Evaluations from November 9, 1999

Topic:

• Wrap-Up On Gender and Disabilities
• "My Left Foot"
• "Paris is Burning"
• Madonna's "Vogue" (revisited)

Rank today's presentation from 1 to 4 (1=totally useless and 4=Very useful)

1. Overall evaluation of class: 3.18

2. What was the most useful or meaningful thing you learned or insight you gained during the session?

•  really liked "My Left Foot"
• That everyone wants the same thing
• the vogue thing and My left foot, how hard Kristy tried.
• what vogue came from
• Maybe I don't have to do a media paper.
• How the vouge(sic) related to the balls.
• To tell you the truth, nothing much.
• what vogue actually means
• Everyone pretty much wants the same things in life.
• Learned that most people want almost the same things out of life.
• Vogue-the background and what it really means. Anyone can do whatever they want and can get what they want if they work hard on it.
• Gender is not definite.
• That we could get out of media paper by doing the trial
• finishing the movie "My Left Foot", I really enjoyed it. I feel it opened my mind. The 2nd video "paris is Burning", erased some stereotypes that I possessed about the gay community it must be very hard
• That there is a whole other culture out there that I have yet to learn about
• Time is precious
• viewing and forming opinions on the diabled and others. Drag queens. learning to adjust to them.
• The meanings of vogue.
• The video Paris is burning.
• That handicapped individuals do not want to be treated differently.
• Christy Brown is a very inspirational person.
• another culture: "Vogue"
• The Vogue and how wrong it was of Madonna to exploit the drag movement.
• How persistent handicapped people are or how us normal people aren't persistent at what we want.
• Voguing! I can't wait to tell all my friends. I have so much respect for what there (sic) families have made for themselves.
• regardless of diff. we all have a universal list of desires.

3. What question(s) remain uppermost in your mind as we end?

•  How do you meditate
• what are you expecting in our Media Paper
• What do we have to do for the case
• How do people know that they want to change their gender?
• Can I still hand in index cards from a while ago? Can I still make it up?
• None
• Should I act as the defendant?
• Will I be picked for the prosecution?
• The reason people get a sex change if they are gay.
• How do you explain Gayism? What is it? How does it come about.
• what is gender?
• Why was Paris is Burning so long?
• Time limit left in class is going to be bad.
• journals
• How old is Christy Brown now? How does he feel about all?
• why Madonna did the song + video Vogue.
• There is very little usefulness from Paris is burning, people would accept more if they knew less
• I still don't get Paris is Burning.
• Who's "dissing" who in the video...? expand.
• nothing really
• Why did most of Voguing people want money so badly. Maybe due to the supermodel image?
• uhhh...I'm overwhelmed.

4. What was the "muddiest" point in this session? (In other words, what was the least clear to you?)

•  I can't meditate
• The vogue thing but then I understood it at the end!
• Too many movies!
• No comment
• None (2)
• Nothing
• what impact will voguing have in anyone's life?
• Paris was good, but man did it drag.
• nothing really
• Break
• Vogueing
• I still don't get Paris is Burning.
• Watching "Paris is Burning" and watching people transform themselves
• No one taled today. I got a kind of weirdness from the "Crew."
• Paris is Burning...a lot of gender issues brought up-confusing of goals.

5. Other comments:

•  I fell asleep watching the "Drag Queen "tape (sorry!!)
• It has been a great class so far.
• I didn't particulalry care for this class
• you + me all we want to be is lazy.
• I never realized what Vogue meant (I was in 4th grade) until now.
• Paris is Burning set me back in opening and accepting
• "My Left Foot" is probably one of the best films of all time -for me. Very touching + inspirational-especially since I saw it when I was approximately 8.
• What does Paris is Burning mean? I don't get the title of the movie how do they relate
• If you get a sex change. can you have sex?
• deciding between Media paper + pros/def trial..Really hard decision...also i feel like I am in the middle of way too many books for this class...Very Stressed out.