September 16 Blog Journal 1

Today was my first day monitoring the chat forum in which i am doing my essay on. The forum is alt.movies.Kubrick and is dedicated to the film-making of Stanley Kubrick(one of my personal favorites). The first thing i came to notice was just how many posts and discussion there were which had nothing to do with Kubrick himself. Most of them were dealing with McCain and Oboma, and other politically geared discussions. I figured i would pick something like movies, or a director, assuming there was a better chance the the discussions would stay on topic. I was wrong. There were good discussion posts and arguments nevertheless. One that caught my eye immediately was an August 12 post tittle THE SHINING: FROM THE PLAYFUL TO THE OMINOUS. It dealt with the violent and sexual connotations of the movie, and how most of them revolved around the elements of 'playing'. Its not very important, but i choose to look at it closely because the talk was of a sexual nature and i was looking to see if there were any aspects of gender bias in the conversation. In 9 long posts between 4 people, there was one woman. I don't know that for sure but i have a very strong feeling it was a female. In any case, assuming she was, her opinions were retorted by somebody else, and she later agreed. And i found no elements of gender bias, although the conversation they were have was very fun. One post i found was a set of photos of John McCain that were photo-shopped to make him look ridiculous. This must be a mature discussion group because absolutely nobody commented.