Football High

The video Football High talks a lot about how so many players are getting head injuries due to the aggressiveness of players.  In today's culture, it is common to see players bulk up; they work out and practice hard.  You usually see players that weigh 200 pounds or more.  The video also talks about how schools still have their teams practice in weather over 100 degrees because there is no regulations saying that they cannot do this.  Practicing in weather over 100 degrees can cause  a lot of problems with the players, like heat stroke.  The main point I think that the video tries to get across is that as a football player, it is likely that you will have brain trauma from how hard teams play.  These head injuries can be long term and can even cause death in some people. 

These issues are presented with the video using a couple of school examples.  One example is Shiloh High School in Arkansas.  One of Shiloh's football players got heat stroke during practice and was hospitalized and then was released after a certain amount of time.  Also, Garrett Harper who is from Shiloh, has had multiple concussions and still played.  After you get one concussion, the second one is suppose to be worse; even a football players helmet cannot protect the brain from getting damage.  A second example given about heat stroke is Tyler Davenport who is from Lamar High School; he had heat stroke during practice and ended up dying from the damage done to his organs. 

There are over 60,000 head trauma injuries every year due to football and this can cause STE.  With how much football players bulk up it equals more force when hitting an opponent.  The whole point of the game is to see who can get who to leave the field first.  There are also more children playing football than any other sport; and that is the more higher rating for head trauma waiting to happen.

I think that football is a very aggressive sport because my dad played football his whole life and has had over 15 surgeries and they are all football related injuries.  My brother has also had multiple concussions and a major sprain to his foot from playing football and not baseball or basketball.  I always here about football injuries over any other sport injury.  There has to be some way to make football a more safer sport to play so that the percentage of head injuries can be lowered. 

Fake Love

Klosterman talks a lot about fake love in his reading This is Emo.  Fake love is when a person sees a relationship or couple on the media and all of a sudden have these expectations that that is how they want their own relationship to be like.  In reality there is no "perfect relationship" like everyone sees on the media.  People have very high expectations for how they want their own relationship that they cannot ever be satisfied because when they have a relationship it is not what they wanted or what it is like on the media that they have seen.  This causes a lot of problems for couples because if you want your own relationship to be like what you see on television, well you may be disappointed because television and reality are totally different.

An example of fake love is the movie the Last Song.  In this movie a girl and guy meet and the girl pretty much plays hard to get.  The guy keeps trying to impress the girl and then they finally hang out and have a good time.  Something happens between them and the girl wants nothing to do with the guy; the guy keeps chasing after the girl until he gets her back.  In reality I feel like not many guys would try as hard as the guy did in the movie just to get a girl (I could be wrong).  It is most girls dreams to have a guy chase after them when something bad happens between them and I think that this is a good little example of fake love.

 



Selling Sex Within Ads

This ad is a shoe ad for American Apparel.  The uses a women in the first image on her knees as a guy puts his foot to her butt as she is lifting up her dress.  The second image is of both a man and women; the women is standing in front of the man and he is lifting up her dress.  I think that Jean Kilbourne would object to a couple of things in these images.  One of the things that I believe she would object to is how there is no faces in any of the two images and that it is mainly the lower half of the women and mans body.  Another thing that I think she would object to is how the women is lifting her dress up so that the man's foot can go underneath the dress.   Same with the second image on how the women is letting the man do what he wants by lifting up her dress as he has a hand on her thigh and she is standing there like nothing is happening.

The Importance of Happiness

The importance that sexiness has in our culture is that people should feel sexy no matter how they look.  Media is a big example about how people feel because on commercials they tend to use these women that are pencil thin and gorgeous but do not realized that that is not how everyone looks.  Dove is a good example for a commercial that has a bigger picture than others because they do not use only pencil thin women; they use all sorts of women and even women of different ethnicities.  In today’s society I think that it is very hard for women to feel sexy because of all the entertainment we have and what people see on the television.

It is very important that people feel sexy with how they look because not everyone can look the same.  People need that reassurance that they are sexy; in today’s society, I also think that it is common for young teenagers to harm themselves because they cannot look like the person on television or someone they know.  This to me is a huge issue and that’s why it is very important for people in our culture to know that they are sexy no matter what their appearance may be.