1. When theorists capitalize Woman as compared to woman they are separating the social construct of a “woman”, as compared to the physical gender of a female. In essence, when theorists capitalize words, such as Woman, they are referring to society’s construction of a Woman, whereas when it is not capitalized it simply refers to the gender of the woman.
2. An audience fallacy is when we assume that we know the demographic and audience in a given situation. For example, if we assumed all people who attended a Bob Marley concert habitually smoked marijuana. An authorial fallacy is when we assume that someone did something intentionally. For example, if we assume that a magazine ad featuring more white people than black is racist.
3. Both videos depict a certain idea of “Blackness”, but they differ in the sense that the Ghetto Delta Airlines video is intentionally creating a satire on stereotypical “Blackness”. However, the Everest College video is trying to relate to a certain demographic; namely African-American, non-college educated, and low income people. It is possible to assume this because of the setting and the individual presented in the video, which can be seen as saying, “I did it, and so even if you are as degenerate as I look, you can too.”
4. The image of the pipe represents the concept of interpellation, which is when one recognizes something by shape because it is familiar to them, much like the common image of a house. The text reads, “This is not a pipe”, which is meant to draw attention to the fact our first inclination to call it a pipe is, in fact, wrong, and that instead this is simply a collection of items assembled in an order to form a symbol.
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