Introduction

 Introduction posts: 

Hi my name is Ethan Pazmino and Im majoring in cyber security and I'm in my sophomore year of high school. I love to play soccer and basketball as well as practicing martial arts. I was born in Jersey and then moved to Florida when I was 10 and moved back when I was 20. I enjoy going to the gym and getting better everyday at everything I do.

Understanding Patriarchy by bell hooks:

"Patriarchy is a political-social system that insists that males are inherently dominating, superior to everything and everyone deemed weak, especially females, and endowed with the right to dominate and rule over the weak and to maintain that dominance through various forms of psychological terrorism and violence."

"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 apart of."

I think that the author learned at a young age what patriarchy was and how prominent it is in society and decided to always challenge it because of how she was brought up. Her brother was a year older than her and she would see the effects of patriarchy of how they were Both treated by their parents and society.

What meme owe to history:

"Memes are essentially 100 years of text art boiled down into your feed" said professor Darren Wrestler, research chair at Concordia university, who argues that memes are a type of everyday conceptualism".

"performance brought art into the streets and public spaces, leveling the gap between artist and audience"

I love looking at memes about all types of things whether its sports, the music industry, or even some political ones and think that we as a society should be glad memes exists because of how it helps us communicate with each other. The art of memes is you can be anyone who has an idea and knows how to edit pictures together and then post online for everyone to get a laugh at.

Memes are our generations protest art: 

"Under Donald Trump specifically, Burroughs says, memes have grown in popularity as a way to express political opinions, similar to how George W. Bush’s presidency gave rise to liberal blogs"

"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"

We are fortunate enough to live in a country and time where we are allowed to criticize and question our leaders with no worry of getting arrested or killed. In other countries like the England you can get arrested for things that you say on Facebook and even sharing memes with your friends that the government deems offensive. So the fact that we can make memes that protest what we see in the news or what our president does is very special