Women of Color Weekly Meetings
The Women of Color Club at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine meet weekly and discuss topics that affect Women in Color throughout the campus and world.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Women Roles in Relationships
--> What is a successful love relationship between a man and a woman?
- there needs to be trust and good communication
- be open and comfortable in yourself
Women and Men Roles
--> What are the roles of women in relationships?
- "submissive" to the man but it must be reciprocated
- balance the relationship out ( if I can't then he can)
- this has changed over times which could be a good and bad thing
- The rise of extreme feminism
- Marriage is legal prostituion?
- A legal business transaction where services are exchanged
--> Is it okay for a man to wear the pants in the relationship?
- No
- Its a woman's role to let the man think he does but in reality we wear the pants in the relationship
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Would you work full time and let your male partner stay at home?
- Hell naw... it challenges his masculinity
Steve Harvey
- A male's perspective on the "issue"
JJ Smith
- A female's perspective on the "issue"
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Geisha and Stripping/Prostitution
Geisha are female Japanese entertainers who play music, sing, act, dance, and even offer sexual services. In the Japanese culture when the geisha culture was at its rise, men were not constrained to being faithful to their wives and used geisha women to fulfill their sexual fantasies. However during this time, geisha women were also imprisoned for selling sex. In order to be a geisha woman there are training methods. However in today's time, geisha women are seen as prostitutes by non-Japanese, however in reality they do not take part in sexual acts. Instead they flirt and entertain their clients. Men are said to amused by the possibility of what could happen; their own illusions and fantasies with these women. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIdgqWPdsA0
Feelings? Thoughts?
Is this different from strippers? What about prostitution?
If so, how? why?
Players Club
strippers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx3SrhmqOtQ
16 yr old stripper
Telling Mom
Comments:
How is this different from prostitution?
Aren't Geisha's respected in society?
Maiko girls are respected because they are virgins.
Do you think it is acceptable to compare Geisha women to prostitutes and strippers?
To strippers yes, prostitutes no.
Geisha means a "person of the arts"; Providing male entertainment
Geisha, the way they dress and held themselves are how they please a man although they are not taking anything off their motives are still to please a man.
Do Geisha's get paid?
Some do some don't.
Everything a Geisha does is very sexualized. How they put on their make up, and tie their robes all have meaning.
Why do most strippers strip?
for quick money.
It may not be moral for some but it's someone's choice to dance/strip or not.
Some people just enjoy to do it.
What's worse my daughter coming to me saying they she's pregnant or stripping?
I wouldn't tell my parents that I was stripping. That's the worse thing to deal with.
"Prostitution is not the world's oldest profession it's the world's oldest oppression"
You can't compare prostitution to stripping it's not the same context.
Our Generation Making Moves




Comments:
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tisha Campbell-Martin and Tichina Arnold



Comments:
Body Image affects everyone across the board no matter your gender, race or personality.
These images are some examples of people that have a desired body. Very sexualized pictures.
Very little statistics on minority cultures that state eating disorders and problems with body image.
Eating disorders are typically "American" disorders. People in China and elsewhere refused to eat for different reasons such as punishment for bad grades, and incompetence which doesn't directly have anything to do with body image and eating disorders.
We eat foods that we know are not necessarily healthy for us but it helps us look a certain way.
Are we satisfied with our bodies?
It depends on the culture. I feel like minorities are more satisfied and people in the white culture are not because they see one perfect ideal beauty. Beauty varies in different cultures. Black men tend to focus on a Woman's large buttox, others go for length of hair, and others for the color of the eyes. Black culture, accepts and embraces the body much more.
Some cultures go the extra mile through plastic surgery to change the way their body looks.
What is the ideal body for women of color?
African American and Hispanic is just CURVES.
Asian communities, Small, slender and dainty.
A lot of Asian women have issues with Lucy Lieu's photos because they feel that she's showing too much.
A lot of people are willing to give up years of their life, to have surgery.
Diet pill commercials. Why is it you have to look like this? Why can't it be work out to be healthier.
Overcoming insecurities to start losing weight.
Everything has their own definition of beauty.
You have to be comfortable with who you are.
Not everybody looks right skinny.
Why is there a misconception that these women are beautiful?
I don't feel like we promote dieting and being skinny, this isn't all of the media's fault but they portray what is beauty.
People have different genetics. People have to learn how to eat right, exercise regularly if your still not the ideal weight you're still okay.
Sometimes women who are big have so much anger towards women who are small. For some people there isn't anything they can do. Don't attack them for it.
Which criticism is more harsh to be fat or to be skinny.
What is fat? I consider fat 400 lbs. Fat means obese. The definition is different.
People are underweight, she needs help and we feel pitiful and those who are over weight there is so much anger. Some people really need help and can't control their eating.
Eating is a drug.
You shouldn't have to change the way you look to please your man.
How does the white culture see us?
I think they think we're fat.
Some white people want curves, but the majority doesn't.
Body Image
Body Image is something that effects both men and women of all of races, sizes, religions, and socioeconomic class.
There has been a multitude of research done that suggest there are no eating disorders or dissatisfaction with one's body in the African-American/Black and Latino/a culture.
Is this true? Are we satisfied with our bodies? Or are we just more satisfied then white women and men? Why are we more protected?
What is the ideal body type for a woman who is of color?
Stats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlbFrtkTKFs
Cocoa Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOQh3evqsI
Tyra Banks
http://www.spike.com/video-clips/iw38y9/phat-girlz-i-was-talking-about-your-beautiful-plump-friend
Phat Girlz
How does this effect younger girls?
Can we solely blame the media?
What about how other cultures perceive us?
Did you know that in some cultures beauty is defined by fattening girls by the time they lose their teeth?
Are these women any less beautiful?
There has been a multitude of research done that suggest there are no eating disorders or dissatisfaction with one's body in the African-American/Black and Latino/a culture.
Is this true? Are we satisfied with our bodies? Or are we just more satisfied then white women and men? Why are we more protected?
What is the ideal body type for a woman who is of color?
Stats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlbFrtkTKFs
Cocoa Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOQh3evqsI
Tyra Banks
http://www.spike.com/video-clips/iw38y9/phat-girlz-i-was-talking-about-your-beautiful-plump-friend
Phat Girlz
How does this effect younger girls?
Can we solely blame the media?
What about how other cultures perceive us?
Did you know that in some cultures beauty is defined by fattening girls by the time they lose their teeth?
Are these women any less beautiful?
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Oprah Winfrey and Tyra Banks

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr9SAEuejU8
2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKbRMcmAfVg&feature=related

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OWopqRCLsw&feature=related
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SuuEKztPc&feature=related

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdMG9u3Klx8&feature=related
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wMnZGQbIh4
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Perspectives on Meagan Good
Quick Bio
Ms. Good has appeared on many different television series, movies, and talk shows. Starting at the age of 4 and continued on from there doing small guest appearances. She then moved on to bigger roles including her first film in 1995, Friday. Years after getting her career on the road, she transitioned from amateur roles to a mature role. But in what ways are her more mature roles depicting her? Or even in a larger sense, how does it depict us as black women? How has the characters Meagan Good portrayed in the last couple years, affected the way other people view African American women?
Different Roles Meagan Good has played
The Game--
Waist Deep ---CoCo
Appearances in Music Videos
50 Cent-- 21 Questions
Tyrese--One
Comments:
She a Hoe! Meagan Good is always in a typical girlfriend/sexual role.
She could play any role but she always gets casted in the same roles.
Waist Deep, Stomp the Yard, The Game. She's always that distinctive role.
Is it a bigger issue, is it Blacks in the mainstream.
When it comes to being a celebrity you get one role and you can choose to stick with that role. In Novela's you always have the same person who has the same characteristics. When people call you to be in the role its based on the past roles that you've been casted.
She is a great woman, she's gorgeous and she has a potential to be something greater than whats portrayed of her on tv.
I liked her innocence on cousin Skeeter.
Meagan Good is not the only sex symbol there are a number of women who have been casted in the same roles like Angelina Jolie, Meagan Fox, Halle Berry...but they have a variety.
Meagan Good has aspirations to be casted as Aaliyah maybe that will show a different side of her.
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