All over the world, girls often go through a "princess phase", made up with anything pink and pretty. When it happened to Peggy Orenstein's daughter, the writer decided to examine the phenomenon. She found that the “girlie-girl” culture was less innocent than it might seem, and can have negative consequences for girls' psychological, social and physical development. From a very young age, girls learn to define themselves from the outside in, and a lot of researches suggest that our culture’s emphasis on physical beauty is the root of problems such as negative body image, depression, eating disorders and high-risk sexual behavior. I strongly agree with the Peggy Orenstein’s article.
As you get more in depth in the article, Lopez has a very liberal opinion on this controversial topic, as she talks about “Girls Speak Out” and girl scouts getting their “Decisions for Your Life” badge you can tell by her writing that she has a bias opinion. But towards the beginning of it, her tone may come across as sarcastic. Lopez has a critical form of writing as she uses lots of facts and statistics to get her point across. Sarcasm is a big part of this article, and that is proven when the author talks about the new traditions and new badges that these innocent girls take part in. While this article is jumps around a lot, and is a little hard to understand, the author has a creative way of getting her point across without being so forward, for example, as she talks about Planned Parenthood, her opinion is very clear, but she does not necessarily say it.
NOW explains that their endorsements are intelligent, well-rounded authentic women, but Fazzone wants to know if they are really women who bask in the sex object role, and what are the shows NOW endorses are really about? Felicity was the third-most feminist show in NOW’s “Feminist Primetime Report,” yet the women would do anything for the crush she followed to college. For example, in the show, once a week, Felicity would revolve her life around the same guy. The other shows that were ranked high in NOW were heroines they stated as one’s who “broke out of the sex object role,” but Fazzone explains that instead these “heroines” are empowered only because they’ve decided that what really drives female power is sex. How authentic are these actresses that NOW endorses, Fazzone questions.
According to Steven Knopper, a reporter for Rolling Stone, the song We Owned the Night by Lady Antebellum jumped to number 1 in the first week, “selling 347,000 copies” (Knopper). In 2006 Hillary Scott, Charles Kelly, and Dave Haywood came together to create a band, which they later named Lady Antebellum. Lady Antebellum is a family of musicans that has been influenced by artists such as the Allman Brothers Band and The Eagles, and they have won countless awards on their many songs. Many different people have influenced Lady Antebellum. In an interview with the lead guitarist Dave Haywood, Patrick Luce- a reporter for Monsters and Critics, reported that the three of them “pull from vocal groups like the Eagles and Allman Brothers” (Luce).
There is no exact age as to when a girl is required, or pleases, to wear makeup, but in our society girls would like to wear makeup when breakouts first occur (usually around the age of middle schooled children). Nevertheless, it is now a norm in our society to see teens and preteens believing that they must wear makeup because of what the media tells them a “beautiful girl” appears like. Popular celebrity magazines like Entertainment Weekly, People, US Weekly and many more, as well as movies, the internet and any other place the media influences can be blamed as to why our younger generations choose to begin wearing makeup at such a young age. At an early age female children should not try to imitate mother by wearing high heels, makeup and what not; instead female children should be gaining proper morals promoted by parents and loved ones in order to produce a idealistic child that every parent wishes upon. The media works hard and goes to any extent when they attempt to gain capital in our capitalistic country.
It is mesmerizing to read about the development of feminine modesty, which Peril illustrates throughout the essay with abundant factoids highlighted with bullets within the text of the essay. “Betsy Martin McKinney told readers of Ladies’ Home Journal that…sexual activity commenced with intercourse and completed with pregnancy and childbirth” (pg. 280-81). This particular bulleted point precisely offers an excellent view on sexual intercourse and how girls of the think pink era were taught to think. “[A] new game for girls called Miss Popularity (“The True American Teen”), in which players competed to see who could accrue the most votes…for such attributes as nice legs…[and] a constant’s figure, voice, and type” (pg.
In the opening sequence of “clueless” the film maker has already captured the attention of the audience by the sound/music and camera techniques the title which could suggest it is it show how one girl could be rich, popular, and more but still be so “clueless” The film maker has based this film on a young life style of a young girl so the genre of this film is a teenage comedy. We know this because, in the opening sence they use child like and very feminine colours so this is defiantly going to appeal to teenagers. They then go on to show teenage issues e.g. gossip which Cher can’t live with out, clothes and fashion are very important to a popular girl and even when they can’t buy they can still look. Money is very important to a teenage girl in there eyes you can never have too much, money also
Music is the second top seller in entertainment spending, with 92% of kids 14-17 owning an MP3, and 84% of adults age 18-24 owning some type of MP3. With this much of the population owning MP3s, the music industry is booming with the sale of MP3 downloads. On the other hand, 63% of people download illegally, and only 52% of music downloaded was paid for. This means that, as a nation, maybe the problem isn’t the “cleanliness” of music, but the way we get this music. The people that support censorship should try to make it harder to download music illegally.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world since 2000, and 52% are parents. My research has also shown me that women have a more intense drug use than men. Between the last 30 or so and now, the number of imprisonments has risen by 500%. In conclusion, the prison system strips women of their parental power, their no concerns of the well-being of their children and the desire for mothers to reunite. As a result, women in prison have difficulties receiving visits and they are also more likely to have their parental rights terminated during incarceration.
Painkillers, depressants, and stimulants are the medications most frequently prescribed, and consequently the most frequently abused. “Between 1991 and 2010, prescriptions for stimulants increased from 5 million to 45 million, and opioid painkillers increased from about 30 million to 180 million” (NIDA, 2011). The only possible explanations for these increasing numbers are that either incidence rates for certain medical conditions are rising, or prescription drug addictions are growing. Over the course of 9 years prescription drugs have been becoming easily available among millions of people in the United States. Therefore teenagers have been able to easily access these drugs because of the large amounts that are already prescribed to patients.