I am a little late when it comes to reading Confessions of a Video Vixen especially since I read Vindicated first. While reading the reviews of Vindicated, I noticed where a reader explained how Karrine’s story came full circle at the end of Vindicated because she had finally been Vindicated. I was scrolling through the comments section and noticed a reader suggesting that readers pick up Confessions of a Video Vixen to read about how Karrine became a person who thought violence was normal and continued to stay in and return to abusive relationships. When it comes to why Karrine wrote Confessions of a Video Vixen, I knew that Karrine didn’t just wake up one day say “Hey I’m going to hook up with celebrities and write a book about it” there is way more to the story than just writing about hooking up with Ja Rule, Usher, Diddy and Ice-T. In my opinion, Confessions of a Video Vixen is an example of what happens when a poor foundation has been created. Karrine’s foundation began with an abusive mother and absent father. I believe one of the saddest moments in this book outside of Karrine’s mother abusing her and lowering her self-esteem was how her ex (who she met at 17 while stripping) kicked her out while she was pregnant because of an argument and before she left, he demanded …show more content…
that she cook a steak for him and the only thing he cared about was making sure his steak didn’t get burned. Another sad moment in the book was when Karrine was being put out of her home and she called a few of the guys she had hooked up with and partied with and asked them for money so she and her baby wouldn’t be put out on the streets and they didn’t seem to care.
According to her, they provided thousands of dollars for shopping sprees and other things, but when she really needed help they could only spare her a few hundred dollars. Karrine learned that these guys were just using her and turned to hustling in order to feed her son because she was broke due to her addictions. It was a lesson that Karrine had to learn the hard way when it came to the men she thought really cared about
her. In my honest opinion, Karrine went looking for love in all the wrong places because of the poor foundation that was built for her. Karrine’s mother and ex told her constantly how she was unloved and the cycle continued in this book and her other books. I’m glad that Karrine wrote this book because it is important for people to know what goes on at video shoots and Hollywood parties. I also understand what Karrine met when she said that if readers purchased this book just to see what Diddy did then the point was going to be missed because there were important lessons in this book besides hooking up with celebrities. It was awesome reading the biography of Karrine’s life and reading the “more” to her story because like always there is “more” to a story and this wasn’t about a person snitching and name dropping from my perspective. This book is worth the five stars I’m giving it and I see why it was a New York Best Seller. Lastly, I received Vindicated and read it in two days at the beginning of June and by the end of June, I had bought five of Karrine’s books. When I start reading Karrine’s books I read them in two days or less because I can’t put them down. It’s nothing for me to lose interest quickly in a book, but that’s not the case with this book because Karrine’s books are some of the best I have read and I highly suggest to them to readers who are looking for interesting books to read.
The specific situation I will talk about is towards the end of the film, Mae Mobley watched as Elizabeth (her biological mother) fires Aibileen, who was practically her only mother figure since the maids did most of the parenting during this time frame. A similar plot happened with Skeeter. Her mother also fired their maid, Constantine, who raised Skeeter as a young girl. This can be very traumatic especially to younger children because to the kids it was just like
Jeannette started to lose faith in her parents after they could no longer provide for her, and swore that she would make a better life for herself. “I swore to myself that it (her life) would never be like Mom’s…” (Walls 208) Jeannette has the idea to move to New York to escape her parents, and pursue her dream of being a journalist. She decides that her older sister, Lori, will have to escape with her, because Jeannette would never leave Lori alone with her parents. The next day, Jeannette buys a piggy bank to start an “escape fund”. To make money, Lori would draw and paint posters for kids at school and sell them for a dollar fifty. Jeannette would babysit and do other kids homework. She made a dollar per assignment and and babysat for a dollar an hour.
The girls decided to start a traveling fund before they left for New York. They got little jobs around the town they lived in and were payed little money for doing a lot of work. They put their time and effort into making that money so that they could start a new and enhanced life for themselves. However, as written in the memoir, Walls talk about how one night their piggy bank, Oz, was robbed and all of their hard work in earning money and dedication was a complete waste of time. She writes “One evening in May, when we’d been saving our money for almost nine months, I came home with a couple dollars I’d made babysitting and went into the bedroom to stash them in Oz …I knew it was Dad, but at the same time, I couldn’t believe he’d stoop this low.” (Walls 228) Knowing that their own father had stolen their hard-earned money for something like alcohol, and still being able to talk to and be around him shows a great amount of forgiveness. They forgave him and that allowed them to move on with their lives rather than sulking about what he had done. Walls’ yet again shows another amazing example of a traumatizing experience with having parents who were selfish and were more concerned about themselves and their own petty
Wendy McElroy in “A Feminist Defense of Pornography” argues that degrading is subjective to each women and it’s up to them to define it. As much as that is true, does it mean that there shouldn’t be a standard to the word “degrading”? Take for example, pain is subjective, the same papercut can feel painful to me yet not to another person. There are even people who suffer from congenital analgesia (the inability to feel physical pain), But does this mean that it is right to inflict physical pain on those people? The law is the standard for defining physical pain and so the term “degrading” should also has its standard as it will cause harm to others.
1. Initially Reyna Grande and her siblings Carlos and Mago were left behind while their parents immigrated to the United States to work. During that time Grande faced many struggles among the most prevalent were her feelings of abandonment, the neglect she and her siblings faced at the hands of their paternal grandmother, and the ostracization due to their circumstance. Reyna and her siblings were left behind when she was a baby by her father, as a result Reyna had no concrete recollection of him during hi absence. Two years after her father left her mother left to help him in America when Reyna was four years old. Until that point Reyna’s mother had been the only parental figure she had known. The abandonment didn’t stop at the physical absence
Modern America, in accordance to course materials and personal experiences, overtly sexualizes people, specifically among the youth, engendering new versions of gender expectations, roles, relationships, and how society views people based on appearance, sexual promiscuity or supposed promiscuity, and so on. Easy A (2011) represents an example clarifying how gender socialization impacts today’s youth via several concepts such as slut shaming, slut glorification, challenging masculinity, dating/hooking up, gender expectations and social acceptance. This film primarily focuses on a female’s promiscuity. Olive, the main character, is automatically labeled slut, after a rumor she unintentionally sparked by a bathroom conversation. Soon, the rumor spread and Olive became “school slut” in minutes.
In society today, media such as movies and music share huge roles in the dynamics of culture especially concerning communication. In Dream Worlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video we see how famous singers and producers in the making of their music videos have the power of illustrating our language and beliefs. From the music we listen to and things we watch, we are constantly gaining new knowledge by the message that is being presented to us. The main focus of this specific documentary was how women in the music or media industry all together are treated. From this documentary and lectures in class we see that media objectifies, stereotypes, and degrades women and their bodies as advertisements and money makers. Themes in the film discussed
Within the novel, When Everything Feels Like the Movies written by Raziel Reid, there is strong graphic language and depictions of sexuality. Throughout the novel each character including Jude and Angela explores their sexuality and experience the repercussions that follow. The graphic language and depictions of sexuality help to develop the quality of the novel and the characters involved. The novel also brings awareness to bullying involving the LGBTQ community, which is a major social issue. "Adolescent Sexuality and the Media: A Review of Current Knowledge and Implications," written by Gruber, Enid, and Joel Grube states that “there is growing concern about young people 's
In today’s society, pre-existing assumptions and stereotypes of other ethnicities and individuals play a large part in the way we see others. This social construct of stereotypes has placed restrictions on many people’s lives which ultimately limits them from achieving certain goals. In this sense, stereotypes misrepresent and restrict people of colour to gain casting within the Hollywood film industry. The issue of how casting actors to certain roles and how these actors are forced to submit and represent these false stereotypes is one worthy of discussion. White Chicks (2004), directed by Keenan Wayans, illustrates this issue through the performance of Latrell, performed by Terry Crews, and his performance of the hyper-sexualised “buck” will be a prime example in this essay to discuss the racial politics and stereotypes in Hollywood casting.
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The story is told in first person through Tangy Mae Quinn, the darkest child of Rozelle Quinn. Rozelle is a light-skinned woman with ten children by ten different fathers, who separates her children based on skin color. She shows favoritism to her lighter skinned children and hatred to her darker skinned children. This is important because the story takes place in Parksfield, Georgia in the late 1950’s, right before the civil rights movement. It starts off with Rozelle Quinn teaching Tangy Mae how to clean her employer’s house because she believes she is going to die over the weekend. News of Rozelle “dying” spreads throughout the town and even beyond which brings her oldest child, Mushy, back into town. It is later revealed that Rozelle is only acting as if she is dying because she is pregnant. While in town, Mushy promises her siblings that she is going to save them from the abuse of Rozelle, but says Tarabelle has to be first due to Tarabelle’s exposure to prostitution. Months after giving birth to her child, Judy, Rozelle kills her by throwing her off the stairs. After this incident, the children slowly start to leave her although Tangy Mae and Laura stay by her side. After majority of her children have left, Rozelle is diagnosed with insanity and is forced to move in with Mushy. By the end of the story, Tarabelle is killed by a fire started purposely by her mother; Tangy Mae has graduated high school and taken Laura with her to cross the Georgia border.
I believe confession in this video can be viewed in numerous different ways. Much of what Tom Clark was saying was admission to the camera of things he should have said back then to his lover and regret over how he handled the situation. This video intrigued me because in a way it was a reflection on past confessions or lack thereof. It directly relates to our class topic as we focus on “how we talk about talk” and the video is Tom Clark talking about how he communicated years before to himself and Gianni. One of the reasons this video doesn’t feel like a “normal” confession is because Tom Clark makes it seem like he is just chatting with people, but it just happens to take place in front of a camera. Clark’s ability to completely be exposed and vulnerable will be helpful in inspiring other people to share their stories of a conflicted self. Just like so many other confessions, his story can be used to help people struggling with similar
is at its peak in the media. In today's society, the young are able to
Feminist theory was derived from the social movement of feminism where political women fight for the right of females in general and argue in depth about the unequality we face today. In the aspect of cinema, feminists notice the fictitious representations of females and also, machismo. In 1974, a book written by Molly Haskell "From Reverence to Rape: The treatment of Women in Movies" argues about how women almost always play only passive roles while men are always awarded with active, heroic roles. Moreover, how women are portrayed in movies are very important as it plays a big role to the audience on how to look at a woman and how to treat her in real life due to the illusionism that cinema offers. These images of women created in the cinema shapes what an ideal woman is. This can be further explained through an article 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' written by a feminist named Laura Mulvey in 1975. She uses psychoanalysis theories by Sigmund Freud to analyze 'Scopophilia' which is the desire to see. This explains how the audience is hooked to the screen when a sexy woman is present. In a bigger picture, where Scopophilia derives from, 'Voyeurism' is also known as feeling visual pleasure when looking at another. Narcissism on the other hand means identifying one's self with the role played. It is not hard to notice that in classical cinema, men often play the active role while the women are always the object of desire for the male leads, displayed as a sexual object and frequently the damsels in distress. Therefore, the obvious imbalance of power in classical cinema shows how men are accountable to moving the narratives along. Subconsciously, narcissism occurs in the audience as they ...
In this essay I will discuss how the visual film children of men, by Alfonso Curon shows us that the self is an ever changing thing. We see this through the main character Theo as throughout the film he develops and changes dramatically as a person, as himself. This is seen through the film techiques of tracking shot/establishing shot, High angle shot and dialogue.