Wow, I cannot believe that Christmas has come and gone. The hustle and bustle, food and presents are over for another year. I love this season, full of such love, joy, and excitement. I love researching present ideas for friends and family, find a theme to my wrapping paper, planning out my Christmas lunch menu and decorating my house.
This year instead of rushing around the shops of Boxing Day, I took a chill day and spent it binge watching movies and Youtube videos. Particularly a lot of 'What I Got For Christmas' videos. I love these videos, not only cause they are fun to watch but also cause I'm super nosey and it's interesting to see how the other half lives.
So this year I thought I would do a blog post around the same thing, so aside from vouchers and money I received, here is what I got.
Now this is not be bragging in any way, shape or form, I just thought that you followers might be as nosey as I am. This is also a way of showing my appreciation to everyone who gave
She swoops in with her hair perfectly coiffed, white coat floating around her knees, ready to clean up any messes thrown her way. She is Olivia Pope and though at times she can wield enough power to bring those around her tumbling down, she is a fixer and is primarily there to clean up other people’s messes. “Television is decidedly a media that must by definition express dominant cultural expressions to be successful” and in doing so we expect the themes expressed by programming to be truthful and a reflection of society’s ideologies.[1] As a piece of popular culture, Scandal is lauded as ground breaking in the way it comments on and embraces current American politics as well as hot button issues like race and women’s rights.[2],[3]. Yet, as ground breaking as Scandal is, the show also presents women who, though multifaceted in their characterizations, are deeply rooted in many of society’s gender assumptions. Now if you have read any of my blog posts before you would know how obsessed I am with Shonda Rhimes and the work she produces. However, today I wanted to take a different perspective on one of my favourite television shows, exploring its place in society’s understanding of how women should behave. It is important to me as a growing academic and writer that I am able to view and create different opinions and criticisms, even if it is on a topic I hold dearly. 
