Have You Ever Been Told by Your Parents to Go up There & Change ?

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 Have you ever been told by your parents to “go up there & change”?  Did your parents ever forbid you to hang out with that person?  Did your parents ever show disapproval for a certain type of music that you were listening to?  Have you ever said something that was taken the wrong way?  Have you ever said to the effect, “Yes, that’s what I said, but that’s not what I meant”?  Did you ever have a conversation that you thought was straightforward but it ended up being about something else?  Did you ever make – intentionally or unintentionally – a double entendre?  Do you have any in-jokes with your friends or family?  Do you & your friends have “code phrases”?  Do you & your lovely-dovey have a song?  How does mood/theme music work in movies & shows?  How do parodies & satires work?  Ever have a crazy English teacher point out symbols in a story?  Transtextualization, references, allusions?  Are there stores you wouldn’t want your parents to see you shopping in or you wouldn’t want to see them in?  Have you ever heard of someone being made fun of for shopping in a certain store or wearing a certain brand of clothes?  When you went to your job interview, what did you wear & why?  Why are the clothes you wear to school different from those you wear to work, to date, to hang out?  Why is it so easy for us to “judge a book by its cover”?  Why do teens decorate their rooms, cars, lockers?  Have you ever been asked out by someone you thought of as only a friend?  Do you attract a certain type of person – again & again & again?  Have you ever given someone the wrong impression?  Do schools have certain auras/impressions/reputations about them?  Do cities, sports teams, sports?  What’s the difference between denotation & connotation? Subtext: Family Circus cartoon Bil & Jeff Keane 3/5/14 http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/comics/king-comics.html?feature_id=Family_Circus

 father reading to children (not mother?)  Disney-ification of childhood  fairy tales & childhood (sanitized versions)  philosophy, existentialism o we = Snow White in this sense o we = live the same “story” over & over again o without understanding “why” o The Matrix . “Because you didn't come here to make the choice, you've already made it. You're here to try to understand why you made it. I thought you'd have figured that out by now. “ . “No one can see beyond a choice they don't understand, and I mean no one…” SO WHAT?  sheeple: o propaganda = control o “Goddammit, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.” o We've all been raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't…” o “Right. We're consumers. We're by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty -- these things don't concern me. What concerns me is celebrity magazines, television with five hundred channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.” o “The things you own, end up owing you.” o “You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your F***ing khakis. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. . “You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else, and we are all a part of the same compost heap.”  stereotypes: o “once race is seen, as Walter Lippmann said, the stereotypes our culture has about those groups "floods fresh vision with older images” o AGE o RACE o SEX o GENDER o SEXUAL ORIENTATION o RELIGION o ETHNICITY o WEIGHT o Clothing/Fashion o Hair Style o TATTOOS  awareness = empowerment