Kids?!

We were asked in the lecture if we think this film was shocking. Well…yes. I must say though I wasn’t as shocked as maybe I should have been. When the film first came out I think it would have been a lot more shocking to audiences than it is now. This is mainly because excessive drug taking, sex etc are quite common in films featuring teenagers. I suppose the thing that shocked me the most was the age range of characters – or how old they were depicted anyway. Watching the four male children smoking drugs was unconformable watching for me. I guess this is because I have a younger sister and I couldn’t imagine kids her age behaving in this manner. I don’t agree with this kind of behaviour even in films because those kids were not over the age of consent (he said they al were but just depicted as not) and they were still doing it.
I obviously didn’t like the main character because he treated girls like crap and he had AIDS! It was an important message though. I just find it crazy that these girls didn’t know that if a guy asks you to sleep with him on the first date he obviously doesn’t care about you. I guess that was a message. The girl diagnosed with Aids went on a journey in the film that I think the audience could relate to because of the sympathy we feel for her. All her mates were sleeping around and yet she does it once and she gets aids.
It was a thought provoking film but it would have been nice to see a better ending with maybe her telling Telle about the aids. It seemed to build up and then just stop. It didn’t really go anywhere. It was more like a documentary because there was no plot with beginning middle end. It was just following people around.

Heres a link that gives you some info on the film - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/

Field trip?

Well what have we been doing so far?? Smoking, Stealing, masturbation,Infidelity .... I'm thinking some sort of trip to LA where they make all those Naughty movies...just kidding.
umm... I don't know....Mars. We should have a practical field trip or something. Something we can all enjoy. I'll have to get back to you.

Infidelity

All I can say is – it is not okay to cheat on someone. If you are in a relationship you should be 100% committed no matter what. I mean everyone finds people attractive even if they are in a relationship, but you shouldn’t act upon it! You obviously think the person you are with is pretty great to be going out with them in the first place, so that is what you must remember if you are tempted. I don’t know if I’m just being terribly old fashioned (I am all of 19 years old) but that is just the way it should be.
If you’re in an open relationship then that’s a different story because that means you are both agreeing to it. I can’t think what kind of original relationship you must have if you need to go to others to be satisfied but there you go.
I define cheating as doing it behind your partners back (not literally of course - that’s just crossing a line) and that involves lying, selfishness and scheming. How can you look your partner in the eye when you’ve been with another behind their back? I couldn’t do it. I’m awfully honest though. It’s just such a horrible thing to do if you do cheat. I mean if you’re unhappy then leave that person and pursue the next – don’t have that ‘cake’ and eat it! A relationship is a two way street – a compromise - and if you’re a person that only thinks of themselves then you shouldn’t be in one.
Heres a helpful site if you've been a victim of infidelity - http://www.infidelity.com/

That Thing No One Likes To Talk About

Well well well week four was certainly a education. Masturbation. Ahh dosen't that feel better to say it without cringing and falling into that black hole next to you. I have to say though, something i learned was the amount of names for the subject in question. So - many - names. It was an interesting subject thuogh.
I never would have thought I’d be writing this at uni but life is full of surprises.
What I found interesting about the whole thing was how scared we are to talk about it. (Well actually people seemed quite at home discussing their dirty habits didn’t they?) It is a huge taboo in the media though. I think it was almost unheard of in the public eye a few years ago, and now it’s heard quite often in comedy shows and things like that. Although that is still reducing it to ridicule – is it okay because we are laughing about it and not talking it serious? Maybe. However behind closed doors it is an unspoken common occurrence so everybody is aware of it at least. It’s something people don’t like to talk about but are happy to do alone. Why do people get embarrassed though? I mean I was laughing in the lecture, but when we had to fill in that paper it was embarrassing wasn’t it? It seems to just be human nature. Maybe because it’s seen as ‘sad’ to be at home alone and giving yourself one? I coulnd't really explain it.
Men do seem more prone to it though, and they seem to find it easier to talk about. Funny that.
Has anyone watched Ricky Gervais 'Politics'? When he says his friend was doing this and when he opened his eyes he saw his mum had walked in and left him tea and biscuits??? Oh the Shame.

Being Bad Week Three

After watching Family Guy my views on shoplifting are - It is no different to any other theft. Stealing is stealing no matter what it is. you are still taking something that is not yours and that is bad no matter how big or small it is.
I think people who can afford things shoplift because it gives them a rush. Doing something that you are not supposed to do and not getting caught gives some people excitment and just that feeling of grabbing that book, or whatever, and managing to get out of the shop unnoticed is a feeling of high. I think they like the fact they are 'getting one over' on someone.

After watching breakfast at Tiffinays - I do not think it is prostitution to take money from someone who is expecting sex. It's more conning than anything else. She has conned that man into thinking he will have sex with her and he is a fool for falling for it. She is more a con artist than a prostitute.
On the subject of if it is more or less socially respectable i think it is less because she is taking advanatge of someone and that is always frowned upon.
Resonable charge - I say if you can get away with it take as much as you can get. If she has to endure this guy leering at her she might as well get handsomely paid.

After watching Peep Show - Stalking - A interest in someone turns into stalking when that person starts to obsess over someone in a unhealthy manner. This is following them, being always where they are, getting paranoid, asking univted questions and bothering them. These people can only think about the other person and it forces them to have this want to always be near them hence the stalking. (p.s if this sounds familiar change your lifestlye.)

Here's good site to help you stop stealing - http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/learning_problem/stealing.html