of the discipline is similar to my way of thinking. It gives me a lot of
perspectives that are related with other personal interests as economy, philosophy,
psychology, politics, history and so on. I can shift from one perspective to
another easily and, I feel, it connects differents knowledges, so I may explain
or understand societal phenomenons in a deeper and critical way.
Professionals in my area have a lot
of skills to contribute to society. Having a degree in sociology allows you to
work in different spaces. In our country, sociologists focus on political
publics or academy, and they work on public and private organizations, to
analyze social phenomenons, thinking in solutions to society issues, creating
projects, supporting other disciplines, et cetera. I think that, in the future,
sociologists will have to develop some mechanisms to approach to a society that
is becoming more technologycal, so most of the phenomenons will have place in
some no-places on the internet, and some stuff like that.
At the moment, my favourite subjects those thar
are related with history, psychology and philosophy. I like most of the
subject, with the exception of statistics (in wich I am really really bad).
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