Tag: Opinion
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What’s Onscreen: Ideal Representation or Marketable Diversity?
By Maya Vibhakar The American entertainment industry wants you to believe they support diversity. The movie theaters are playing a superhero movie with an Asian lead. Netflix is showing you an ad for a high school comedy about Indian Americans. But despite this industry’s supposed eagerness for diverse characters and stories, there’s a pattern to…
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Not the Effect, But the Cause
By Jessica Phung What do you want to be when you grow up? I simply want to be happy. For the first half of my teenage years, I kept this answer close to my heart with the belief that there was enlightenment in this life path. I sought it out unknowingly, crippling myself as I…
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Moist, Panties, and Lesbian? The Demonization of “Lesbian”
By Ania Sokolowska The word “lesbian” is depicted as such a dirty term that even queer women shy away from it. People argue that it’s “just a word,” citing how many also dislike the way “moist” and “panties” sound. The difference is that lesbian isn’t just a word. Rather, the word lesbian represents an entire…
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The Art of Comedy: You’re Supposed To Be Offended
By Brendan McMahon Comedians are rhetoricians: they use the creative license afforded by their medium to make bizarre associations and reveal unique perspectives. It is dangerous and controversial by nature, and while comics should be mindful of the line drawn by society, they should never back down from antagonization in their work. Comedy needs to…
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Your Tuition is Going Towards Hearing Your Professor’s Unsolicited Take on Bernie Sanders
By Ava Chader Picture this: your poli-sci professor just gave you a pop quiz that asks you to, in two or more sentences, describe what Marxism is, and you’re panicking. You vaguely remember communism being an authoritarian regime founded on a lack of individual liberties, and of course, you include ideas learned from your self-proclaimed…
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We Should All Take Gender Studies Class for a Better Life
By Cindy Hsu It is quite odd to me that people think gender studies is a bullshit major. When speaking about gender studies, there is often a perception that it is just a woman’s major focusing on female empowerment. Considering it to be a “woman’s major,” we also think of gender studies as something easily…
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Suck it Up and Fall in Love
By Julia Torres Hooking up. Although most college students are familiar with this term, it has a multitude of definitions. Personal boundaries determine what our minds think of when we refer to hookups, but we can boil it down to three foundational characteristics: transactional, temporary, and impersonal. This shallow level of interaction has become the…
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Coming to Terms With Campbell, or a Case Against the Hero’s Journey
By Kaveh Nasseri When Joseph Campbell, writing in the late 1940s, coined the term “monomyth” to describe a particular kind of structure for a particular kind of story, particularities were the furthest thing from his mind; instead, the learned mythologist was on the hunt for universality, for archetypal themes with the potential to unite stories…
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Copyright is Screwing Over Your Favorite Artists
By Leo Rector For many people, the topic of copyright holds a connotation of protecting artists. After all, artwork does fall under the category of intellectual property, and the blatant theft of someone else’s ideas for the sake of financial gain is the crime that copyright law was originally intended to punish. However, media companies…
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What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About Birth Control
By Kimya Afshar Doctors are nothing more than the fancy white jackets they sport and stethoscopes they hang around their necks; these social niceties are symbolic of their function as tools of tradition, carrying along a historical legacy of know-all and apolitical, altruistic practice. This social construction is the intention, at least. Even with all…
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