Cynthia Enloe Response

Cynthia Enloe was interesting both during her in class discussion as well as her follow up lecture later that evening. As we went around the room during the in class discussion, I really liked how she took a general interest in all of our topics and offered her insights or opinions as well. She was very talkative and outgoing which made the discussion much more lively. 

In terms of her evening lecture, I enjoyed it as well. The content of her lecture definitely surprised me because the title, "How Can You Tell If A War Is 'Over' Feminist Clues" did not lead me to believe the speech would be focused on the Boston Bombings. Anyways, I still felt the speech was really engaging and interesting. 

Although she touched upon many topics throughout the speech, the one that stood out the most was when she talked about the masculinization of certain athletic events. For example, how the marathon is less of a gendered event because both men and women participate and how they both wear the same type of apparel and how the time differences between the men and women winners were shrinking. Where, compared to other sports such as football and events like the Superbowl where it is heavily masculinized. I liked the contrast she gave when she first talked about how the marathon was not a very gendered event, then compared it to the response to the bombings which were highly masculinized and militarized. 

Overall, I really liked her in class discussion and her lecture later that night. She was engaging and offered many different insights and opinions to different topics. Dinner afterwards was also a lot of fun where the food was delicious.