{"id":194,"date":"2022-01-31T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T20:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/?p=194"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T20:39:06","slug":"dylan-dong-discussion-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/2022\/01\/31\/dylan-dong-discussion-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Dong Discussion #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hi all, my name is Dylan and my pronouns are he\/him\/his. I am a NYC native, and my main interests are makeup, musicals and animals. I am an animal lover, and like to study how gender bias is prevalent in how we treat animals, including but not limited to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the animal agriculture industry, in which female animals are the majority of the ones being exploited and tortured. This is because the males are not financially profitable enough as they do not reproduce. I also love delving into the inherent sexism behind hating cats.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am taking this course because I am pursuing a degree in Gender and Women\u2019s study. A good chunk of my interest in choosing this degree comes from my personal experiences as a queer gender-non-conforming person of color. Because of this, the performance and perception of gender are extra pervasive in my everyday life. The effects of gender bias are prevalent in and affect many aspects of life like racism, sexism, disability, ableism, healthcare discrimination, and financial status\/income. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think that Legally Blonde may be an applicable movie, though I am partial to the musical over the movie because it expands on the plot. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legally Blonde<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> challenges the popular movie trope of a girl chasing after a love interest, changing herself for him, and \u201clove\u201d being the ultimate and even <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">only <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">goal in the plot, by flipping the narrative. It begins with the main character changing her school\/career prospects to win back her ex, however, she ends up discovering herself and her passion for Law and chooses her degree\/career over chasing after a man. The ever-so-inspiring \u201cI was searching for love, but found that love for myself instead.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, my name is Dylan and my pronouns are he\/him\/his. I am a NYC native, and my main interests are makeup, musicals and animals. I am an animal lover, and like to study how gender bias is prevalent in how we treat animals, including but not limited to the animal agriculture industry, in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/gws-100-1100-spring-22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}