poniedziałek, 18 grudnia 2017
Only a wee of snow...
In her article Heather Mallick represents an ironic yet friendly attitude to British people. On the one hand, she teases with them and makes fun of their fear of snow. She deconstructed, for example, a famous Churchill's speech and replaced the words "fight" with "shovel". On the other hand, she praised them for their abilities of joking about their own flaws and weaknesses. She even called them unique because of that and to prove it she for example mentioned the joke made by Boris Johnson who said: "Don't all drive in at once!"
How do we archive things..?
"Libraries"
I listened to a podcast about the "libraries" that people create for themselves. "Libraries" meaning our private archives, collections we create throughout our whole lives.
I especially liked the piece about love letters. The host talked about how they are much more than "just" messages sent to the loved ones, because they also convey a lot of important information about the person that had written them. She also explained why she thought that love letters would never be outdated. She said that phone calls and text messages will never convey as many emotions as love letters because you need to put a lot of thought, time and effort to write them. In comparison to phone calls for example, you can take your time to rethink things you want to say so a love letter is much more meaningfull and thought through.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hrkwl
I listened to a podcast about the "libraries" that people create for themselves. "Libraries" meaning our private archives, collections we create throughout our whole lives.
I especially liked the piece about love letters. The host talked about how they are much more than "just" messages sent to the loved ones, because they also convey a lot of important information about the person that had written them. She also explained why she thought that love letters would never be outdated. She said that phone calls and text messages will never convey as many emotions as love letters because you need to put a lot of thought, time and effort to write them. In comparison to phone calls for example, you can take your time to rethink things you want to say so a love letter is much more meaningfull and thought through.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hrkwl
niedziela, 10 grudnia 2017
Anorexia should be treated properly
Anorexia - just like any other mental illness should be treated seriously
In 2012 we could all realise how true was that, when a 19-year-old girl died from this disease. She was failed by the hospitals, doctors and all the specialist units. Only now, 5 years later, her parents have received proper apologies and aswers.
The continous problem with eating disorders is that they keep being misunderstood and underestimated by the society. It seems as if these illnesses are only about being as skinny as "that girl", or being skinny enough to fit in a pretty evening dress, when it's at the same time as serious disease as schrizophrenia for example. As a result those people not only suffer from a serious mental illness but also from a disorder that's highly disrespected and stigmatised.
I couldn't agree more with the author of this article because I very often observe how people suffering from eating disorders are misunderstood by others. Sometimes even their closest family members don't realise that this is not just a silly teenage struggle but a deadly illness that needs to be treated as quickly and professionally as possible.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/10/averil-hart-death-anorexia-mental-illness-treat-it-like-one
In 2012 we could all realise how true was that, when a 19-year-old girl died from this disease. She was failed by the hospitals, doctors and all the specialist units. Only now, 5 years later, her parents have received proper apologies and aswers.
The continous problem with eating disorders is that they keep being misunderstood and underestimated by the society. It seems as if these illnesses are only about being as skinny as "that girl", or being skinny enough to fit in a pretty evening dress, when it's at the same time as serious disease as schrizophrenia for example. As a result those people not only suffer from a serious mental illness but also from a disorder that's highly disrespected and stigmatised.
I couldn't agree more with the author of this article because I very often observe how people suffering from eating disorders are misunderstood by others. Sometimes even their closest family members don't realise that this is not just a silly teenage struggle but a deadly illness that needs to be treated as quickly and professionally as possible.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/10/averil-hart-death-anorexia-mental-illness-treat-it-like-one
sobota, 2 grudnia 2017
Boys will be boys...
Is male sexuality brutal by default?
The topic of sexual harassment which is widely brought up in the media these days, has shown that there are still a lot of people who consider men to be brutal by their nature. The author of the article suggests that this kind of mindset is very harmful to men and implies that humans aren't be able to change. "The abstinence-only education", as they called it there, teaches girls to prevent men from being physically attracted to them because "boys just can't help themselves". It basically means that women are blamed for what rapists do to them. What's more it also creates a wrong image of men as if all of them were responsible for harassing women.
This article interested me because of a few things. Firstly I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about sexual assaults and how important is the role of male nature in these cases. Secondly I agreed with the author that they are not feminists who believe in this image of a man but they are very often conservative people who (maybe without realising that) are creating a picture of a man-monster. I believe that we shouldn't belittle the issue of the mispotrayal of a man and the role of a woman in a sexual harassment.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/28/male-sexual-assault-nature
The topic of sexual harassment which is widely brought up in the media these days, has shown that there are still a lot of people who consider men to be brutal by their nature. The author of the article suggests that this kind of mindset is very harmful to men and implies that humans aren't be able to change. "The abstinence-only education", as they called it there, teaches girls to prevent men from being physically attracted to them because "boys just can't help themselves". It basically means that women are blamed for what rapists do to them. What's more it also creates a wrong image of men as if all of them were responsible for harassing women.
This article interested me because of a few things. Firstly I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about sexual assaults and how important is the role of male nature in these cases. Secondly I agreed with the author that they are not feminists who believe in this image of a man but they are very often conservative people who (maybe without realising that) are creating a picture of a man-monster. I believe that we shouldn't belittle the issue of the mispotrayal of a man and the role of a woman in a sexual harassment.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/28/male-sexual-assault-nature
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