It all begins with a young girl being born into the world of judgment. Children believe everything they are told. If they are told they are beautiful, they will believe it until someone tells them otherwise. Young girls are impressionable by their mother’s and female counter part’s actions, such as wearing fancy clothes and putting on make-up. In the poem, the speaker states the girlchild has “wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (4), showing that she already wants to alter her appearance.
Think Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz, Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits, Peta Wilson in La Femme Nikita, Demi Moore in Ghost, Halle Barry in Monster’s Ball. The LIBRARIAN: controlled and clever, she holds back. She’s prim and proper, but underneath that tight bun lurks a passionate woman. Dressed to repress, she might be the know-it-all whose hand is always up in class, or maybe she is the shy mouse hiding in the library. Think Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, Ellen Barkin in The Big Easy, Shelley Long in Cheers, Gillian Anderson in The X-Files.
Regardless if it’s 2012 or 1950, young girls struggle with self-confidence issues. Marilyn Monroe was not the skinniest girl ever and she loved her body. She put out the message that tall, short, skinny, fat, white, or black you should always love the body you were given. One of her famous quotes was, “I’m living proof that you can still be adored by thousands, even
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. Mean Girls is a perfect example of how girls, want to be like the plastics. You have the Queen Bee throughout the movie and every normal girl wishing and wanting to be like her. She’s like the Barbie, everyone wish they could
The girl’s interests are usually limited to make-up, hair, boys and shopping. Movies such as ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Clueless’ and television shows such as ‘Big Bang Theory’, ‘Home & Away’ and ‘Sex In The City” encourage the idea that teenage girls and women are ditzy, stupid and superficial. The movie Clueless (1995), for example, stared Cher (Alicia Silverstone), a rich teenager from Beverly Hills. She was blonde and beautiful, and enjoyed the "typical" teenage girl activities. Cher and her friends spent all their time shopping, doing makeovers and chasing after guys.
She soon met two boys named Chase and Brendon. She soon fell into an abuse relationship with Brendon but wouldn’t leave because of her passionate love for Crank. After this Kristina becomes more involved with Chase and they fell head over heals for each other. Her addiction to crank lead her to become friends with a girl named Robyn. She was a big connection to
Her mind becomes an abyss of nothingness as she emulates the object she once loathed. Charlotte Perkins’ the yellow wallpaper encounters numerous levels to which it can be read. The most simple being a woman slowly being driven mas. Also showing the social structure of a family and how the male is the dominant being and what he says is expected to be obeyed. The yellow wallpaper can also be read through the eyes of phycology and the making of a mental patient, how a woman locked up and restricted from using her mind is slowly suffocated by her madness.
Therefore the girls have just hit puberty and are discovering themselves in a whole new way. They are very critical of themselves from this point on. “One was complaining to the other that she thought her butt was more heart than bubble and that she wanted bubble. And her friend [Cathy] said she thought heart was the best.” (178). Later in the story, when Tina is kissing the cute boy from the poster store, she continues to judge herself while thinking “how it [the skirt] had held in her butt and if she had been wearing that plastic skirt now, and he held her butt, it would remind him of a bubble, not a heart.
A ‘ragbag’ is a direct comparison of the type of woman she is, and ‘Splayed off at tangents’ is a metaphor on how she looks at herself. Ragbags projects an image of flexibility and strength because they are often perceived as carriers. This thought can be interpreted as: She, just like a ragbag splayed off at tangents, bogs down—giving us an image of how the woman looks at herself on weekends: literally thrown off on bed. Windows To the outside and
The Internet can do everything, and it is an incredible way for people all over the world to stay in contact and learn about each other. Sadly, with all these features there also comes much trouble. Cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking and identitytheft are just some of the problems that the Internet has caused. This, however, is about how Canadian-American feminist, media critic and blogger Anita Sarkeeshian became the victim of extreme online harassment specifically based on her gender and feminist viewpoints. In her speech “Online Harassment and Cyber Mobs” from 2012, she addresses this situation and starts a discussion about how especially online gaming portrays the female part of our world.