Having A Gay Ole Time!

        Most people when they watch the WWE they are all about seeing someone getting knocked out and put in their place. They have fun cheering on the wrestlers and even seeing the women being put in their place. It’s all about masculinity and who is the manliest. Even though it’s all staged they are still performing these crazy stunts to show how manly they really are. These professionals think they are far from the word feminine. They want nothing to do with anything that will cause them to look “gay”. Well have you really ever sat there and thought about how these guys are wrestling each other to the ground wearing tight shorts and are covered in oil.  

         Hmm… something here just screams gay to me. You may be proving that you are tougher than your opponent, but don’t bash each other about how they are gay, when clearly your wrestling another guy to the ground. I personally don’t think it’s very manly at all.  All I have to say is put some clothes on!

Monkey See, Monkey Do!

         When you are watching the news at night and it flashes on your screen, “child seriously hurt from doing dangerous stunts”, do you ever think to yourself, were did they get this crazy idea to do this? I always wonder what this person was trying to achieve out of doing this and what caused him to even attempt to do it. Then I think oh Monkey see, Monkey do. These kids are seeing things on TV that they think looks cool so they go home and try and react what was done. These kids need to realize that everything they see on TV is not real.

          In our class this week, we watched a film on the WWE. What I got out of a part of it was that many younger kids see what is happening on the show and they try to react it at home. They had a few clips playing of the so called “backyard wrestling”, where people had made homemade videos of them wrestling, just as if they were in the WWE. One thing that you notice in their videos is after performing a stunt you don’t just see them pop up and act is if nothing has happened, but if you were to watch WWE you can see that the wrestlers just pop right back up. How can these people not realize that its fiction and that it’s all acting? When they first thought of the idea to recreate the stunt at home, did they not stop and think, oh this could turn out badly? When you think about it though, do you ever see on TV something go wrong? No, you only see the success stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVhcBaGApI&feature=relmfu

        There have been a few fatal incidents where children have been seriously injured or even killed by performing stunts. A few years ago a 9 year old boy died from attempting a WWE wrestling maneuver he saw on a WWE video game he was playing. He wanted to be like Jeff Hardy and performed a Swanton Bomb off the top of his apartment complex. They found the boy lying on the ground with just rope and a bag that he used as a parachute. Many people commented saying if only they were there to stop him before jumping off to tell him what would happen. Unfortunately it ended fatally.  If you’re going to let your child watch the WWE you need to educate them on how it is all fiction and it should not be performed in real life.  For parents who want a little more incite on the WWE here is a Link: http://corporate.wwe.com/parents/guidance.jsp

Can't Escape From The Music!

Have you ever been in your car and a song came on the radio that you didn’t like, so you changed the channel? When you changed the channel did a song you like that played on the other channel come on? You always think, “oh what a coincidence”, or “wow this must be a popular song, every channel is playing it”. In all actuality the song may be very popular, but the reason it plays on most stations would be because many stations are owned by the same company. One company that dominates the radio world would have to be Clear Channel.  They serve around 150 cities through 850 owned radio stations. Their stations can be heard on almost anything. Some examples would be; AM/FM stations, HD digital radio channels, Sirius/XM satellite.  The company also just created a new internet radio called iheartradio. Iheartradio allows you to create your own playlist by whom your favorite artist are, what kind of genera of music you like to listen to, or just the top hits on the radio at the time. You can stream it while you’re surfing the web or even on your phone. I personally love this app on my phone. I like to change up the type of music I’m listening to while I’m in the car. So I hook up my phone and type in what artist I’m obsessing over and it creates a playlist for me.  So next time when you’re in the car and your changing channels and hearing the same song on almost every channel, just think they are all basically the same channel with a different name and DJ. 

http://www.iheart.com/