Hi there.

My name is Holly and this is my blog. One of them, at least. I've had a few. This blog, however, is the bloggiest blog of all. I guess it's a pretty typical thing, for a blog to be centered around a topic, a project, some sort of new experience that deserves to be documented. For me though, this is my first time writing a blog quite like that. I think it'll be interesting.

This blog specifically is for one of my classes, Gender & Mass Media in the U.S.

I'm taking it as an elective, not a requirement, because I studied some gender issues last semester and found it all really fascinating. It was mostly through my Music, Power, & Gender class, but we covered quite a few gender issues in my Philosophy class as well. I ended up writing both of my final papers on gender linguistics, but from different perspectives. Just the little bit of research I've done on the topic has already opened my eyes to a power struggle that I didn't even know still existed. Obviously men and women aren't fully equal yet, but I had no idea how deeply rooted sexism was in our culture until I did some reading for myself. These issues are alive and kicking! We have quite the struggle ahead of us.

For that reason, I'm looking forward to seeing what this class can teach me about discrimination in the media, not only based on sex, but also race, class, and disability.

As for the moment, I'm going to bed. I need to be awake for class tomorrow!