My name is Andrew Diaz, I'm a freshmen at NJCU and also a transfer student. Ever since I was little I always loved watching cartoons everyday which inspired me to draw a lot throughout the years. I eventually drew from paper to digital now on procreate, it was quite a fun challenge honestly. In my free time I draw lots of fan art of shows and comics I love to watch and read and post them online for everyone to witness it. In the future I aim to accomplish being a storyboard artist, animator, or at the very least a comic book artist for my career choice. I've always been fascinated by the field of animation and perhaps someday I get to be part of the industry.
Understanding Patriarchy
1. "I was always more interested in challenging
patriarchy than my brother was because it was
the system that was always leaving me out of
things that I wanted to be part of"
This quote truly dives into the perspective of how the daughter is rebelling against the patriarchy system of male dominance. Especially when it came to playing marbles with her brother and being disciplined by her father by whipping her with a broken board from the screen door, all because she showed a form of aggressiveness. It just proves how corrupted patriarchy was back in the day.
2. "The crisis facing men is not the
crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity"
Not only have women suffered from the system but men and not that many have seemed to notice that. Men suffered mentally through this backward system having to prove to themselves and everyone around them that they're ones in power and control. However that makes men lack any emotion whatsoever, never allowed to express any sadness or regrets which can impact them in such a negative way.
What Memes Owe to Art History
1. "Memes resist today’s norm-culture in the same way the performative turn of the 1960s disrupted Modernism"
This quote explains that memes are unique forms of art that doesn't follow any of the traditional artistic culture. Memes are shown to be expressive in more humorous ways for everyone to get a good chuckle every now and then.
2. “Narratives matter.…Pictures don’t speak for themselves,” he said, arguing that memes are not just jokes"
This quote definitely stuck out to me mostly because not every meme online is all fun and jokes. Sometimes it can be taken the other way around from others to backlash anyone they disagree with. It's also has a tendency to be more vile and hateful when it comes to speeches on social media and cause some problems.
Memes are Our Generation's Protest Art
1. "But when it comes to the anti-Trump memes at least, what shines through—beyond the sense of play—is indignation, the amusement of ridiculing powerful figures, and the comfort that comes from collective coping"
I always do love the fact that memes can be way to make fun of power hungry authority figures. I also do love seeing Trump being the main punching bag in memes. Showing off his ridiculous comments and actions in funniest ways in the forms of memes online, showing off who he really is as a person.
2. “There’s a whole genre of these activist memes that have emerged and are being used to push for social change and bring things like racism to the forefront using memes, and that’s extremely powerful,”
This quote here shows that memes can also be used as a tool for justice as activist memes. Calling people out for being racist and putting them on the spot for example. This category certainly is something that everyone should use in their lives and making life more safer and better whether in real life or online.
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