Raul Midon - Life Beyond Research Papers + Blindness + New Technology

MY MOTTO: "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." Richard Feyman

I do both Jay and Jane

This plays into our discussion regarding Gender Stereotypes. The song "I do both Jay and Jane" clearly distinct these roles through the eyes of a bi-sexual who sees men and women as equal. The song states:

Jane is sweet as honey, the taste I'm teasin'
She knows how to hit the spot, her touch is pleasing

He knows how to make me hot, his heat is healing babe
He is a special man, long, rough, and rugged

The adjectives that she chooses to describe women "sweet as honey" "her touch is pleasing." On the other hand, men were described as "long, rough, and rugged."

Ciara- Like a Boy

Ciara's song, Like A Boy is the pinnacle of relationship gender roles in our current generation. The song is implying that there is a certain way that men act which would be unacceptable for a woman to do since in apparently she can't "switch up the roles and be like that."

Sometimes I wish I did act like a boy..

Like A Boy lyrics

Pull up your pants
(Just Like Em')
Take out the trash
(Just Like Em')
getting ya cash like em'
Fast like em'
Girl you outta act like ya dig
(What I'm talkin' bout')
Security codes on everything
Vibrate so your phone don't ever ring
(Joint Account)
And another one he don't know about

[Hook]
Wish we could switch up the roles
And I could be that...
Tell you I love you
But when you call I never get back
Would you ask them questions like me?...
Like where you be at?
Cause I'm out 4 in the morning
On the corna rolling
Doing my own thing
Ohh

Kanye West and Religion

I love Kanye West but it wasn't until today's class that I realized all his religious references.


Jesus Walks
*Basically the Whole Song


Can't Tell Me Nothing
*I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven
When I awoke I spent that on a necklace
I told God I'd be back in a second
Man, it's so hard not to act reckless
To whom much is given, much is tested



Never let me down
*Let it been known that God's penmanship has been signed with a language called love
That's why my breath is felt by the deaf
And why my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blind
I, too, dream in color and in rhyme
So I guess I'm one of a kind in a full house
Cuz whenever I open my heart, my soul, or my mouth
A touch of God reigns out
((MANA ANYONE?!))