Gossip!

A guilty pleasure of mine is celebrity gossip sites and magazines. Celebrity gossip websites, are generally gendered towards a female audience. A great example of this would be one everyone knows, http://www.perezhilton.com/.

At first glance the site is gendered as it is all pink. As talked about in class, the content of the site being called "gossip" is also geared towards women, because we all know it is only women who gossip ;). Also, like the facebook idea, this website provides one story about a certain celebrities, as well as links to more stories about them, or other celebrities they are involved with, in the circular form of writing/communication that we discussed in class.

This site also provides a forum, where readers can comment and critique the lives of the celebrities under alias's, which also goes with what was discussed in class. Women (or men for that matter) can comment on the actions of the celebrities and feel as if they know them all from their own home.

The advertisments along the side of the sites are generally all for women's clothing as well, assuming that the majority of visitors to the site are female.

Another great feature? The site provides your daily Robert Pattinson picture!! :P

-BritFan

C R E E P I N G!!!!

This was brought up in class the other day ...

FACEBOOK!!

Creeping: ok well all know what that entails .. many minutes or hours "creeping" (viewing ) others photos, infos, videos, and links ...

Is Facebook gendered?

first impressions: No? ... Because as I took and overall quick glance of my 'friends' list, there 'seems' to be an equal representation of both men and women there.

However, once i start thinking (smoke coming of ears!) ... is it really unbiased? Well not really, we view 'creeping' and new statuses as almost gossip, becuase come on let face it, we have all said ..."did you see what so and so's status said the other day?"
This is a form of gossiping, which overall is viewed as 'feminine' and "Low culture" Therefore, not worth spending valueable time on! However, as previously stated in another blog, How is this different that Checking sport scores, which are represented as "masculine"

Plus, !! ... i think Facebook creators, (or maybe current managers?) market to women with their ad bars on the right hand side of the page. ... I see many pictures of men men who have mysteriusly lost their shirt, appealing to dating sites and weight loss regimes/plans!

And ... it is somewhat of a classist site, becasue you need to have access to a computer, and have enough money to be able to have internet hook ups and pay for those monthly payments ...

Whatchya think??....

~Freddie Mercury~