Your Weekly Dose of Sawyer

The role of humorists can be essential to humanity yet in today's society, humorists tend to utilize their humor in order to hurt more than help. Humorists express hidden messages and agendas within their work in order to point out the flaws of our society. By doing this, humorists are able to use their skills of writing, acting, or talking in order to imply an important message subtly that will hopefully lead to improvement in society. However, in our society today, that is not the case. Humorists today, such as comedians, cartoonists, television hosts, and satirical writers, are not using their humor to their best ability, which would include revealing ways for society to improve. Instead, humorists are using their skills for the sole purpose of entertaining, which ultimately leads to offending their audiences. Our society is propelling and promoting the humorists to continue their use of these offensive jokes because we view them as “funny” and we laugh. However with these “fun...

Similar to the stereotype that Barbie sets, social media also sets a negative stereotype in our society. Just like how we want to believe that "Barbie is just a harmless plaything for little girls" (Prager), we tend to think the same of social media. However, the reality of social media is quite the opposite. Everyday, almost everyone uses some form of social media, whether its Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc.. While it is true that social media has impacted generations before ours, the extent to which social media impacts our generation today is quite dramatic in comparison. Our generation tends to base most of our lifestyle choices off what we see on social media. We strive to look like the models, athletes, or actors/actresses that we see, however this leads to unnecessary stress and even unhealthy choices. For example, when we try to look like the models we see--especially girls--we sometimes end up making choices that can be quite unhealthy. In some cases they lead to...

While Brady analyzed the stereotypical ways that women are viewed in society with their gender roles, I want to display the other side:a husband. I want a husband that'll stay home and take care of the kids. I want him to drop them off at school and pick them up after, so I don't have to worry about it. I want him to take care of them when I'm home so that they aren't bothering me. I want a husband that is working at home but making a vast amount of money that'll guarantee us to be financially stable. I want him to take the kids to the park, pool, etc. some days so that I can have time to myself during the day. I want my husband to be tall, muscular, humorous, and easy on the eyes. He needs to be tall because I want him to be taller than me. He needs to be muscular so that he can protect me and my children in a time of crisis. I definitely want him to be humorous because I don't want someone boring and bland, I want someone who can make me laugh. And of course...

A quote from Tannen’s piece that really stood out to me was “there is no unmarked woman.” (Tannen 556). I completely agree with this statement. While men can be marked too, the extremity to which women are marked in society doesn’t compare. Women are sexualized, categorized, and objectified by what they wear, what they look like, and how they act. Even if you say you don’t categorize people on how they look, act, etc., then you are lying because our society has shaped us to do it unconsciously. Especially to women. Personally, I do believe that there is such a thing as an unmarked man. Society has shaped us to be egocentric and when a man falls into our own personal stereotype-looking category, then we don’t think anything of them. On the other hand, there is no standard-looking category for women. Anything that a woman wears says something about her that makes us judge her right away, consciously and unconsciously. I believe that as time has gone on since this piece was published, we...