All around the world parent’s are putting their children into beauty pageants. Some of these children can barely talk and just learned to walk. Entering a child into beauty pageant is morally unjust and objectionable. What these children are learning isn’t helping them as much as they are harming them. They’re learning that physical beauty is the primary judges of their character and not their brains.
Luckily, two social outcasts, Janice and Damien, showed her around and warned her of all the other social cliques in the school. It is not long until the most popular girl group in the school, the “Plastics”, noticed Cady and invited her to join their group. Turning to her new friends Janice and Damien, Cady is convinced to pretend to be the Plastics’ friend in a plan to overthrow the leader of the group, Regina, and take away the group’s power over the school. Gaining instant popularity, Cady soon found herself sucked into the mean girl lifestyle and wanting to sabotage Regina for her own personal gain. It was not until Cady has
The ban comes as increasing numbers of young girls copy the 'sexy schoolgirl' look popularised by celebrities such as Rihanna and Brittany Speers. The headmaster of the Worcestershire school said the ban would eliminate 'unladylike' short skirts. 'Young women are far more impressionable than young men. They want to be the pop stars have their lifestyle, their clothes, their men, their habits” (Jones, date unknown) This shows
That is the definition of what beauty is in the show. This is a nearly impossible goal to achieve for the average girl watching this show. This definition of beauty comes from the media and the media is basically the main characters since they set all the standards of how to live life to be considered “cool” in their world of money and class. They are the ones that gossip about one another even if they are considered best friends over something as simple, as the fact that they don’t have their hair done or are not wearing the correct brand name dress.We will be using ideological criticism to analyze three main woman characters in the show;Blair Waldorf, Serena Van Der Woodsen, and Jenny Humphrey. The ideological criticism method analyzes and magnifies certain beliefs, values, attitudes, and visions of a particular aspect of the world.
Kat is a very strong, independant and opinionated person who never lets her opinions go to waste, whether they are aimed at her teachers or her fellow peers. She is against dating and often "sneers at the idiocy of teenage social life". She is cynical about many things, and does not believe that she needs to be like most teenagers that she is surrounded by. She says, “You forget I don’t care what other people think”, which directly shows us that she doesn't care for others opinions on her. She strongly dislikes her sister’s eagerness to fit in at school and tells Bianca, “You don’t always have to be what other people want you to be”, which shows us that she thinks Bianca should be herself and not follow in the path that her fellow school mates take.
The problem is this standard is so unreal and changes from day to day that how can any woman truly be this so called perfect woman? “Then the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a big nose and fat legs.” This line tells the truth of every teenage girl, and boy, in the world. At this age is when we come to “know” what it is that is beautiful and how to hate ourselves for not being that pictured image of it. We look in books and magazines on TV and the internet and see the images of models that are so skinny, nipped and tucked to perfection. Also we have Photoshop now; no one can look as good as some one that is enhanced by a computer to be something they are not.
The first scene, “The Plastics,” begins with Cady being tricked into skipping health class with her new friends, Damien and Janice. As Cady comes to the realization that they tricked her, she chooses to stay with Damien and Janice rather than go to class. Waters chose to portray Janice and Damien as the only two students pushing the social norms. Damien is, as Janice puts it, “too gay to function,” whereas Janice is stereotyped as a “dyke.” This is the only instance in the film where we observe gender roles being interchangeable, as well as the only time we observe two characters who seem not to care about being accepted into the higher parts of the social hierarchy. At this point in the film, Cady appears almost asexual, with no social stereotype attached to her.
The movie ‘Mean Girls’ provides insights into the concept of belonging because throughout the film the director Mark Waters shows the journey of Cady Herring (Lindsay Lohan) trying to find where she belongs in the social ranking at her new high school. Her predilection to belong with the ‘popular groups’, this desire puts some of her very few friendships she has on hold and they slowly start to crumble. The film discusses how trying to belong does not always have a positive outcome and isn’t always a positive thing to achieve. In today’s society almost everyone is superficial; people are judged on their appearance, the brands of clothing they wear, weather they have the latest phone, laptop, the type of house they live in the area in which they live and if they have a high paying job. And if you don’t have all of these or most of these you are generally considered an outcast.
Keisha Dotson July 19, 2010 English “Should Children Beauty Pageants Be Consider Harmful” Most people when they think of a child beauty contest or pageant, they think of the glamour, big hair styles and the over the top make up jobs for the child in question. Really and truly the pressure of the pageant itself can lead to serious self esteem issues and other psychosomatic issues. Children beauty pageants should be consider a psychological health risk for young children and their childhood. The main reasoning behind child beauty pageants is that the parents say that they enter their child or children are to give an increase in confidence. But according to (Lalan Maliakal), she states that “the mothers pressurize their children to work their appearance to look like a Barbie doll.” Young Children forgo their improvement and childhood years for beauty pageants and pressure by their mothers to be the best, which for the most part is not good because the child’s virtuousness have been blemished and compress by false synthetic similes and counterfeit eyelashes and sophisticated appearance .
For most parents and their little girls it is just good fun. They do not take the beauty pageants seriously. For a few parents the beauty pageants become an obsession. This is when beauty pageants for children can suddenly become very harmful. “Critics of the industry warn that the stresses of competition, coupled with an extreme focus on physical appearance, can have a negative effect long before these girls will be eligible for Miss America.” (Triggs, West and Aradillas 160-168) The loss of self-esteem, the inability to show a full range of emotions, the fear of failure, the extreme focus on physical image, and the discord with or fear of parents are a few of the symptoms those little girls will suffer from.