Discrimination to Human Beings and How Panopticism Influences Societies

     Michel Foucault writes about Panopticism as being a machine that reinforces discipline that a power presides over a social body. He describes there being social policing in all societies, the rules of how someone should be are not universal although. But social policing is a mechanism that everyone has come accustomed to in modern day society. Dominant managers of society are the people in charge with power and tell what the people at bottom of the pyramid should do. Thus, people at the bottom of the social pyramid police each other on how to act by disciplining their own social class because they aspire to be like the people at the top of the social body. We have all encountered discipline in our modern day society but have you ever stop to think why do we do the things we do to each other?
 
    Now moreover, on discrimination to me. Not being good enough for others and disciplining myself on how I should act because of what is right and wrong in society's eyes.

              Veins by Victoria Marvin

    When I was in elementary school, I got made fun of a great deal of times over a duration of a few years because I did not fit in the groups of kids that were bullying me. I got called multiple name throughout 3rd to 6th grade when I lived in Bakersfield. Though I did have good friends back then that liked me for being myself. Kids would show off and say remarks to me like "Your so pale you can see your veins!" Then they started to call me "Veins". I hated being defined as just a object of the body, "Veins."

    Spontaneously, during my Junior year in Honor's Art class I got to thinking about people and how they try to control other people's actions of self expression. Moreover, why do people usually try to control me and tell me what is "good" in their opinion in such a harsh manner? Why do I always feel subjected to  comply to their ways of being? Why do I have to change for people, to fit in, aren't I an individual with my own thought process?

      Starting to understand how we talk to each other and our reinforcement to be a certain way deeply influences someones perspective on their own life. This piece of art I did is about myself not trying to break free of all these disciplinary controls. Yet,  I have been putting up with a disciplinary society I live in. For this instance, the discourse of childhood that choose to discriminate me for being too pale. Finding out about my feelings I learned I was just a puppet in my own skin because people felt the need to punish me to reinforce my thoughts of myself being ugly.

     You might have notice and wondering, why the bald head in this picture? That is to show that I am human just like you going through the same discipline society. Applying myself to find my own of balance of what rules I must follow to obey necessary social order. Additionally, if you notice the puppet creature is wearing a dress this is because I symbolised myself as being able to find beauty with in myself. Doesn't matter anymore of the bad binary they claimed I was part of because I don't care what people label me as ugly. That's just unmeasurable judgement of what beauty is that happened many years ago.

                  "Real Women" vs the Thin? Is Skinny Hate in?
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     Discovering later in my adolescent years that I actual am quite beautiful in my own way. I have gained my confidence about myself through multiple ways society describes how women should be and having fitting myself into that category. Many women and I have been deeply influenced by what we should look like and how we should talk and act. What is beauty, what is not?

    Most females in the beginning listen to what their parents, family or friends tell them about the way their body image. They discipline themselves to look a certain way primarily what the closest people around them say about themselves. They might try to render their body through exercises, eating healthy, do diets were they might just not eat for long periods of time (anorexic) and binge eating on usually "bad" food then throwing up (Bulimia).

    I wanted to discover more about how women's shapes are being displaced in social media. Historical for a few decades women that are thin or skinny have been use to be displaced as the icon of what a beautiful girl should look like. I found out that currently women with more curves that are "toned" are being praised. Society says now that curvy women have more beauty then thin skinny women with no curves. Women that are "healthier" looking not a super model or stick figures that are  now more appealing to men. Women judge others women by saying what society's social media dictates likes better through social media outlets like magazines about beauty. Why do women have to judge other women though why do we have to disciplines are youth about beauty vs. non beauty. Shouldn't everyone have a say on what's normal to them? Which actual people do my the way they talk to others about what they think is right. Usually trying to influence people on how to eat like them because that's what they do. People have no limits we all have the right to self expression and are bodies are part of that. We can choose to discipline are self's because of what society tells us that is good. If not choosing to be healthy we choose the bad part of body image by being to skinny or to fat. Disciplinary societies usually give us the answers because they want us to make the better decisions about ourselves. The more preferred body type is curvy, thus, I want to change myself to be like them. We self-disciple ourselves because we want to fit in and be part of the norm of society.

           Eve and the Apple by Victoria Marvin

     Religions also tell us what is right and wrong about ourselves. Women are thought in the Bible as just objects of reproduction and to be modest is the best a female can do. To keep her mouth shut and not say ways of life are not right because men were in absolute power back then in their disciplines society.

     The Bible clearly states Eve's idea to steal the apple was because she was tricked by the snake-devil himself. She was ending up influenced to eat the forbidden apple with Adam which created disorder between the Garden of Eden where she was living with Adam.

     They were locked out of immortality because of Satan's influences of Eve. They would die because of their doings against God's Will. The Bible gives more examples of binaries to follow what is good and bad. Society is born with this vision that were are evil creates and must change ourselves to be worthy of God.

        YOU DESERVE RAPE, Says Worst Campus Preacher Ever                                                                     

     A campus preacher wears shirts that discriminate against women and other people's religions. They consist of logos against women's rights no Nazi feminism, "Muslims" shirt saying infidel meaning atheist, (finger pointing) you whore. Which I found completely absurd that he thinks he can control women and people's opinion's by simpling saying remarks to women as he does in his campaign. He tells women that if you dress provocatively you deserve rape because you wear what? Asking for no consistent sex? He has no boundaries of what is his to control. He thinks telling a social body that you deserve rape is an incentive to listen to his tactics is cold cruel discipline that no one is going to obey his logic in modern society. 

     Luckily, we have a government to take care of us which is made from Judicial powers. The people vote on what the majority wants, in this case our social body thinks rapist should have the death penalty. He is advocating that we should forgive rapist and blames victims from dressing to skimpy and being wasted is their own fault. People all over the world do not have to same views on life and they will try to use a panoptic mechanism to get what they want out of society just like this man. He is trying to change others ways of life's because he believes that his perceptive of Bible says. We should all be weary to believe other people's interpretation of the bible and find out for ourselves before making our judgement. Judgement is what controls people to do what they do we are disciplined and shaped into what we are by panopticism. As well we can learn how to use panopticism for are self's to create change of others. Although I do not agree what this priest is saying because I believe he is crazy to think that about  how women dresses a certain way deserves to be raped.