Talking Points 4

" Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us" by: Linda Christensen

1.) "When we read children's books, we aren't just reading cute little stories, we are discovering the tools with which a young society is manipulated." (126)

• This quote made me think about how this is true, Some children’s books do this. It is like most of the book parents have in their house have only white people in them. They don’t see it as wrong, but they are causing problems they might not know. It is sad how kids grow up and they are being manipulated.

2.) "I realized these problems weren't just in cartoons. They were in everything -every magazine J picked up, every television show I watched, every billboard I passed by on the street." (Pg. 134)

• It surprises me that these kinds of messages are every where. This quote also makes me upset because I don’t want to go around and see the wrong in everything, but I know that I can’t live my life being oblivious to the world.

3.) “Early in the unit, I show a Popeye cartoon….that depicts all Arabs with the same face, same turban, same body, and they are all thieves swinging enormous swords.”(130)

• I was surprised how stereotypical Popeye is, this is horrible how they portray Arabs. I think it is wrong how the cartoon made the thieves all look a like and they didn’t care about who they are hurting in the process of making a cartoon.
  
  

I liked this article and thought it was a good read. I found myself shocked when I was reading some parts. Like the part in the article about all the cartoons have these messages in them. I was surprised by how many subliminal messages were in cartoons, movies and TV. Now by reading this article I can see all the wrong in these cartoons. I am surprised that I never really notice maybe because I guess, I was oblivious to it. I think it is like the invisible backpack we carry around, we see these cartoons and movies all the time but the problems in them are invisible to us. Overall, I find it sad that these movies and cartoons that I grew up with had such bad things in it that I never knew.

This video shows when you play a song backwards sometimes you hear it say a message. I know that these can be debated, but i think it is strange that these songs have subliminal messages.