Ms.Blog

   While surfing the internet I found Ms.Blog Magazine and found articles under Media on how women are presented and how women in the media has change throughout the years. It also included articles on what the media is doing to women, and on sexism, and on how power fears women. This blog not only contains facts and articles of women in the media but it also contains women in arts, health, justice, life, work, and globally. I believe the authors main argument is to inform people what women are capable of, what women have gone through, and what we can do to make genders equal. What I like about the blog is that it seems that anyone can contribute to the blog and help better it.
    What I find persuasive about the blog is the fact that it not only talks about women in the media but it offers other problems and struggles women have gone through. Although my blog only focuses on how women are portrayed in the media I believe we can also help the blog by incorporating women's struggle in the world politically and socially. This source is reliable even if some articles can be bias. The articles state statistics and facts which help their claim about women.

Invisible Woman

Cleo Thompson's argument states that role models are vital people that serve a purpose to women because "they provide a sense that change is possible,  a glimpse of the future,  an alternative perspective on what life might be like “there”,  perhaps some tips and hints on how to get there"(Invisible Woman Syndrome). This blog addresses the topic on women in the media because it emphasizes how people in the media are focused upon because of their looks. However, Thompson focuses on women in a different angle. She follows up on a story in where there are two celebrities in a science related series, husband and wife, but the husband gets more attention because of his appearance and states how the wife, Gia, gets left in the background. Instead of being recognized as Gia, she began to be recognized as "Brian's wife" and although that bothers her, she states "I’ll just continue washing his pants" while she figures out how she fits in the picture.
Cleo Thompson addresses the issue well because she does not only summarize it and give details about the situation, she provides outside reliable sources and she includes her input on it. Thompson provides support and makes the post seem conversational, and she also includes questions in her blog posts which I feel I could adapt into this blog. The format of her blog is not split into two paragraphs, but more than ten- they are not long though. It just gives it more of an ease when reading so it is not just straight forward. It could be considered a good reliable source of a paper to serve as a supporting evidence because she provides many links so the reader knows where she got her information from and makes good points in her argument and claim.

Feminista Jones

Going through blogs, I come across a blogger who immediately catches my attention. Feminista Jones. Feminista Jones is a very insightful and an inspiring blogger. Addressing may issues that others wouldn't dare talk about such as domestic violence, , and . In  her post "#NaBloPoMo- In the Nick of Time", Feminista Jones discusses this topic by beginning with the percentage of women who die from domestic abuse. She then goes further into the topic giving off cues about the severity of domestic abuse. Feminista Jones invites readers of all kinds to stop and think about this issue and to head way to those who are affected. She gives a strong argument about the severity of domestic abuse and challenges those who are abused to take a step back and to evaluate their own self worth and if they deserve the abuse they continue to receive. Feminist Jones provides her readers with an outreach group and a hotline for people to get in touch with. She is an inspiration and a writer I highly admired due to her courage to write about topics others are uncomfortable and to confront and try to ease the issue. Feminista Jones is clearly a feminist who enjoys discussing serious issues, mostly pertaining to women. She is very persuasive and reliable as she talks about her research and where she gets her facts from. Feminista Jones is someone who I would consider a good source and an excellent writer. Very enjoyable.

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