GONE HOME
Even though I didn’t get a chance to really play the game and get the feel of the whole story line, from the video that was shared on YouTube with someone playing the game, I took away so much from just a hour video. There is a girl name Katie who had returned from overseas. She was so excited to see and spend so much time with her father, mother, and teenage sister Sam. She gets home to discover that they aren’t nowhere to be found, and she finds a letter on the front door from Sam. Sam wrote about how she went away and to not come looking for her. So, throughout the game Katie has to find little clues around the house to help her understand what happen to her family since she was away. My first reaction to the video game, was suspense. I wanted to know more just like Katie did. I was very concern about what happened to the family, and I felt like I was in the video games with her discovering so many different clues. I would honesty get the game, and would play it to discover all of the hidden secrets.
Kathleen Hanna (1991), “Riot Grrrl Manifesto”
I feel that The Riot Grrrl Manifesto was a movement that Washington State band Bikini Kill and lead singer Kathleen Hanna that voiced how many women wanted to just be free to express themselves through music. Whether it was with anger, rage, or just being loud. I feel that they wanted to speak up for many girls around who were afraid of jumping out of the norm society has given girls. When society sometimes think about rock music, people tend to just think about predominantly male bands. It was very closed off to females. When you really think about punk rock music, we tend to think about a very loud deep, dark voice, with these large guitars and these crazy movements on stage. A lot of people don’t really see women going these things, because they always wanted to put us into a box and keep us controlled. Even in history women were looked down upon if they didn’t act a certain way.
I feel like for the past few weeks we have been focusing on the many ways society puts us in these categories and how we have over come these standards. Like with the Feminist movement, women fought to have the same rights as men. The Combahee River Collective Statement, Women of color and women of lesbian came together to fight the fact that even though the women rights movement was a success, they still didn’t include all women of color and sexuality. The Queer theory! Queer was once a negative term, and the LGBT community took the word and made it something positive. All these different moments in history can really connect with the Riot Grrl movement. The fight to just be themselves without being criticized and judged. For acceptance.
Research Assignment!
I think that both of these topics really ties together with what we have been talking about for this whole semester.
- Gender Bias- I would focus on the many differences of men and women within jobs, home, church, ect. The disadvantages and advantages of both sex.
- Job Segregation- I would focus on the many issues in which some jobs people may feel a little segregated because of their age, race, color.
The one thing that instantly cheers me up is thinking about all the amazing things that God has done for me 🙂 I feel that i am super blessed even when i am going through my toughest times in life. I may not have everything that i want in life but i am grateful for the things that i do have.
Great work! Your post helped me understand the Riot Grrrls more. The connections you made to previous texts were amazing, too. I hadn’t considered those until this. Also, your topics for the research essay are great! It would be interesting to compare the differences between people in different scenarios.
Nice work on your connections! I had not even thought about the Combahee River Collective Statement compared to the Riot Grrrl Movement. For your job segregation essay topic, you could also include how different gender are more wanted in certain professions. For example, being an engineer is seen more as a male career.
You did a great job, and I love the God recognition.
Society will always try to put us in categories with labels, just let us be who we are. That one thing that cheers you up does the same for me, good job.
It’s interesting that you discuss Katie more. It seemed as if she and Sam had a great relationship. You are right though, she has been gone for a year and gets home and everyone is gone. So the Riot Grrl Manifesto was awesome to me and I felt that the manifesto fit Lonnie in the game. I love your research ideas, especially Job Segregation.