Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us

"Quotes"

#1: Many students don't want to believe that they have been manipulated by children's media or advertising. No one wants to admit that they've been 'handled' by the media." (Christensen, 128)

I was able to really connect with this quote. Being a girl that grew up with Disney Princesses and other cartoons, I can say that I wasn't the slightest bit influenced by them but I would be lying. Growing up i always dreamed of my prince charming showing up at my door because that was what I was showed in everything i watched and what i thought was supposed to happen. Christensen explains that children need to know at a certain time that these stories are stories.

#2: "I want my students to question this accepted knowledge and the secret education delivered by cartoons as well as by the traditional literacy canon. Because children's movies and literature are short and visual, my students and I can critique them together." (Christensen, 127)

I feel very strongly about this quote because I am currently a student who questions this knowledge and I have questions about it. Because I will be an educator one day, I hope that my students will have the same kind of strong feelings about this or something relate able and ask the questions and do anything to find the answer to them. I've learned the only way your going to learn is if you wonder and question things. that is a message I hope to teach my students one day.

#3: "Both of these tales leave young women with two myths: Happiness means getting a man, and transformation from wretched conditions can be achieved through consumption- in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle" (Christensen 133).

This quote really stuck out to me while reading. I completely agree with the authors statement because it is 100% true. A great deal of children's movies are portraying that the only way to happiness is to be with a man and taking his money. One lesson that I learned growing up is that no women needs a man to keep their own in this world. I am on my way in life so that I am able to live on my own, without the help of a man by my side. All young women should have this same outlook on life because there was a day where women didn't have all of the same freedoms and opportunities as man did. We need to take advantage of what our past female leaders did for us show the world we are just as independent as men.