When I read the prompt for blog 3 this cultural artifact instantly came to mind for me. star wars the movie has always been an important piece of my life. I first saw this movie when I was a very young boy, and I would marvel at the way space looked and thought about life beyond the earth. This movie really made me think about what it means to be human and I love every piece of the series and universe. Liking star wars wasn't cool like it is today either. When I was younger I was called a nerd and a geek for enjoying science fiction movies like this one but now a days things have changed. People have really opened there eyes to concepts like space travel due to movies like this glorifying and idealizing heroes in these movies. Star wars is a huge movie franchise too. Everyone knows about star wars even people from other places in the world. This movie was also one of the first movies to put a women in a position of power. Princess Leia was the whole entire point of the movie. Sh
In today's world the fitness industry is a multi billion dollar industry that not only effects how we work out and try to get in shape, But how we see genders and gender rolls. I have chosen yoga pants as my cultural artifact. The have existed for years and have been part of fitness for a long time, yet modern day yoga pants push the gender rolls and stereotypes to a whole other level. I chose this example because I am working in the fitness industry and was surrounded by fitness people from this work. The people who created this were fashion designers and marketers. They try with billions of marketing dollars to show that yoga pants are worn by fit sexy women who are health contentious. The format in which this content is delivered is through this marketing, are presented to everyone who even thinks about getting in shape. They hug women's legs and butts to make them on display for the world. Women who are getting into fitness are instantly shaped from this marketing, as i