In class earlier this week, Sal had a student salivate onto a sterile spoon. He then proceeded to talk about how important saliva is for our body. After that, he offered the student to take back her saliva and she refused to take it back. When Sal asked her why she didn't want it back, she said "because it's gross", yet couldn't give a good reason for why it is any different than the saliva in her mouth other than the fact that it turned from "saliva" to "spit" when it left her mouth, which has a much more negative connotation in our society. Social construction is the true reason why the student wouldn't take the saliva back, which is that society has created experiences, which make it socially acceptable to do something such as swallow a spoonful of your own spit.
I was a competitive cheerleader for much of my life and our uniforms were basically sports bras and booty shorts, along with almost every other team there is in the world of competitive cheerleading. Because of how society is, this attire is completely appropriate for a cheer competition, yet it is not okay to walk down the streets or around the school in a sports bra and spandex.
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| My cheer team from 2011. |
Great example.
ReplyDeleteSociety shapes us , we don't shape society although we create what's hot and what's not, but mostly it shapes us and what we can do and can't do, and o nice someone follows their own dos and don't its not accepted, I think that you should follow your own rules even if its not accepted
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