Data and
Analysis
The Big issue about this article is about The “F” word (Feminist),
Minority among
groups are making Feminists look bad. A few comments
toward Michelle Obama were like
about Forcing overload, being anti-male, educating her
daughters as well as America’s girls, and
more. As I read through more of the article it seems
as if the viewers are saying that Hillary
Clinton has been able to take on more political duties
than Mrs. O, but others are saying that
it’s because her children were older than Mrs. O
(Michelle Obama) daughters. Mrs. O decided
to dedicate more of her motherly duties more so over
political duties, and a lot of people were
viewing her as a feminist. . Some statements quoted in
the text reads, “many feminist have
forgotten that motherhood still works,” and “Blame
feminism for the actions of black men in
Hip Ho, prison, and destruction of black community.”
G is known to understand how it is to be
misunderstood by others, how these viewers
are placing Mrs. O at the bottom of
leadership. Some readers are upset about the fact that being a full-time mother
is considered to be “un-feminist.” As long as the political job gets done and
women have equal rights then there should be no issue. A quote from one of the
readers, Journey2Freedom( which also had the most ‘likes’ from her response)
said,” I consider myself a feminist - I consider myself a feminist but have found it difficult to be a
part of the white female dominated movement which fails to realize that BLACK
WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS WORKED OUTSIDE OF THE HOME! In fact, at one point in time,
usually in THEIR HOMES because up until very recently it wasn't even an option
for most of us.”
The community of black and white, male vs. female is forming a discourse
community of hate or anti-hate against leaders, while the media having a strong
influence to these actions. The media has a way of changing the minds of what
people see through pictures, blogs, and social networks, another quote from a
reader says, “It’s funny how women try to put other women against each other
and men don’t do that.” (Balling and tired of the BS)
A reader from the comment post mentioned that Essence
Magazine (media/ Blogs) plays a part in this act against Mrs. O (Michelle
Obama) because, in most photos and articles they published or posted viewed
Mrs. O as our fashion leader, parenting leader, hairstyle leader, etc. instead
of strictly viewing her political works. Michelle Obama (Black African
American) and Hillary Clinton (White) both are great leaders that have
accomplished a lot of feminist duties and should not be compared or judged
against each other feminist roles.
The comments of the articles speaks about the reaction
of the topic about Michelle
Obama being our feminist leader. Throughput the 24
comments there is a mixture of male
and females responses, when Essence magazine is known
to have an Audience of only
women, and ,mostly African American women. The topic
was so broad and hit a lot of
people whether male or female that it even brought up
in discussion of racial comments
and comparison with our former first lady Hillary
Clinton. I will analysis these comments
into sections of positive responses and negative
responses and point out how many ‘likes’
they receive by their comments. This way I can shoe to
my readers how much the people
view this article, how it affected there set mind
frame, how the people feel about Michelle
Obama, and other racial thoughts and comments about
the comparison with Hillary
Clinton.
The
sections highlighted in yellow have the most ‘positive’ outlook in
commenting about this article, and the section
highlighted in red is the sign of warning
giving off negative comments about the article. The
chart below will show how many
likes or dislikes did each section receive and then we
can come a conclusion of how the
media affects the minds of viewers.
Positive
Negative Likes No Likes female/male
Working man * 2 M
DanI L. Rebel * 5 F
Links 31 ? ? 0 F
Asiainakron * 1 F
Journey2Freedom * 11 F
Balling & tired of BS * 7 F
AriannaS ? * 9 F
Del * 4 F
AriannaS reply of Del ? ? 7 F
Sydnie * 10 F
The chart shows the few comments of the 24 from the reader’s
response about the article
viewer Michelle Obama to be our feminist leader. It
only published 1 comment from a
man and to be the first the response at that, and he
seemed to view this article in a
positive way, that’s ideal coming from a man because
they usually don’t get in the middle
of female discussions. The bold mark of the reader
named Journey2freedom has gain the
most likes
throughout the published articles, I really feel like she made a good
point
about the article and feminist and I myself would have
‘liked’ her comment too. There
was a brief back and forth response between AriannaS
and Del, not so much about
political views but about how the people once viewed
Michelle to be, which is all about
fashion and hair.
