Talking Point #4

"Unlearning The Myths That Bind Us" by Linda Christensen

I feel that what linda Christensen is trying to say is that Everyone needs to live their own lives and stop trying to dictate to people how to live their lives. Everyone needs to stop trying to conform to society and just live your life to the fullest and how you want to live it


1.) "we are also taught how t0 succeed, how to love, how to buy, how to conquer, how we forger rhe past and suppress the future. We are taught, more than anything else, how not t0 rebel."

i feel that this one quote puts in perspective my whole summary of the article. W are told how to live our lives, even on a subconsious level. we are told what "ropes" to cross and what not to. We are told "how high to jump" and so on.

2.) "I don't want students to believe that change can be bought at the mall, nor do I want them thinking that the pinnacle of a woman's life is an "I do" that supposedly leads them to a "happily ever after."

This quote is important because it shows how our society is today. This shows that we think that any problem can be fixed with just some material value, which is absolutely false. If a man loses his wife in a car accident, and the driver of the other car that hit her pays the man a million dollars, does it make the accident any better to deal with for the man, absolutely not.

3.) "They assure me that they make their own choices and the media has no power over them -as they sir with Fubu, Nike, Timberlands or whatever the latest fashion rage might be."

I think it is funny that the children, in this case, contradict themselves as they are talking to the teacher. It is true that some kids can get away from the "media brainwash" but most do not. They conform to society whichever way that the media wants them to and they do so quickly and unwaveringly.


I think that this quote was a fun ready for me because it was short and to the point. It allowed me to interpret all the information that was put in front of me without me going into "overload."
This article shows you how much the media and even people with some form of power have over other people and it honestly makes me sick to think that someone can and will take advantage of another human being in that way, to almost the point where most of us are treated like dogs with out handlers saying " buy this" and "get that." it honeslt makes me sick