She is able to manipulate facts and reality, hide the truth and be in control of whom she is. However, it is not very stable, and can easily be destroyed, just as easily as Blanche’s illusions. Stanley, the antithesis of Blanche, “[smashes] light bulbs” [pg. 72] for pleasure. He loves light and is not afraid of confrontation.
Unfortunately, the wannabe aims to please the Queen Bee, doing anything to get in her good grace. The movie Mean Girls will illustrate the evils of social acceptance, either you’re in the ‘in’ crowd or you’re out. Directed by Mark Waters, from a screenplay by Emmy winner Tina Fey, Mean Girls is a fictional comedy based on Rosalind Wisemans’s New York
Not only are these standards physically impossible for some men and women to achieve, they are completely unfair. Nowadays, things like magazines and celebrities try to define beauty and fit the “ideal image” of a gender into a box. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it always has been and it should remain that way. For my male Frankenstein I choose to emphasize certain parts of the male body. The head and face for my male are extra-large because men are
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.
Directing Assignment COMM 2312.03 MWF 11:45-12:35 Richard Edmonson By: Brianna Adriana It is obviously really hot since Ana ends up in her underwear and so do the other ladies. In time they end up all undressing and are careless of their flaws. They seem to be working on dresses and get this great idea to start making some for women like them with bigger sizes. It was a start of great idea for them to change their lives and progress to better things. It is a realistic story and scene.
The author purported, "... It may seem that the promise of beauty is nothing but a commercial myth that binds women to its costly pursuit." (Peiss 23). These commercials such as those in television shopping channels illustrate their perspectives of how people should look with cosmetics on. In reality, that contraception may not apply and appeal to all.
The soap opera’s producer tells Michael/Dorothy “You are a breakthrough lady for us, Dorothy. You’re your own person” (Ballon 62). Even though Dorothy seems to have a strong woman character, he seems to victimize women as well. She always casts them as weak, unassertive, roles that amplify our perception of women as beautiful but weak in their real lives. Only when Dorothy appears, does the breakthrough occur, meaning that it is male-initiated.
But, some of the most successful books have been female based characters and not male characters. It’s just there are so many boy books that hardly anyone stops to notice the girl books. Any of the characters from the books could easily have been a girl; it’s just the male dominance issue is stopping that from happening. In The Smurfette Principle, author Katha Politt says, “Doctor Sue’s books are more about imagination then gender, but still, there is a male narrator”. Along with all of this comes sexism and how it plays a role in children’s lives.
Before the 20th century women rarely wore trousers and never blazers. This changed when Gabriel “Coco” Chanel decided to turn fashion upside down. Chanel catered to women’s needs and wants, rather than what was believed to be in style. Gabriel Chanel believed, “Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.” Therefore the corsets and hobble skirts that preceded Chanel’s reign of style were not deemed luxury to the designer. Coco Chanel created sweaters of jersey and a women’s blazer that are still impactful.
Beauty is a gender role pushed extremely hard toward women. To be the right size, and shape and have the “perfect hair” is a pressure most men don’t feel. I blame this completely on gender roles. Most men don’t care about the shade of red lipstick a women is wearing, or notice when she flips her hair a different way, yet it’s what makes a women feel beautiful? In the story a gift of the magi, one whole paragraph is dedicated to the main character- Della’s- worry about if her husband will still find her attractive, even though she cut off and sold her hair to buy him a Christmas gift.