Critical Analysis G.I. Jane In her article, “I Won. I’m Sorry,” Mariah Burton Nelson contends that it’s hard for a woman to walk the line of success in any sport or competition and not have to worry about looking and acting feminine. She states, “Most female winners play the femininity game to some extent, using femininity as a defense, a shield against accusations such as bitch, man-hater, and lesbian. Women who want to win without losing male approval temper their victories with beauty, with softness, with smallness, with smiles” (Signs of Life in the USA 540).
The text Mariah Burton Nelson, “I Won, I’m Sorry” is centered on the culture of women athletics during their athletic career, how they must always create the atmosphere of femininity to accept being a winner. Most professional women athlete today in 2012 feel a degree of femininity is essential to having a successful career. A good point is how women athletes have crossed over to more feminine competition as beauty queens, swimsuit models for “Sport’s Illustrated” to escape connotations such as; the female athlete being associated with being a lesbian. The author of the text notes how the media plays a great role in determining how the public perceives female athlete roles. The addressing of the media having a role in projection of a female athlete role interjects the media may not always send the best message concerning a female athlete, which is a message of femininity concerning the athlete.
Although somewhat unrealistic, this is stereotypical of a young girl in America of this age, she is loving and adorable and unable to understand how unsuccessful she will be in winning the beauty pageant. “I won! I won! I get to go to the championships!” Olive screams when she gets the phone call to announce her making the finals. “I think I can win ‘cause a lot of the new girls - don’t have the experience” this portrays a young American girl in a huge way and so supports it strongly, as American girls of this age haven’t had a huge amount of life experience which leads to her elaborate aspirations.
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.
She wanted her daughter to try every opportunity she felt would eventually make her a star, such as being the next Shirley Temple by becoming an actor, intellectual testing, and when neither of those areas was working, she then decided that Jing will be a pianist. At first, Jing-mei seems to tolerate of her mother’s goals, but later became annoyed and felt her mother constant behavior towards her being a prodigy child that she is not may have gone too far. Being a housecleaner, Mrs. Woo didn’t much money to provide Jing with piano lesson; instead she traded housecleaning services for her piano lesson from a retired piano teacher Mr. Chong who is deaf and don’t have the best vision to tell whether or not Jing-mei is playing the right notes. Jing-mei had learned
The article that I found to relate to sexism at its finest is about Miss America, Carrie Prejean and her new breast. Not only did she receive free breast implants, but they were organized and paid for by the pageant, weeks before the Miss USA competition. If this doesn’t create an image of what women should look like I don’t know what does. So her boobs weren’t big enough so in order to have her fit in she received implants? This is disappointing to me.
Natasha Eason Engl Comp Sec 214 Sept 20, 2011 Ad Analysis Essay Cover Girl is one of the most successful cosmetic companies in the world. In this ad Cover Girl is trying to endorse the product Exact Eyelight Mascara. The ad to me seems to target young and middle age woman of any race or some men that think that they can make their women (spouse) look like the model in the ad. The ad uses white and nude like colors, very large text and a very close up picture of the model to show how the new mascara will bring out a person’s eye. It shows the four different shades that the mascara is available in on the side to try to get the target audience attention.
Alice Paul initially was apart of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), which was formed in 1890. Woman's suffragists such as Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Anna Howard Shaw were highly involved with NAWSA. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns used different, more aggressive methods than other women suffragists before them. Before President Woodrow Wilson's Inauguration, Alice Paul had planned a Woman's rights parade to help expand her opinion that women should have the right to vote. Many men were outraged by this parade and ended the parade in a brawl.
On the other hand, the target audience for Lady Gaga’s “The Fame” would mostly be towards young adults of both sexes, as she sings about a fast-paced life style where she only cares about “runway models, Cadillacs and liquor bottles”. The audience would also include people who share the similar viewpoint of how Lady Gaga would so desperately do whatever it takes to become rich and famous, as mentioned in the line “Cuz we wanna live the life of the rich and famous”. In Madonna’s “Nobody Knows Me”, she sings about how she feels that nobody understands who she really is, and also about how she does not care about how the world perceives her. The main idea of this text would be to not let other peoples’ opinions bother you, as stated when Madonna says “But why should I care what the world thinks of me”. In addition to this, the idea of free will is repeated several times with the line “No one’s telling you how to live your life”.
Toddlers and Tiaras Toddlers and Tiaras is a reality show about the very competitive world of child pageants. The show follows families and their daughters as they compete in beauty pageants in hopes to win sparkly crowns, pageant titles, trophies, and money. Some of the children competing in these shows are as young as two years old. In no way are they old enough to decide for themselves whether or not they want to compete in these pageants, but their parents have made that decision for them. The parents of these young pageant girls force them to wear pounds of makeup, spray them with fake tanning spray, buy fake teeth to cover up their baby teeth, wax their eyebrows, and encourage them to eat very little so they can be as thin as possible.