This takeaway had to do with doing nice things for people. No I would always do what I can to help people out. From a distance when they can’t see me. I am not a person who likes people walking up to me, especially in this day an age. Everyone has motives and it is to difficult to tell who is safe and who is not. Men hurt women just because we are women. Women are already kidnapped, beaten and raped so why would I put myself in the position to get snatched because I tried to be nice and help out another women or a child. They do set traps and women have no problem in snatching another woman or children and selling them into sex trafficking.
I would be better off giving donations, paying for people’s food behind me in drive through or sending gift cards to people from small businesses so [people can get what they need. It is real sketchy to be a helpful person, plus with this pandemic, no one wants anyone near them.
Assignment Takeaway 4
In this takeaway from assignment 4, (I skipped 3), I learned a lot about myself as a consumer. I am one that shops by attractiveness first and then credibility. Which I should be shopping by how I view the company and if the company is worth it.
Over the past year I have actually made a lot of progress in not buying that way. Granted certain ads still get me, like I will by Scott or Charmin toilet tissue over Cottonelle, or Horizon Organic milk over the store brand. But who doesn’t right! I take into consideration the brand, the CEO and founder and how they are. I don’t eat Chic-fil-a as I am a queer woman and they donate millions to anti-LBGTQ+ and I would be a fool to spend money at a place that hates me existence.
Now the above photo is from a black female owned skincare company that I have been researching for a few weeks. She is one of the many smaller businesses I choose to support. I have read her reviews, read her ingredients (100% natural and handmade), and I have even been on her personal IG account. I am grateful to say that doing my research has removed me from just buying based on familiarity and the attractiveness on brands. Even being credible, like from Lancome (which I have used their products and worked for them), I still choose to support smaller businesses that cater more to my lifestyle and my morals. It has been more important to me then ever to buy morally.
Assignment Takeaway 2
I realized that with all the bullcrap, and beautiful moments in my life. it all brought me to where I am now. I have survived some very dark days, and made it to brighter ones. I have lost more than I ever thought and was rewarded with a path that keeps enriching me. I really know that things are going to get better, and with all the changes going on in the world, both personal and humanity rise, things can only get better.
Assignment Takeaway 1
My takeaway from this assignment was an eye opener. I can definitely see how people develop biases and use it to color their outlook on life. How these heuristics guide us through our daily lives and activities, especially the personal one. I am guilty of all of those. It is amazing how we believe that we are not influenced by others, when actually we are. From how we perceive and judge others, looking for bargains and letting past traumas affect current situations.
An example is being in an abusive relationship (availability heuristic). When a person has been in an abuse relationship-whether mental, physical, emotional and/or verbal-the person will always have those defenses in their mind. If during an argument the other person does something physically or verbally, it can trigger a memory, the information of a similar situation and put you in the same mind frame. In thinking that is the only outcome for this situation. This has happened to me and over the years I have, and it took me a while to divorce the idea from my psyche. For me to understand that there are more situations that can stem from these outbursts. My mind made them bigger than they were, and what I thought where arguments, where nothing more than disagreements that ended in good verbal communication.