First blog

Hi everyone

My name is Coralie and I'm in my fifth year of Law/Arts (majoring in women's studies). This is also my first time reading or contributing to a blog so I'm quite excited to see how it goes.

The website I'm going to share is Lamebook. While I realise this is clearly a ridiculous website created mostly for amusement I also think it's interesting in that a lot of the time it is making fun of people who 'overshare' on facebook or choose to discuss private issues in such a public forum. This issue of the private/public divide relates to women's studies generally and this unit. Lamebook can also include comments that are very nasty and intended to put other people down which relates to what we were saying today about how, while blogs and the internet can provide support networks for many, it can also be a site for far more criticism that anyone would say to a person's face.

Also, I just wanted to quickly comment on the question about why the course is called 'women's studies' and not 'gender studies.' In my first year we discussed this issue a bit and from what I can gather it is called women's studies because, while we do discuss masculinities and gender generally, the course is without a doubt more focused on women and calling it gender studies would mean the course would have to change to be more equal in its discussion of men and women. Also, I personally think it should be acceptable to have a women's studies course :)