"Head VI" (1949) by Francis Bacon
According to Grant, "in a productive conversation, people treat their feelings as a rough draft. Like art, emotions are works in progress. It rarely serves us well to frame our first sketch" (180).
Option A:
Describe an issue that you have mixed feelings about, possibly something about which your feelings have changed over time. Avoid commonly paired emotions like "happy" and "sad," or other paired sentiments referred to by previous commenters.
Option B:
Are you someone who tends to talk about the blended, mixed emotions you have about people, things, and ideas or are you someone who tends to talk about your emotions in straight-forward "primary colors"? Have you found that these different behaviors are typically "gendered" in our society, such that it is expected that women will naturally have complex, mixed emotions and men will not?
Option A:
ReplyDeleteAn issue I have mixed feelings about is abortion. Half of the people in my life support it and are very vocal about their support, while the other half is against it, and are equally vocal about their disapproval. I find it hard to pick a side when I find that both have merit as well as their own downfalls. My feelings shift to one side slightly more at times, but I keep silent on the topic because, more often than not, I am stuck in the middle and cannot decide what to say.
Lauren George
Option B:
ReplyDeleteThese behaviors, as with many others, are definitely stereotypically gendered in everyday life. I think the idea that a woman’s emotions are more muddled than a man's comes from the idea that women talk more than men. This could simply be because women tend to express every layer of their emotion while men tend to keep things surface level. Whatever the dominant emotional reaction is must be the way they truly feel. I for one tend to have “primary colors” of emotion. Few times do I find myself confused as to how I feel about a topic, but that doesn’t stop me from trying to see things in the light that others might view them in.
-Gracie Tollett
Option B:
ReplyDeleteI tend to talk about my mixed emotions that I have. I think that it is stereotypical and that we are made by society to believe that only women have mixed emotions. However, I believe that men do have mixed emotions as well.
-Anna Herd
Option B:
ReplyDeleteAs I've mentioned in a previous response, I used to view the world as black and white, with everything being right or wrong. Now, my head seems to be stuck in the pesky grey area most of the time. Nevertheless, I have always been the vocal sort. I like to discuss how I feel about certain things compared to others, it's grown to be a learning curve for me. In my experience, there are stereotypes about how women hold and share emotions versus men.
- Morgan McClellan
In my experience, I have found that there is common behavior associated with specific genders in this respect.
Option B:
ReplyDeleteI am someone who has my emotions straight-forward, but also with some complexities. To be more clear about this, I revert to how logical something is, rather than how I feel about it. This is why I’d say my emotions are straight-forward. But on the other hand, when a situation has more insight and requires more of an analysis to understand, my emotions will tend to take over (after I have made a logical breakdown of the situation first). This is mainly because no situation is ever the same. There could be more factors that led to this, more moving parts, more pieces to the puzzle that requires careful attention to detail. In society, I have observed that it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman, your emotions are formed from your experiences. You could be a woman and have straight-forward emotions, or a man who has lots of mixed emotions. It doesn't matter your gender. Your past experiences will shape how you think and how your emotions form.
Option B:
ReplyDeleteI tend to be a person who talks more about emotions as mixed shades and blended palettes. I do not believe that there is every truly one emotion that drives any decision that we make. I also do not believe that the way we talk about emotions are shown to be tied to one gender or the other, though society is still clinging to the idea that they are. The stereotypical norm is that men talk about emotions in a straight-forward and elementary way while women talk about emotions in an elaborate and complex way. I believe that, in today’s world, this is not the case anymore. Many men are now talking about their emotions as mixed and blended while some women are talking about their emotions as straightforward. For me, personally, I think that our emotions are much like many of the more prominent issues featured today: complex. I like to look at all sides of my emotions and try to convey how I am feeling in a way that best describes what I am actually feeling.
Option B:I would say I talk about people, things, and ideas in more of a blended fashion. There are many good ideas out in our world to go along with many terrible ideas. That being said, nothing is ever completely good or bad. There are often aspects in which a good idea may have a terrible drawback, and a bad one a bonus to go with. A good example of this I will actually pull from the Avengers. Thanos has an awful idea, but he carries out that idea because of the bonus it leaves behind. While I don’t condone his choice he was a very convincing villain and the results are rather hard to argue with. After every planet where half the population is killed off, problems like famine cease to exist as there is now much more to go around for everyone. There are very few subjects that deserve to be looked at in a truly all good or bad way. We do not live in a world of black and whites, but in a world of grays.
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