Are you nothing or something?

        "How are you, Nothing, sitting around with Something's wife." (6/7) really had my mind spinning. One reason it has my mind spinning is I am not sure on who the speaker is. Is the speaker Lorine or Lorine mother or both. I can see it being Lorines mother more than Lorine because in another poem I assume it was Lorines mother and she referred to Lorine as a nothing. Why does she see her daughter as a nothing? I just noticed also that if its the mother she is calling Lorine husband a something instead of his name. Why does she keep referring to them as nothing and something when they are human beings and have names. Lorines mother should be proud of Lorine for who she was. Lorine was her own person. She didn't want to be like everyone else and I think that's what her mother wanted.

        In her poem "My Life By Water" she describes the things she sees and hears. She says "Muskrats gnawing doors" which door is she talking about and why doesn't she try to prevent that from happening. In class we had a discussion about this poem and how she might feel about everything that she sees and hears. I said that she must be okay or content with the muskrats gnawing at the door because she has done anything to stop them from doing that. I know she loves nature and muskrats are part of nature and she does not want to do anything to harm anything related to nature. But there is a way where she could prevent them from doing that without harming the animals.

        Although that poem was set up different it was a really good poem. When you have more than one person read the poem you hear different words go with different lines. Poems like that keep you thinking about find a bigger meaning. Most of Lorines poems do that and I applauded her for that. I cant wait to continue to reading her other poems. I'm just so excited.

Gender Roles

          A gender role is a set of social and behavioral norms that are generally considered appropriate for either a man or a woman in a social or interpersonal relationships. There are many people that think that gender roles play a huge part of our lives. Advertisement definitely plays a huge role in gender roles. When a woman or man is in a advertisement, the advertisement make sure the male looks, talks and acts like a male and the same thing goes for the females.

          Some thing we discussed in class is that a straight guy does not want to hang around or associate with a homosexual guy. Some people do not understand why that is and I see their confusion but then I don't. The reason straight guy do not want to hang out with a homosexual guy is because it  goes outside of the norm. When a straight male "hangs out" with a Bi-sexual or gay male they are looked at weird other people tend to look at them weird. By weird I mean not normal. Questions start to go through the mind of the people that are witnessing the act. The questions they ask to themselves is, is that other guy gay? Are they a couple? Why do they think that is not weird. Those question to themselves turn into questions to other people.

          Once those questions get asked to other people the questions turn into jokes among themselves. After they laugh a little with each other certain people decide to act and ask the questions to the Bi-sexual and Gay male, but why is that? Is it because guys are immature? Is it because maybe they are feeling the same way but do not know how to express it or is it the way we act? I really cant answer that for all guy but I think its just the way we act. Sometimes we joke about it but there are times when we can actually mean it.

          I think you should not judge a person based on whether they are straight, gay or bi. Who are we to tell you what you should be. I try so hard not to judge people but ever so often it happens. No one is perfect and there is not a soul out there that can say they have not judged anyone before. I have judged a guy based on whether he was gay or straight. I was nervous that the guy was going to hit on me or that I was going to get made fun of by my friends just on the fact that I associated myself with him. I did not make fun of him but I did stop talking to him which was wrong. He acted straight so no one knew he was gay but he told the wrong person and that person betrayed his trust.