#femininity is hardly even considered feminine and so a women performing none of it is suddenly hypermasculine and 'being difficult'

[rosetower]

I just think it's bullshit! That we are expected to qualify ourselves in the 4-5 sexual attractions we're allowed to have in this western society. I don't think having a complicated gender experience immediately qualifies me as bisexual because I do not experience attraction to all genders but more importantly there is a large pit of gender expressions I am plainly uninterested in and completely numb to. Let me put it like this. I am more attracted to the performances rather than the inherent "are-you-a-man-or-woman-or-neither"s. Do you go see a play again if you don't like the acting? Maybe you don't like an actor, maybe you have to go and sit in a different seat. Maybe you need to go see a different play. Maybe the plot sucks. But do you buy tickets to see a play again if you don't enjoy the performance?

I don't think someone being attracted to me inherently makes them bisexual, either, because I think they see me and they see a stylish feminine bombshell and they don't know what kind of fucked up genitalia I have (because I'm intersex) nor do they know I consider myself a man in the most nonbinary of ways. I am not a man in the terms of western gender, I consider myself like a reverse femminiello, which is a cultural gender home to Naples, Italy (yes, even the west has cultural genders!!). But how are my suitors to possibly know this? I've dated men in a gay way and I've dated women in a gay way and frankly it has so hardly been about their genders it has been more about their performance. I am GNC and I prefer GNC people. I don't experience attraction to people who perform gender in a way that I... well, am not attracted to! Let's call it cis manhood and cis womanhood for now. I am absolutely t4t, and on top of that I would absolutely say I'm nonbinary4nonbinary. Complex gender for complex gender. When I have these experiences it's in a gay way no matter what. If a lesbian falls in love with me because they like the way my heels accentuate my legs, the motions of my hands, the way my hair falls upon my shoulders, my lips and smile, and contrast with the assertive, dominant, masculine-parodying performance of femininity, who am I to tell them that they are not fundamentally experiencing lesbian attraction? And if a gay person sees me and likes the way my eyes look in the dim light, the way I power-stance, the curves of my body, the shape of my hips, the earrings I wear and the lipstick I adorn myself with, who am I to tell them they are not experiencing gay attraction? After all, it is gay when they're with me. We spend so much time speaking empty words about how to support gnc trans people in gay communities but bring none of the actual considerations into play when we talk about models of sexuality. Isn't it time that changed?

[shimmershae]

"I'm dying."  (a Walking Dead One Shot, Daryl + Sophia, Caryl).

He's been told It's a rite of passage for every girl, but there's nothing in the step-daddy handbook to prepare Daryl for this. 

��I don't even know with this, hahaha.  Just read it.  Hopefully, you'll find it sweet and not off-putting. 

 With appearances by Lori and Tara because I love them both. 

      Carol’s out of town when it happens—some sort of mandatory conference for work.

  They’ve been making it work, him and ‘Phia.  Kid’s been awful quiet, though.  Softer and more careful than usual, but Daryl ain’t paid that much mind because they’re still new at this.  This step-daddy/step-daughter thing.  Still finding their way, and he don’t want to upset any of the hard-earned progress they’ve made so he gives her space.  Tries not to hover.  And they’re fine.  They really are.  Neither one of them’s been known to talk somebody’s ear off in the first place so he ain’t too bothered by the lack of chatter, is comfortable with it actually.  He figures if she needs something, she’ll come to him, and he ain’t wrong because that’s exactly what she does. 

  Two o’clock in the morning and Sophia knocks at the bedroom door, peeks inside. 

  The mutt grumbles tiredly from Carol’s side of the bed, thumps his tail against the mattress in sleepy greeting, and Daryl’s sitting up in an instant, fumbling for the lamp’s chain to turn on the light.  “’Phia?  Somethin’ wrong?” 

  She’s all big, shiny hazel eyes and skinny arms and legs.  Sun-kissed freckles and wobbling lips as she takes one step, then two into the bedroom, the hem of her pajama shirt twisted between her fists and her naked toes digging into the plush carpet they still haven’t gotten around to ripping up. 

  She looks six years old instead of twelve, and Daryl feels his heart give a funny tug, swallows the worried ache creeping up his throat as he throws the blankets from his legs and shifts until his feet are first touching the floor then carrying him to her.  “’Phia,” he tries again.  “You alright?”  He knows he ain’t gonna like her answer soon as that chin of hers finally crumples and the first tear falls. 

  “No,” Sophia whispers.

  “No?”  She shakes her head, the waterworks starting in earnest, and fear seizes his heart. 

  “I’m dying.” 

     ~*~

    He ain’t good at comforting little girls.  Little kids at all.  Never knew what it felt like being on the receiving end as a kid himself so he never had no example.  But he’s good at listening, always been good at doing that, and he finally gets it out of her.  The truth of it all in tears and gulping breaths.  Witnesses just what’s upset her so much for himself when she leads him to her bedroom and points. 

  Her purple comforter is thrown to the floor, her matching sheets a bloody mess. 

  His cheeks burn bright as he swallows hard.  ‘Phia’s too, he’s sure.  He just nods his head and steps over the threshold into territory he’s never braved before, both literally and otherwise, and reassures her, best as he can.  “S’alright.  Gonna be alright.  Gonna take care of it.” 

 ~*~

  It don’t take long to strip the bed, not near as long as it takes him to figure out the fickle old Maytag anyway, what with the cat watching him in silent judgment and ‘Phia herself a quiet little shadow in the doorway.

  She’s chewing on those lips again, all fretful like. 

  Damn if he knows what to do to wipe that fearful look off her face.  It’s not like he’s ever had to deal with this before, never even considered it.  But he closes the lid to the washing machine and turns toward her, his blue eyes squinting at a point somewhere over her right shoulder while he scratches absently at the scruff that’s grown on his chin in his wife’s absence.  “You thirsty?” 

    ~*~

    He’s settles her at the kitchen table with a mug full of warm milk and escapes to the safety of his and Carol’s bedroom to think but his mind goes in circles because it ain’t like he’s got any experience with this shit.  Carol’s the only woman ever gave him a second look.  Before her, well.  It’s not like glossy pictures in magazines and the women in Merle’s stories count for much.  Times like this, he wishes he watched more tv, but there’s nothing to be done for it now, and he wants to call his wife.  Fuck does he want to, but she’d sounded tired when they talked before supper, sounded tired even before she left two days ago, and he ain’t gonna bother her when he’s capable of taking care of things himself.  Uncertain but perfectly capable.

  ~*~

    Holed up in the bathroom, he calls Lori instead.  Figures at 3:39 in the morning, she’ll be up with Judith anyway, and she is. 

  “Daryl?  Hey.” 

  She sounds stressed but fully awake and it don’t take him long to figure out why.  Asskicker’s over at the Grimes’ house giving an operatic performance, and he don’t waste Lori’s time, isn’t delicate at all about the news he blurts out.  “Kid’s bleedin’ all over the fuckin’ place.” 

  “Sophia?  Daryl, what happened?  Did you call 9-1-1?  Hang up with me and call—”

  He’s quick to put an end to her frantic rambling.  “She ain’t hurt.  Least I don’t think she is.  S’just…there’s blood everywhere.  All over her bed and all over…shit,” he mutters, spying Sophia’s favorite pair of pajama pants shoved in the trash can beside the toilet.  “All over her clothes.” 

  “Oh.  Oh.  She started.  Carol thought she still had some time.” 

  Lori’s voice softens into knowing, losing that hard, worried edge of a moment before, and for some reason, that makes him more agitated.  “Started what?  Crying, yeah.  Wants her mama.” 

  “And you called me?  Woke me up?” 

   He can hear the smile on the woman’s face and it rankles at him, but he knows she’s only teasing.  Has learned her ways well enough by now not to take offense.  Still.  “Better you than her,” he grumps.  “’Sides,” he points out to her when Judith lets out another wail that makes him feel sorry for Lori’s entire household, “ain’t nobody over there gettin’ any sleep anyway.”

  She makes a sound on the other side that sounds like a cross between a sigh and an exhausted yawn.  “You’ve got a point.” 

  “Yeah, yeah.  Look.  Ain’t got all day.  Left the kid all by her lonesome in the kitchen and Jude sounds like she’s fresh outta patience.  Can we hurry this up a bit?  You tell me how to help her?  Can’t stand seein’ her cry.” 

  “She’s right, you know.  You really are a teddy bear at heart.”

  “Woman,” Daryl growls. 

  “Fine.  Here’s what you’re going to need.” 

  ~*~

    He finds a full box of tampons beneath the bathroom sink but none of the pads that Lori had insisted would be easier for Sophia to use as a complete novice, and fuck if he don’t feel like he’s stuck in some special kind of hell going into that kitchen and telling the kid to put on her jacket while he grabs his truck keys. 

  The parking lot at the 24-hour drug store is almost deserted. 

  ‘Phia’s still nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, though, when he holds the door open for her.  She blushes the same pretty pink as her mama and tugs that jacket tight around her narrow shoulders, tucks her chin close to her chest and keeps her eyes down as they wander the aisles.

  When they reach the feminine hygiene display, Daryl almost loses what’s left of his shit because there’s row upon row.  All kinds of colors, shapes, and sizes.  Different absorbencies and he’s a fish out of water.  Can’t even catch his damn breath for close to a minute and it ain’t like ‘Phia’s much better.  The kid’s just as overwhelmed as him and her chin starts that little tremble again.  A return of the waterworks seems imminent, but she powers through.  Remains stoic and silent and Daryl feels no small measure of pride fill him.  “Hey,” he says softly.  Gets her attention.  “S’gonna be alright.  We’ll figure things out.” 

  ~*~

    In the end, he grabs one of each kind in the hopes of getting them out of there because they’re both dead on their feet.  Staggering around like a couple of zombies. 

  The girl working the graveyard shift ain’t much more than a kid, college age at most.  Has her hair pulled back in stubby pigtails and earbuds in her ears, and she’s bobbing her head to some song only she can hear.  One look at Daryl’s armload and she rips those earbuds clean out, crosses her arms across her Motormouth Mabel tee shirt and frowns.  “Dude, no.  Just…no.”

  She’s walking around the counter before Daryl’s brain has even caught up enough for him to spit out a response.  Bending to Sophia’s eye level and having an animated albeit one-sided conversation that ends in her taking the kid’s hand and leading her back down the aisle of purgatory.  “The hell,” he swears, dumping the various packages of feminine napkins—he’ll never understand that one, don’t know if he even cares to—on the unmoving conveyor belt and taking a single, tired step after them both before she turns and stops him in his tracks. 

  “Chill.  Okay, Dad?  We’ll be right back.  Keep an eye out, make sure nobody steals anything while I’m gone.  And I do mean nobody.”   

   ~*~

  They’re not right back but it hardly matters to him in the end because when they do come back, ‘Phia’s laughing in that sweet and shy way of hers, and the girl?  Well, she’s wearing a grin so big and bright, he can’t find it in himself to be mad.  Not even when she plunks two exorbitantly overpriced pints of rocky road ice cream down on the counter with the rest of her hand chosen items and gleefully tells him she’s giving him a steal.  Despite the fact he’s really paying out of the nose. 

  “Remember what I said, Sophia,” she says as she rings them up.  “It’s a rite of passage.  Milk it.  Twist dear old dad tighter around your finger.”

  He’s about to protest, sure Sophia has her own objections, but he’s floored by her simple response.  Her ready nod as she loops her small arm around his own and leans heavily, sleepily against his side.  That flicker of pride he’d felt earlier returns, along with a tsunami of unexpected affection, and his hands shake as he opens his wallet and counts out the necessary bills for payment, places them in the girl’s upturned hand.  “Thanks.” 

  “Tara,” she chirps. 

  “Tara,” Daryl tries it on for size.  “Thanks,” he repeats. 

  She beams.  “Anytime, Dude.  Better get going before those,” she nods at the pints of bagged ice cream, “turn into milkshakes.  See you around, Sophia.  Don’t forget.  Any questions you still have, ask your mom, okay?” 

  “I will,” Sophia vows softly.  “Bye, Tara.” 

    ~*~

    Twilight’s slowly fading away into early morning when he pulls into their driveway, the early risers in the neighborhood are just starting their day.  Shadows moving behind drawn curtains while she fights to stay awake and so does he.  Silence settles in after he kills the truck’s engine, and he grips the leather steering wheel, maps out each crack with the rough pads of his fingers while he marvels over what happened back at that drug store.  “She called me your dad.  Understand if you don’t want…” 

  Sophia cuts him off before he can go any further.  “I do.  You are.” 

  He blows out a shaky breath.  Smiles.  “’right then.  Good.” 

  “Good.” 

  ~*~

  He stations her on the sofa with a veritable mountain of pillows at her back, the remote, and a pile of blankets at her disposal.  “Need anything just holler.”

  “Stay?” she pleads, lifting the edge of one of her blankets. 

  “Ain’t goin’ nowhere ‘less you want me to,” he promises.   

  ~*~

  Carol comes home early to find them cuddled together on the couch sound asleep, the dog at Daryl’s feet and the cat curled across Sophia’s short legs, and it’s such a sweet sight, she immediately takes out her phone and snaps a picture.

      Two weeks later, that grainy image is joined by another one on the refrigerator.  That box of unopened tampons beneath the sink stays unopened for quite some time. 

  Oh, give or take nine months or so. 

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The Feminine State

          Macbeth, a play about a Scottish king whose exceptionally short rule is bookended by acts of murder and violence, hardly seems auspicious in commemorating the ascent of King James to the English throne. Yet for all its unsettling implications about Scottish monarchs, Macbeth succeeds in questioning the role of the feminine in the body politic, effectively unseating the deceased Queen Elizabeth in order to make way for a new male lineage. Throughout the play, feminine power is portrayed as a chaotic and contradictory force that cannot be defined, only feared. Lady Macbeth’s embodiment of paradoxical womanhood serves to affirm King James’ right to the crown by dismissing the validity of female rule, and therefore the rule of his predecessor.

          Macbeth’s susceptibility to his wife’s suggestion is somehow less heinous than Lady Macbeth’s ability to persuade her husband into committing regicide, with the former seen as a characteristic of human weakness and the latter as evidence of feminine treachery. While Macbeth himself contemplated killing Duncan after seeing the witches’ first prophecy come true (albeit with hesitation and fear), the play often emphasizes Lady Macbeth’s murderous intentions more than her husband’s actual acts of violence. Upon reading Macbeth’s letter, Lady Macbeth immediately laments that he “wouldst be great, / Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it.”[1] Lady Macbeth senses the necessity of murder in bringing the witches’ prophecy to fruition, even if her husband is less than eager to admit it. The audience is meant to feel that Macbeth perhaps would not have killed Duncan if left to his own devices, and was only driven to murder by his wife’s repeated insistence. Yet when the time comes to perform the act itself, Lady Macbeth is unable to deliver the final blow, noting that if the sleeping king had “not resembled / [Her] father as he slept, [she] had done’t.”[2] For all her plotting, the Lady never directly engages in the bloodshed directly—a woman is nefarious enough to have men do her bidding, yet too delicate to perform the act herself. Rather than exonerating Lady Macbeth, this distance condemns her all the more, positioning her as an accessory to a crime not otherwise committed. This paradox of malicious womanhood is seen in the witches and witch-like figures within the play who alter the course of events from afar.

          Lady Macbeth, though never explicitly described as such, takes on the role and characteristics of a witch through her acts of monologuing and manipulation. Just as the three Weird Sisters never act directly upon Macbeth and only interfere in his affairs by imparting knowledge upon him, Lady Macbeth enacts change upon her husband through the power of words alone. Wishing to “chastise with the valour of [her] tongue / All that impedes [Macbeth] from the golden round,”[3] the Lady remains physically removed from most of the play’s violence while orchestrating her husband’s actions through mere language. Language was deemed a dangerous weapon in the hands (or mouth) of a woman, and women themselves potential tools of devilish forces. However, more than simply replicating the rhetoric of witchcraft with intense scolding, Lady Macbeth arguably performs (or at least attempts) actual witchcraft when she invokes the power of “you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts.”[4] Even though such a ritual was directed only at her own self and not explicitly towards a third party, Lady Macbeth’s witchery posed a threat to male dominance simply by exhibiting a uniquely female power. This “performative utterance” would have itself been considered an act of witchcraft by Jacobean standards, as “the very act of summoning demonic powers transforms her into the witch” classified by the Witchcraft Statute of 1604.[5] Her willingness to dabble in the dark arts is evidence enough, with the effectiveness of said arts mattering less than her intent to unlock its promises. Lady Macbeth’s proximity to witchcraft calls into question whether the labels of noblewoman and witch could overlap, which in turn undermines faith in the integrity of a female ruler while simultaneously threatening the hierarchy of male power.

          The close relationship between witchcraft and the pathologized female condition was a tool used to condemn both the feminine body corporeal and body politic. Lady Macbeth’s heed to “Make thick [her] blood” to “Stop up th’access and passage to remorse”[6] is consistent with humorism, in which “her blood take[s] on the grossness and thickness characteristic of melancholy,” a state which would theoretically “impede and nullify the operations of conscience.”[7] However, in “abjur[ing] her womanhood to be impregnated with cruelty,” Lady Macbeth encounters a cessation of her menstrual flow, which brings “further results which she has not considered.”[8] For her blood to thicken “That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake [her] fell purpose,”[9] Lady Macbeth would induce a state of amenorrhea, and “Shakespeare attributed to her those very symptoms that… contemporary medical books claim will occur when a woman’s natural visitings cease.”[10] Though we have since shifted from humorism to modern science, both heuristics offer biological explanations of witchcraft. During the Jacobean period, witchcraft was attributed to melancholic “imaginative disorders” in which women “thinking to ride the air… were more likely having vivid hallucinations while lying in their beds.”[11] Today, we conceptualize amenorrhea as an explanation for the three witches’ beards, which were a symptom of hormonal defeminization and the “consequences of catamenial retention and stoppage,”[12] both defeminizing the witches and retroactively diagnosing them with an inherently feminine syndrome. In either instance, women’s bodies are levied against themselves as accusations of physical deficiencies (if not of moral failings) in order to uphold male structures of rule. Throughout history the female body has been sorted into “both natural and supernatural categories [which] promised to reveal the hidden truth of femininity, its latent potential for disorder and deception.”[13] Whether witches, melancholics, or amenorrhiacs, women who exist beyond the bounds of acceptability are made sites of bodily scrutiny. They are denounced as abnormal, yet this abnormality is an explanation for the universal distrust of the feminine.

          Even a woman stripped of female qualities upholds the paradoxical and threatening nature of womanhood. Lady Macbeth, in trading her ability to bear children for the resolve to become queen, both secures and condemns the Macbeth royal lineage. While she is ambitious enough to seek the crown by any means necessary (even at the cost of her own fertility), Lady Macbeth is too selfish and short-sighted to ensure that her husband will have heirs. Sripped of the essentialist qualities that define a woman, the unsexed Lady Macbeth still embodies a distinctly female failure in which she “appeals to the maternal to deny the patrilineal… readily kill[ing] Macbeth’s progeny to secure her husband’s succession.”[14] Much like Queen Elizabeth, whose desire to remain in power led to her refusal of marriage (and therefore lack of children to inherit the throne), Lady Macbeth shuns her duty as a mother in the pursuit of ambition. The failure to bear children is still a markedly feminine deficit, a mistake which only a woman could make. The Lady Macbeths of the world always remain marked by their femininity, whether in its presence or absence; even the need to distance oneself from womanhood remains a uniquely feminine predicament. Men remain “unsexed” simply by virtue of existing as the default category, whereas a queen who must continually assert that she has “the heart and stomach of a king”[15] paradoxically ensures that she will forever be measured in relation to her femaleness. Lady Macbeth embodies the fears surrounding female rule, in which ‘properly’ feminine women are precluded from positions of power (and are instead relegated to motherhood) while women who deviate from expectations of gender represent a specific failing of women as rulers.

          Although Macbeth is a play populated by violence, Lady Macbeth is often thought of as one of its most ruthless characters, despite committing no direct acts of violence, save for her own likely suicide. Her language and behavior alone create a character who is frightening simply for being a complicated woman—so complicated that womanhood itself is put on trial. A woman could be many conflicting things at the same time, but none of these things were favorable. By demonizing Lady Macbeth and questioning the role of women in the political sphere, Macbeth helped legitimize King James on the English throne, firmly categorizing the play as Jacobean in both era and purpose.

[1] Macbeth, I.5.17-19.

[2] Macbeth, II.2.13-14.

[3] Macbeth, I.5.26-27.

[4] Macbeth, I.5.39-40.

[5] Levin, Joanna. “Lady MacBeth and the Daemonologie of Hysteria.” ELH, vol. 69, no. 1, 2002, p 39.

[6] Macbeth, 1.5.42-43.

[7] Kocher, Paul H. “Lady Macbeth and the Doctor.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, 1954, p 346.

[8] La Belle, Jenijoy. “‘A Strange Infirmity’: Lady Macbeth's Amenorrhea.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3, 1980, p. 383.

[9] Macbeth, 1.5.44-45.

[10] La Belle, p. 383.

[11] Roychoudhury, Suparna. “Melancholy, Ecstasy, Phantasma: The Pathologies of Macbeth.” Modern Philology, vol. 111, no. 2, 2013, pp. 208, 213.

[12] La Belle, p. 384.

[13] Levin, p. 29.

[14] Chamberlain, Stephanie. “Fantasizing Infanticide: Lady Macbeth and the Murdering Mother in Early Modern England.” College Literature, vol. 32, no. 3, 2005, p. 82.

[15] Elizabeth I. “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury.”

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Rock Music as a Discourse Community

Introduction

Well-known for his genre analysis, John Malcolm Swales puts forward the concept of discourse community, which refers to a group of people who share the same objectives and interests and utilize same ways to communicate in order to pursue and explore a common goal. In my paper, I am going to focus on the rock music discourse community and explain the importance and value to the public and the society.

Before illustrating how I undertake a survey on such a community, I have to claim several features that form a band discourse community, according to Swales’s definition of discourse community(Swales, 1990). First, as rock music players, we should have a common purpose which is to perform good rock music to the audience. The group members are supposed to keep in touch with each other through online messages so that we can get a better understanding of rock and roll and come up with more innovative ways to perform it. In addition to that, we should have rehearsals on a regular basis so as to be experienced and skillful, which may include various music forms. During the process, the members may use their specific lexis like power chord and harmonic minor scales. All of these above can maturely form a rock music discourse community.

 Method

In this research paper, I will use both primary and secondary research to analyze the discourse community of rock music. The primary research I have done is the interview with a music major sophomore at UC Davis. Lydia, is a music major student at UC Davis and have been studied music here for almost two years. Therefore, I choose to have a personal interview with Lydia. And the most impressive answer is her different genre of rock music. She told me that she did not much about rock music before she attends performance in live house. She saw a lot of famous bands who played rock songs in live house. However, although there were several rock bands there, these bands express different emotions and attitudes throughout their music. From then on, she have had access to blues rock and hard rock, which are also prevalent nowadays in America. When she lived in the environment of American rock music, she knew more famous and representative rock bands, such as ACDC and Scorpion.

I also conduct a secondary research from the library and online resources. On Youtube particularly, I found a video that use different piano playing to show the difference between “Composition” and “Improvisation.” In his video, he insisted improvisation is one of the highest and most demanding forms of music composition. Many people try to learn how to improvise by studying scales, modes, licks and other patterns. However, these mechanical patterns are not only intellectually and musically dishonest, but will also end up frustrating those of you who are truly talented, because they will not teach you how to improvise.

 Genre of communication

1. Internal communication

As UC Davis students, we have a lot of ways to communicate music with each other. Indeed, you do not really need to be a music major to participate into such a community. The first and easiest approach to joining the rock music discourse community is to attend music courses at UC Davis. Music classes are open to all UC Davis students. In these music courses, we have chances to know more about music theory, like how chords and scales build melodies. In this way, we are able to understand what rock music are, how far rock music can go, and how to analyze and write rock music on our own.

Moreover, UC Davis is not a party school, but it can be an event school. Every time we saw big events that our university held, we can find rock bands performing pleasant and exciting rock music at Quad or Pavilion. Even though we cannot join them and play rock on the stages, we can talk to them about rock music they played and the rock bands they favor. You can provide your suggestions to their performance, and you can talk about what you do not understand from their music. And I believe they are willing to explain them to you and they can progress by the advice you give. Subtly, you are making more friends and better get into such a community. Finally, you will get to know more and more interesting pieces of rock music and you will find the one you like the most.

 2. External communication

When people talk about rock music, they will certainly refer to the term composition”. However, people sometimes also hear the term “improvisation” and they may be confused by the difference between these two terms. Therefore, it’s important to distinguish between them before talking about the composition of rock music in the history. In the article “Composition versus Improvisation?”(Larson, 2005), clearly distinguish the difference between these two terms. “Composition is traditionally regarded as a process, in which a composer, with pen and paper, outside of ‘real time,’ uses revision and hard work to eliminate or avoid mistakes.” However, “Improvisation is traditionally regarded as a process in which performers, with their voices or instruments, in ‘real time,’ use luck or skill to respond to or incorporate mistakes.” Slightly different from his view, I believe improvisers are intended to integrate mistakes into their music so that their melody may be novel and unique to the audience.

As to rock music specifically, people may discuss those masterpiece in the history that contributed to the controversial issues in the society at that time. Therefore, rock music composition in the history did not merely share negative meanings, which was relevant to sexes and drugs in the past, but also represents the characteristics of the period of time, just as how Michael Joseph Jackson utilized his blues pop and dance to undertake charity and change the world. In the 1960s, In the article “Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music(Auslander, 2006)”, Auslander pointed out although there were many women in rock by the late 1960s, most performed only as singers, a traditionally feminine position in popular music. Some of them tried to make themselves outstanding in rock music, but none of them achieved more than regional success. However, with the growth of rock music power, in 1971, Fanny became the first all-female band to reach the Hot 100's top 40 and started to publish their first album.

In rock music history, rock music is also utilized as a weapon against the racism around 1960s and 1970s. In the journal “The year rock found the power to unite,”(Manzoor, 2008), the race relations in Britain was in huge crisis and the government could hardly take control of the situation. Meanwhile, tons of rock music players gathered at Victoria Park in London to attend the “Rock Against Racism”, the first RAR event in the world. This big event caught the attention from people at that time and encourage people to fight for fairness between races. Since then, there is an increasing number of RAR incidents and the RAR events are still going on nowadays.

Conclusion

Rock music as a discourse community has influenced our life all the way through history. It propels the women rights and prevents the racism among people. It indeed provided people huge progress in thoughts. Even nowadays, rock music are subtly changing our attitudes towards life. A hopeful piece of rock music may encourage you to work hard for a whole day. To join the community, you do not need to be an expert, you just need to have a heart of loving rock and roll. Therefore, participating into such a discourse community is a choice that we should consider.

 References

1.      Swales, J. (1990). The Concept of Discourse Community. In J. Swales, Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (pp. 466-473). Boston: Cambridge University Press.

2.      Larson, S.(2005). Composition versus Improvisation? Journal of music Theory

3.      Auslander, P.(2006). Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (pp. 197). University of Michigan Press.

4.      Manzoor, S.(2008). The year rock found the power to unite. The guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/20/popandrock.race

5.      Personal Interview with Lydia. February 26th, 2018.

Appendix

1.      What kind of music do you usually listen to?

2.      What’s your opinion of rock music? Do you like it?

3.      Can you refer to several classical pieces of rock music or famous rock                 bands in the history? How do you know them?

4.      What topics do people usually talk about when they refer to rock music?

5.      What do you think the common goals of rock music players can be?

6.      Do you know some well-known websites or social media that rock music             players always use?

7.      How do you usually communicate with your peers in the language of rock             music? What are the difference of improvisation and composition in rock             music?

8.      Do you think rock music can influence our daily life? Positively or                         negatively?

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19 Man Cave Ideas to Avoid

19 Man Cave Ideas to Avoid

Now that you know everything you want to keep in your man cave, let’s check out things you want to keep out. Every man has their own preferences, but if you put one of these in your cave, then prepare yourself to hear your friends call it a ‘she-shed.’ Vanity mirrors, curvy furniture, zany craft decorations, and lacy curtains top the list of things to keep out of your cave. However, some things—like family photos—aren’t quite as obvious. These 19 man cave ideas to avoid serve as a warning to men everywhere! Keep reading for a list of things to keep out of your man cave and the reason you need to keep them out!

Vanity Mirrors

Large vanity mirrors highlight the arrogance of all who use them on a daily basis. Normal mirrors function just fine for reasonable people, so why take up a lot of space in your cave just to put in a mirror? Replacing a wall with a mirror doesn’t count—and actually adds a lot of space to the room! Plus, mirrors look great in garage or bar settings. A bathroom area also needs a mirror, at least for when you shave! When you see the fancy plastic, metal, or wooden border of a large mirror, that’s where you need to draw the line.

More Than Four Colors

A room usually uses two major colors and one minor color. In example, the typical home uses white or eggshell-colored paint on their walls and any color carpet to complement it. What you put in the home matches those colors. The same applies in a man cave. If you want your room to look coherent, then carefully limit the amount of colors you put in your main fixtures. Obviously decorations and art will bring you over the four color limit, but your permanent furniture should fit within the limitations. Beyond your first three colors, a fourth lets you squeeze in an odd design here and there, so long as it only colors small buttons or portions of the furniture.

Anything Abstract

Art looks great—especially paintings! Use art, posters, and unique designs to complement the theme of your man cave and populate the wall. Little statues or figurines also help the room feel cozy. However, not any art works for a man cave. Abstract art and figures use abnormal shapes, materials, colors, and subject material to draw all attention towards them. Standing in a museum, they look great. But standing in a man cave? Not so much. It takes some serious work to pull off an abstract design in a man cave, especially since the normally outlandish colors of abstract statues clashes with the normal color schemes of man caves. Avoid using these figures, if possible! For art that works great in man caves, read this page.

Cushions Galore

Women put cushions in their room to fill up space with something to look at. Little sayings like ‘home is where the heart is’ make them good conversation points and they knit the room together. However, they serve no other function and clutter up a conventional man cave. Anyone who uses your couch throws them on the ground anyways. If you need something to decorate unused chairs or couches, stick with practical things like body pillows, back pillows, or bean bags. That way, they actually serve a purpose and look like they fit the room at the same time.

Flowery Wallpaper

Your wall needs as many things as possible to keep the walls covered. Unless you want to show off some cool woodwork or brick patterns, any empty space becomes wasted. With that in mind, why would wallpaper matter? You still see the wall paper behind the decorations and furniture—especially furniture like drawers or fridges that may need a little more wall space than usual. If you choose wallpaper over paint or textured walls, then pick something basic, modern, or something to go with your theme. Please skip the flowers.

Family Photos

Pictures of your dear family and friends serve as immortal reminders of a good moment in our life. I would never downplay their importance or significance. However, a man cave is called a man cave for a reason. The mantuary exists to keep a single man separate from the rest of the world, and sometimes, that means keeping out family portraits. To incorporate your family into the cave, ask them personally how they would like to change your man cave wall decor. This provides the best way to bond with your family while keeping your space yours. Very rarely will they ask for photos of themselves in there. I give a lot more advice on man cave decor here.

Curly Furniture

Curvy objects represent femininity. I don’t care of you like hour glasses, pears, apples, or any other body shape—everyone knows that curves belong to women! Similarly, curves in architecture and design represent female characteristics. For a more manly aesthetic, stick to sharper corners on your furniture and avoid the curved metal flourishes that plague a lot of metal furniture. Large curves, such as a curved sofa that points towards the center of the room, make sense to put in a man cave. For anything else, leave it out!

Lacy Curtains

Anything that resembles a doily, lace, or ribbon belongs in a nursery, not in a man cave. Curtains perform worse than blinds aesthetically speaking, at least where mantuaries are concerned. I contemplated banning curtains outright, but some curtains actually manage to provide utility to mancaves. Blackout curtains keep out light and make projection-based entertainment systems easier to see. On top of that, some colored curtains fit right in with man cave themes, if you pick a simple design. Ultimately, stay away from anything translucent or lacy, and your curtains should look fine.

Persian Rugs

Rugs help bring together a room without taking away space. A room without a rug or other floor decoration looks empty and lacking, so obviously you need to consider rugs. However, keep Persian rugs out of your consideration. Their beautiful flowers, vines, and ornaments look great in a living room and sometimes in the lobby of a building…but not in a man cave. With so many other options for your man space, try to broaden your horizons and find something that fits better! Cow hides work great with rustic man caves, while custom galaxy designs suit Star Wars themed caves. For sports lovers, plenty of licensed carpets exist to fill the empty space.

Creamers, Sugar, or Drink Syrup

Okay, drinks taste great with added flavors. I’m not going to go on a rant about how men should drink bitter beer or black coffee or anything like that, but there is a limit to the amount of sweeteners a man cave should house. If you dislike bitter flavors in your drinks, go ahead and create mixes using fresh fruit or grab some pre-mixed drinks instead. For better tasting coffee, seek out a better brand than whatever you currently drink. I promise something out there matches your palate!

Anything ‘Chic’

This one’s a no-brainer. Anything marketed towards women or girls probably looks out of place in a man cave. On top of that, anything labeled specifically as a girly product probably has a gender neutral or even masculine counterpart. A chic object usually contains a lot of contrasting colors, curves, and extra textures that clash with the idea of a modern man cave. I realize none of you go looking for chic things when you plan your man cave, but if you feel yourself tempted by something in Ross or Hobby Lobby…resist!

Crystals, Sequins, or Glitter

Despite the phrase, not everything that glitters is gold. Flashy objects like crystals, jewels, glass chandeliers, and so on might look pretty in the light, but they hardly stand out as manly. The only things that should glisten in your cave are metal objects and maybe the fish in an aquarium. Glitter just gets everywhere, so skip that as well.

Craft Supplies…in Plain View

Look, some men like crafting. I get that. Even I own a collection of colorful markers that helps me distinguish things when I cut wood. However, putting them up on a wall for everyone to see, along with string, lace, and scissors to match…hardly gives the impression of a man cave. When you need to organize your tools in your man cave, go to home depot and find yourself a tool chest or tool shelves. Shelves in particular keep things organized.

String Lights

Yeah…no. String lights have their time and place, but it’s not in a man cave. For frat rooms, work parties, children sleepovers, baby rooms, and Christmas spectacles, string lights work spectacularly. But for a man cave? Stick to more conventional lighting that goes with your theme. The string part of the string lights looks cheap and gaudy, so if you want a similar effect, install permanent lights spaced evenly throughout the wall. Plus, putting in your own lighting allows you to easily fit the theme of your man cave!

Fabric on the Wall

I don’t necessarily mean curtains. We already covered those. Rather, some women absolutely love to use sheets as decorations for the ceiling or walls. What might look great for a classy living room or princess-style bedroom has no place in a man cave. If you want different textures for the wall or ceiling beyond what art can offer you, then use bricks, wood panels, textured paint, or wallpaper to pull off the effect.

Too Many Windows

The cave is called a cave for a reason. It isn’t a greenhouse or atrium. It serves as a secluded place meant for you to spend some alone time. Just like a regular cave, entrances and exits are sparse. Open windows help lift the mood and air out the cave, but they also break down the sense of a special space. Instead of feeling like a mantuary, it just feels like an open room. Stick to a normal amount of windows for your wall space and maybe one or two skylights, if possible. Nothing too dramatic, but also nothing too minimal.

Ban on Signs or Posters

Some ladies like to keep their she caves minimal. Instead of using posters or art, they use zany paint jobs, wall-mounted dishes, or fabric to decorate the walls. Sometimes they even convert walls into crafting stations! However—and this goes for people of both sexes, to be honest—forgoing signs takes away a lot of potential from your cave. Signs help distinguish your man cave from other space, something critical for a man cave. For more reasons on why you need signs, check the whole man cave signs info and recommendations page.

Pergolas

This mainly goes towards people with shed man caves. In case you don’t know what a pergola is, it provides the framework for vines and flowers to create a tunnel of leaves. Gardens look great and all, but pergolas take it a little far. Use vertical garden techniques or custom landscaping to achieve a similar effect without making the entrance to your man cave look like a dream wedding venue. Plus, custom watering systems help your plants grow and keep out pests. For more man cave shed ideas, browse my dedicated page on the matter.

Straw Anything

Look, I don’t care if your man cave is supposed to look rustic. Straw anything belongs in a barn, not in a man cave. Wooden chairs work better than straw chairs, cow skins work better than straw rugs, and anything works better than straw decorations! If you built your man shed with a thatch roof, then do yourself a favor and replace it with any other type of roofing. And if your wife gives you one of those rustic straw poofs? Just throw it outside where it belongs, for the love of all things holy!

At the end of the day, your man cave reflects your inner self. Sometimes, that means squeezing in a pergola at the entrance of your man shed or throwing in that weird abstract figure your great aunt sent you just to give it a place. However, if you want to achieve the idea of a modern man cave, this list helps you achieve that by telling you where you can go wrong. I also wrote a large list of things you do want to add in, so check that list to round out your man cave plans! Whether you listen to this advice or not, always do what you think is right for your man cave. After all, that space belongs to you and you alone!

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