I'm Asian and I'm Proud

After all this, my mind has broadened to the fact that everyone is stereotyped, not by race/gender, but by appearance.  At first glance, we create a first impression of someone off a stereotype that is close to their appearance.  You know it’s true.  Don’t try to act all like, “I don’t judge people by their race/appearance or make any assumptions until I find out what kind of person they are”.  That’s a load of bull s***.  I’ll admit that I make certain assumptions based off stereotypes of an appearance, but I keep that stuff in my head.  I know what to say and what not to say out loud.  I do feel bad for thinking such ways, but I can’t help it.  These kinds of things have surrounded me my entire life.  

Parents should be aware of their actions because they never know what actions/habits their children might pick up.

Sullivan is basically saying once he was comfortable with who he really is, he didn’t feel like he had to fake actions/emotions in front of others.  I think it takes a lot of courage/confidence to really put yourself out there, whether it’s your appearance, likes, dislikes, or ideas.  

Saying someone is marked is another way of saying they have/are being judged by others.  Following that statement, I would agree that all women are marked [judged] mostly for what they wear/appearance.  People go around saying ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, but let’s be honest.  Everyone judges everyone for their appearance.  For example, people dress really nice for interviews because that’s the employer’s very first impression of that person.  Women expect not to be judged, but they’re the ones doing most of the judging.  From that, men base their judgement off that of women.  I’m not saying that men are unmarked, but the reason men are able to be ‘less’ marked is that they don’t judge each other since they don’t care as much as women do about appearances.  In that meaning, we are not the ones that mark ourselves, but others around us who do so.  So even if it’s not said out loud, people are silently marking others.  

How is it that men became more powerful than women?  Is it because they’re physically stronger?  Honestly, that’s the only thing.  If women were given the same opportunities as men in the past, things would be a lot different today.  If given the opportunity, they could handle the same jobs as men today.  However, both men and women have unconsciously drawn a line that limits what women can and can’t do.  Men have drawn the line and said that women should “stay in the kitchen”, only doing domestic work.  Women limit themselves by calling each other cute and fragile, and acting the part as well.  Although they want to be treated equal to men, they can’t because they themselves reject some of the things that men deal with (ex. physical labor).  A woman can’t be more like a man because she herself acts the part that society has set as the standard woman.

Even just by writing this, for anyone to see, I’m putting myself out there.  In turn, my masks are breaking, one by one. 

I didn’t really change anything to my prototype.  Since my reviewers were asking lots of questions, I explained things to them in more detail to clarify how I was going to proceed with making my short movie.  They also helped me look at questions I hadn’t thought about before, such as the length of the movie, and where I was going to film it.  I’ll try to make it under 10 minutes, because I know people have short attention spans.  (That’s why a lot of videos on YouTube are like 2-4 minutes long).  The location will also change a lot since each scene will probably be about 20-45 seconds (they’re little snip-bits).  One of my reviewers also made me think about my actors (who they’re going to be/play).  This made me realize that for my movie, the clothing is important in making it clear who is who, since there will be minimal talking from the actors themselves, and more of me doing a voice over of how the children are being affected during and after childhood, carrying on to their adult life.

Since I’m thinking of doing a short movie/mockumentary, my prototype is more of a story board (but from this, it looks like a comic strip lol).  After drawing it out and getting feedback from some people, they didn’t really give me any negative feedback, but asked lots of helpful questions about my process.  Although, I’m not really sure how to go about this, since I’ve never made a video like this before...more like I’ve never made a video before.  I’m also not sure if I should make light of this topic since I’m focusing on the negative aspects of a parent’s actions.  I feel like my audience is my class mates, but I would like to appeal more to parents, and they probably wouldn’t like such an issue to be viewed upon as a joke.  I think that’s the main thing I’m struggling with.  I’ll try to change it to be a bit more serious, then see if my first or second prototype is better received.

My claim was how parents’ actions affect kids’ development.  I got a lot of ideas from my group, but a lot of them were the same.  I also felt that they didn’t really understand my claim and what I want to express to my audience.  Before we did this, I was thinking of doing a short movie, and that was one of the ideas that came up.  Then someone in my group gave the idea of a mockumentary, and I thought that would be a good idea.  I also like the idea of a comic strip or a children’s book.  Right now, I’m leaning more toward the short movie idea.