#metoo Campaign and My Thoughts About It

Oprah Winfrey won the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes this year and she presented a speech that has shocked the world because her story felt inspiring to woman; she talked about standing up towards sexual harassment that some men commit and that women should have power over them. I'm not saying it's a bad thing don't get me wrong. I appreciate women showing themselves that they matter as well.

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#metoo Campaign and Thoughts About it

The one thing I hate about some people is how they can abuse their power too much that it can create a bunch of problems. I'm just sick of this one hashtag that makes people join in the fight. That hashtag is called #metoo. However, the #timesup campaign doesn't upset me even more because I rarely see it get discussed and plus it also talks about men sexually assaulting women; its just #metoo that gets on my nerves.

Today, I will be talking about this hashtag and my opinion on this movement. I'm going to be honest with you. I dislike this movement. However, I appreciate these people fighting for their gender right. In fact, Oprah Winfrey set the record straight at the Golden Globes and it was basically trending throughout social media and it has made people think about Oprah running for president in 2020.

But the fact that they are taking this by force too much, it's just hurting us men. You're basically trying to cease us in having freedom. Another thing I don't like about this movement is how some women have to bring up some stuff from the past that wasn't covered at that time like getting sexually assaulted or harassed in the past by some men. Like why do you have to ruin that person's life at the last second? Some of those accusations can be fake though. They're just trying to make a bandwagon to stand up for the victim that has been involved in a sexual act. This is my reason why I dislike the campaign #metoo.

Well guys, I think I need to stop right here. This blog looks controversial and such and I probably triggered every girl or woman that has read this blog. Once again, I apologize for my anger and rant towards this last blog. These females don't deserve to get hate on because of their actions. We should RESPECT women like we should respect everyone. At the end of the day, both men and women deserve to live freely. This blog is all in my point of view of how I see the #metoo movement leading onto the future. Thank you for reading my last blog and have a great day!

Costume Problems

Introduction

It's that time in October again where Halloween is coming and that means costumes, parties, and trick-or-treating are going to be effective on that day. Every year, kids, teenagers, and even adults plan to dress up as their favourite character or anything else with costumes. Some adults hold halloween parties and invite their friends to celebrate Halloween at its finest. The best part for halloween as a child is trick-or-treating. We would go to other people's houses and ask for candy by saying the words "trick or treat." Then the person that is giving away the candy gives the candy to the trick-or-treater. Afterwards, we move on to the next house. This has been a tradition for hundreds of years and it's still striving towards this day. Halloween is a holiday that kids would never forget besides Christmas.

Situation

When it comes to costumes for halloween, all of us want to dress up as someone we like whether it's a video game character, anime character, mythical creature, jobs like firefighters, doctors, etc. or something else. Some of the costumes we see can ether be appropriate, derogatory, ugly, scary, good-looking, offensive, or maybe even borderline racist. As for the famous party supplier, Party City, they do this every year where one or more costumes can offend anybody of their race, culture, or religion which is exactly what will be discussed in this blog. According to this article from thestar.com, some racist halloween costumes are still being sold throughout Party City stores across Canada. When a woman and her son were shopping for halloween costumes, they found an isle that depicted their culture (in other words, they found a section full of indigenous costumes on racks). The woman was not happy as she replied to a Party City store saying "We (indigenous people) are still here, we are not costumes." The woman has not got a word from Party City yet with that comment. Finally, the woman decided to buy her son's costume somewhere else because she felt like the store she went to disrespected her with the indigenous costumes.

Source: www.thedailybeast.comHere are some examples of some offensive costumes. The first and third costume are depicting Mexicans and that they wear sombreros and ride donkeys. The second and fourth costume depicts Native Americans and how they wear that type of clothing in their culture. The fifth costume is representing some culture but it's undetermined.

My Thoughts

To me, this doesn't look like a very big deal to me as I would usually avoid these types of costumes because if I bought it and wore it on Halloween and someone posted a picture of me wearing a costume like that on the internet, I would get hate comments saying that I'm being offensive to their culture and making their culture look bad or something similar to that. And then I would need to make apology and regret posts stating that what I wore was wrong and offensive and that I shouldn't have worn that costume in the first place. All of this is just my opinion. I mean if I saw a costume that depicted Filipinos and our culture, I would have mixed thoughts about it whether I wouldn't mind or care about it too much or take it seriously and report it to the store owner/manager. Likely wise, I think Party City stores should stop selling these types of costumes like indigenous clothing and more offensive costumes. If people feel so offended by racist costumes or can't take those costumes seriously, then might as well pull them off shelves so that people don't need to hate on party supply/costume stores like Party City. Like mentioned before, I wouldn't take this kind of stuff too seriously. At the end of the day, we are who we are in our costumes that we are wearing on Halloween; we just need to forget about all the negativity that some costume stores are giving us and enjoy the rest of our day in general. In other words, let's just have a good day and not bring up any bad vibes with us throughout our day so that everyone can be happy.

Responding to Racist Dove Ad

Situation

On October 9th, 2017, an advertisement from the soap company, Dove has surfaced on the internet which was spreading around Facebook. The advertisement was showing off its new cleanser in action and several women with different skin tones were in that commercial. The advertisement was not very pleasant to most people. There was one part of the dove advertisement that has got people furious and thinking if Dove was being racist; A black woman was transitioning into a white woman when taking her shirt off. People got upset when they saw that specific part of the ad in there.

Source: www.thealternativedaily.com
This was the specific clip of the Dove ad which sparked a lot of controversy starting on facebook and then all over other social media platforms and news.

In an article from Huffington Post, the Black model in the advertisement, Lola Ogunyemi addressed the situation by stating "I am not a victim; I am strong, I am beautiful, and I will not be erased." Additionally, Lola states that the reason why she wanted to be in this dove advertisement is because she wanted to represent a woman of colour for all around the world and the campaign's objective inspired her to join this advertisement.

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Lola Ogunyemi, the model pictured above was the one that was in the Dove advertisement and responded to the backlash Dove has got for its racist appealing ad.

My Response

It is so interesting how one single commercial can cause a lot of controversy. This is because of the fact that some companies/brands might not know if the advertisement would be appropriate and or offend a single person, race, or religion. When it comes to advertising products or PSAs, we need to be cautious about who is being targeted whether its young children, teenagers, adults, seniors, etc. We need to make sure that our message/campaign can go through safely and have no problems what so ever without having to offend anyone that is affected by this. As for Dove, they messed up on this part. Dove didn't realize how wrong this decision in the ad would be where the black woman transitions into a white woman. This kind of situation was also used back in the old days when they would advertise soaping products. The controversy of that situation was not too big of a deal compared to now. All I got to say is to be careful of what you are advertising and think about the people around you when making an advertisement so that they can think that your message/campaign would be appropriate to them and that it wouldn't offend anybody. That way, we can get through and be happy of what the advertisement is telling us and that we can get along with everyone in the world. This concludes my response to the Dove ad controversy.

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The company, Pears' Soap has used this kind of ad marketing before and it had the same backlash like the Dove ad in terms of racism except that the black boy that is being cleaned by the white boy turns white as seen in the second picture frame.