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I learn how to run a shop and to make pretty art? LOL I hate school ROFLMAO

ROFLMAO honestly the only classes I learned anything in where literature classes based upon pop culture. Two of my professers wrote their disertation pieces on Anime and it's influence on Pop Culture. Oh and it's a good place to meet friends...I dunno I think ti's just busy work but meh that's just me.

Actually one was a mandatory class I had to take in Portland, which was fine by me learned a lot about human experiences and how to express them. Back in Hawaii I took a sociology class and that's where I became quite vocal about my views and took many classes like it arguing my points through pop culture. So it is my goal to become a teacher and start my own class, a historical class based upon pop culture and it's influence on our society and women's study. LOL I'm weird I know

Pop Culture is the term for "Popular Culture" the mainsteam media that can be understood by more than just a subculture or counter coulture. It is the overall culture of a society found in the different subcultures, in satire and literature. Pop culture is the music that is most listened to, the movie most seen. Star Wars was in it's release a Pop Culture Icon, but now has become a subculture of it's own.

My goal is so shakey, all I know is that I want to help teenagers, I want to work with high school students, and I don't want any girl to go through what I've been through, I want to promote understanding and to change the way people FEEL. IT's easy for me to change the way you think, but how easily do you think I can change the way you feel? The way you view society and your role within it...Sigh...here I'll write a passage in one of my favorite books that really opened my eyes...

"As Ellen Willis put it, most succinctly: "Feminism had transformed women's consciousness without, as yet, trasforming society, leaving a gap between what many of us demanded of a relationship and what most men were willing to give." The proof: Go to any bookstore and there are hundreds of titles in the self-help section about how to overcome love addiction and fear of abandonment and how to deal with commitment-resistant, impossible men-Smart Women, Foolish Choices and the like--there is not one book addressed to men about how to work out their own damn problems with relationships. No book for men about how to get over fear of cimimtment, how to learn to open one's heart, how to stop running from emotional involvement-I know, because I searched high and low for such a thing for my last boyfriend and it doesn't exsist."

It is a book based upon pop culture and the history of feminism from the bible on. So if you undersatnd this paragraph:

"I probably DO need to learn to behave. But I don't like it. It seems like, all this, all these years of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Gloria Steinem, Susan Faludi-all that smart writing all so we could learn to behave? Bra burning in Atlantic City-so we could learn to behave? Roe v. Wade-so we could learn to behave? Thelma & Louise-so we could learn to behave? The gender gap-so we could learn to behave? Madonna, Sally Ride Joycelyn Elders, Golda Meir, Anita Hill, Bette Davis, Leni Riefenstahl-all those strong, indefatigable souls so we could learn to behave? What good really have any of those things done if we still get the feeling that we have to contain our urges and control ourselves in the intrest of courtship and love? Did Germaine Greer importune us so long ago with the words "Lady, love your c**t," and did Anka Radikovich regale us with her tales of sexual picaresque in The Wild Girls Club so we could be told never to succumb to sexual abandon on the first date? After all this agitation, along comes "The Rules" to tell us that we're not even allowed to accept a date for a Saturday night after Wednesday."

The first set of names are very famous feminist writers, pop culture icons ESPECIALLY Virgina Woolf and Gloria Steinum. Gloria is even mentioned in the Bloodhoung Gang's song Long Way Home. But so is Voltaire and Stienbeck. Heh, yeah and this book was for my own enjoyment...it was either this one, Nickle and Dimed in America, or c**t...^_^''' I like to read sociology books just for fun >.>

It's actually not that easy, LOL I was a psych major before anything else, studied it for two years, but that's basically the micro study of how we react to stimuli and what not, sociology is the macro. Yes it would be nice to change the way people feel individually, but can you imagine changing all of society? It will become a norm instead of an ideal. I am an optomistic idealist, I wish that some women wouldn't feel the need for self fullfilment through the attention of men. I wish that women wouldn't have to "behave" and conform to the chauvanistic norms of this society. And I can change the way the idividual thinks, but the norms will still be intact and there will be those that suffer for it. Due to my past, I've met many...too many girls who have fallen into the same situation as I have. And though I am there to help them get through it as I have, to grow and be stronger, to not be subdued or weakened in spirit due to such norms of male aggression and the gender roles we must play to be considered accepted, and I see the change in their eyes...I would rather have society deem all such nature as immoral and thus creating a more accepting enviornment one based upon self fullfilment, instead of the rat race we run now. Is mostly why I enjoy socialism though it really only works out on paper. Ideals work in small groups, but in large society, they tend to fall apart...but I don't stop trying, I'll work small, start out with one class full of 20 students, then another class of 20 students, and if I get through to just 2 of them per class and they get through to 1 of their friends who get through to another one of their friends, maybe the ripple effect may change how women are viewed in society...I guess that's my hope and goal. *Yeah I care way too much for this subject* LOL

LOL Meh I'm just odd like that. Had a lot of bad experiences in life, but meh C'est La Vie, Carpe Diem, La Vie Boheme and all that jazz LOL.

C'est La Vie= French for "Such is Life" Carpe Diem= Latin for "Seize the Day" La Vie Boheme= Probably French "Life of Boheme or Bohemian" I learned them each from a movie, music, or just general philosophy

C'est La Vie is also a song sung by B*witched...

Carpe Diem was the main theme saying in the movie Dead Poet's Society as well as "Captain my Captain"...

La Vie Boheme is one of the songs in the broadway musical and movie RENT.

Each in it's pop cultural application are ways of looking at life, the philosophies of how we deal with the trials and tribulations that we each go through. Most I think can be traced back to the Transidentalist period of literature and culture like Emerson or Therou....I think that's how you spell their names. The civil leaders of the 60's have looked to this time period for inspiration in their pursuits. heh...and there I go rambling again >.>