You might think you are not fan girl material and you might want some help, but do not worry; everyone has chosen the fan girl life nowadays! Just ask those Bieber-crazy fans who cut themselves when news broke out about their idol making a bad decision. Just think about is, now you can turn into an obsessed fan just like them! The first big step in becoming a fan girl includes always being hypersensitive. Your idol easily compares to a newborn child who needs love and protection.
As a teenager there will be a time where breaking the bonds of childhood, entering a world of rebellion, and being obsessed with popularity will be normal. For teenage girls, in order to acquire this popularity they need to be thin, busty, and wear revealing clothing while gossiping about peers and spending time worrying about boys and parties rather than their academics. But, where did this image of how to be a popular teenage girl come from? For decades, teen films have portrayed popular teenage girls this way and the film Mean Girls is no exception. This film not only displays how the world expects teenage girls to act, but also how difficult it is for teenage girls to resist acting this way.
‘Maybe you better go along to your own house now. We don’t want no trouble’ this shows that the workers were cautious of being caught with Curley’s wife and sent her on her way to avoid conflict. Curley treasures his wife and if she were caught in any trouble, even if it was her fault, she’d be seen as innocent. Finally, Steinbeck also presents women as attractive and confident. The quotes ‘If he ain’t, I better look someplace else, she said playfully’ and ‘Hi, Good-lookin’.’ These show all the workers think Curley’s wife is attractive and she knows this, so she’s being confident with them.
Women are expected to put on a motherly overtone while working; they are required to laugh at the jokes of the customers and are expected to go above and beyond their traditional expectations. However, if a man was working in these types of jobs he would not be required to display these types of emotions and nobody would think any differently of him. This is a double standard that many women are subjected to in the workplace. The importance of shadow labor becomes apparent when considering how society reacts to it. There are many feminine jobs that are considered detached from any type of emotional investment, but despite this common misconception, “it’s the emotional labor, the stress of feeling obligated to smile through humiliating comments that marks this work
She’s no saint though, she can also be demanding, moody, and stubborn. We can argue about something of little importance and if she’s wrong there’s no way of getting her to admit it. She can get on my nerves more than anyone in the world and she knows just which buttons to push. Despite our arguments, I still love her. Not only is she my mother she is my best friend.
Medea is alienated by society because she is an intelligent, foreign, powerful woman. The first reason Medea is shunned is her gender. In the patriarchal society of Ancient Greece, femininity is a faux pas on its own. On top of being a woman, though, she is clever and intelligent; these qualities were not admirable in a woman of her time. King Creon states that “a sharp tempered woman, or for that matter a man, is easier to deal with than the clever type who hold her tongue.” Medea is, in fact, clever enough to hold her tongue and stay quiet.
However they face the challenge and constant pressure to perform in all areas of their life whilst balancing domestic and corporate lives. This gives rise to the issue of being drained and burned out. Although women in the developed world have been blessed with more equal opportunities after generations of unfair inferiority, the pressure put on a society's women to be perfect at whatever they are expected to do is huge. Even with the enormous developments that have been made over decades, women must still constantly fight for the right to create their own identities, no matter where they're from or what they believe in. They strive to be like their precedents and in the bargain lose their self-identity.
It is not much you can do to make someone accept who they are, that choice is left up to the individual. Many young women in different cultures go through life trying to fit into what America calls the norm, young teens just need to find their niche and perfected it. Every woman’s time is different when they finally stop caring what people think. Ladies, you just have to learn to love you. When girls take all the negative and positive aspects of their life and mush it all together it makes the person they are today.
Subversive Female Characters In Alison Lurie’s “Folktale Liberation” she claims that the true folktales are subversive meaning that women and the middle class have power, they are original and clever. In the film “Grease” the main female character Sandy is exactly what Lurie would view as being beautiful, smart, and precisely the character a man would centralize as his female role. Lurie proves that the old folktales orally told to children in the past by women are much more powerful than those re-written by men now. She praises women empowerment and does not like them being downplayed. Although this film emerges to not be subversive by the end of the film you come to realize that with time and learning on Sandy’s part it truly is.
Analysis and Interpretation of; “The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart” This short story could have happen today; it could have happened everywhere, in Nærum and in a hole other country. The main conflict and theme is; a teenage girl’s hard situation and choice of how to grow up, to fit in to the environment and the kids at the school, or to fit in at home with her family. To have your mother to look at you in a bad way, or your best friend but also the coolest girl at school? The theme can be to grow up, making the right choices, to fit in or just as simple as friendship. All these themes or can we call them questions or problems, are what the author tries to show us and maybe answer us trough the short story “The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart”.