Friday, May 18, 2012

Just A Conscience Or Purposly Done?

        "Broadcasting a World of Whiteness"  is this recent article that we read this week about a show called Girls on HBO having bigotry suggestions towards their casting decisions. Apparently this new t.v show series have an "all white cast" with an couple of interracial people (with few lines).
         This article is written by Jon Caramanica who believes that the show also has racial comments like in episode 2 when "Adam promises to make the “continent of Africa on” Hannah’s arm" and when 
 "Jessa (Jemima Kirke), nervously facing down an abortion, insists, “I want to have children with many different men, of different races,” as if they were trinkets to be collected, like key chains or snow globes."
            Some people think that the cast should be more diverse, but other people think it shouldn't be changed because it is a okay show and has a lot of hits. The creator Lena Dunham doesn't have to put someone she doesn't want to put in, she probably thinks it could mess up the whole flow of the show.
           I'm not saying that I am okay with an all white cast, cause i am not. Also the screen play lines is just a conscience that they sound that way. I am just saying maybe it could and maybe it couldn't. But if some people from different nationalities was put into the flow of the show it would get the bigotry comments.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

New Gun Swagg

       In Journalism class this week we read a article called New Fashion Wrinkle : Stylishly Hiding the Gun, about a organization named Woolrich a 182-year-old clothing company. The special thing about this article is that Woolrich Industries are making clothes that are capable of hiding a firearm.
       People say that these type are of clothes are good for protection, they say that this helps gun owners practice "maximum uncertainty" which means meaning that if a gun is sufficiently concealed, a potential criminal will be unsure whether to attack. Gun experts are trying to see if this kind of tactics slow down crime.
        This is a big change because in 1980's people could only conceal their weapons with a permit in 8 states. If this clothing because more popular among gun carries other clothes company like: Polo, Hollister, Abercrombie and other top clothes line.
        I believe that it is a good thing that these clothes are being made, if crime becomes reduced. But if it only causes more pain and suffering then it shouldn't be legal. Yes it will send a message to criminals that you shouldn't mess with just anyone because you don't know what they "have". But some people might use this new crime for their own purposes. By own purposes i mean that they might try to rob a store or someone without a gun .