Non-fiction essay on how the book Cinderella Ate My Daughter responds to societal issues. The new generation has been taken over by the poor representation of women and girls in the media, from television screens to magazines; women are portrayed as the weak and sensitive gender doing housework chores such as cooking or laundry. The topic of societal issues occurs in the book Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein. In the book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, by Peggy Orenstein, the author responds to societal issues like eating disorders and Disney’s impact on girls with research from psychological associations and real-life situations. Peggy says that the girlie girl culture we are living in is increasing issues like eating disorders, body weight issues and unsafe sexual behaviour.
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 .
In the article, “Controlling your reality” Paige Pfleger states “Reality television can also preserve old fashioned notions about sexual stereotyping. Women are encouraged to fulfill roles as “the slut” and are simultaneously devalued by doing so” sadly these are the types of stereotypes young girls and women grow up with (3). Little girls are told to act a certain way only for society to reject and humiliate them for it. In The Hunger Games Collins makes a point by sexually objectifying Glimmer, a career tribute, because she looks like the stereotype of sexy. In the novel Collins writes, “The girl tribute from District 1, looking provocative in a see-through gold gown…With that flowing blonde hair, emerald green eyes, her body tall and lush… she’s sexy all the way”(125).Collins makes it clear that society has a very specific image of what sexy should look like.
With one thing leading to another, beauty pageants lead to hypersexualization and how it lead to beauty, then to superficial attitudes, then to self-esteem problems, and finally to health issues. Hypersexualization One of my main reasons why I am against young girls participating in beauty pageants is because eventually it can lead to sexualization and ransom for the sexual predators. Which could possibly lead to death. For example, Martinez and Karimi (2013) discuss the JonBenet Ramsey case, who in fact was a beauty pageant queen. JonBenet received a bike for Christmas in 1996, the day after Christmas she was kidnapped.
In “Little Women: Alcott’s Civil War” (1979), Judith Fetterly argues that the four sisters of Alcott’s Little Women (1868) are denied their dreams because “Little women marry, however, not only because they lack economic options, but because they lack emotional options as well. Old maidhood obliterates little womanhood and the fear of being an old maid is a motivating force in becoming a little woman” (377). I conclude that these strong women chose their life outcomes due to their own maturation. Maturation is realizing things we wanted before aren’t always what we will want in the end, a trait Meg exhibits when she comes to realization about loving Mr. Brooke. Meg’s dream was to be rich so that she would not have to work, with “a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious things; nice food, pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant people, and heaps on money”(140).
She state that her action that night was ‘the worst dating faux pas’ meaning that what she had done was against the idea of a typical male-in-control relationship. Mulvey then establishes her main contention that there are many young and successful women out there who would ‘soften their image’ and conceal their accomplishments to get the perfect husband and increase their chances of marriage. In this article the writer uses a rhetorical question as a way to draw readers towards her contention that women should step up to be in control of
The revolution between the renaissance and 20th century USA has impacted the society of the teenagers through language, gender roles, relationships and education. Ten things I hate about you retain the basic plot of Williams Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew. Both create a storyline of a father with two daughters manufacturing a rule of the younger sister not interacting with male counterparts until the older sister does. In taming of the shrew Bianca is unable to marry her suitors until Katherina the “shrew” becomes wedded. In ten things being a film about teenagers in society marriage is not socially acceptable at that age unlike the 16th century.
They want to make sure they have an excellent Christmas for their children and families, so they are going to cut back on entertainment Right now the national unemployment rate has gone up to 8.6%.1. As I stated before, because of this economy fall, people have to really second guess what they spend their money on. Entertainment is seen as leisure time, not a priority in life. And with how much bowling cost right now, people find it not worth it. At my center, a game is $3.95/per game, per person and shoes are $4.10/ per person.
An old lady has just told me that I speak exactly like Queen Victoria. (Shaw67)” This is a key moment in the play, because the reader can see Eliza’s true desire to ultimately fit in with the elegant women of the higher social class . Before this moment, Eliza wanted to be compared to the queen, but now she realizes she sticks out for, in her mind, the wrong reasons. Prior to her metamorphosis Eliza was alienated by society for her barbaric nature, but after she learns the importance of phonetics she is once again alienated for being exceedingly eloquent. This is ironic because the once poor uneducated flower girl has surpassed the social status of the women she once envied.
Mommy, why don’t I look like the airbrushed, photo-shopped girl in the magazine? Are women being subliminally brainwashed by society everyday? This may seem like an outrageous rhetorical question, but a study found that just watching 30 minutes of TV programming and advertising can change the way a young woman perceives the shape of her body, indicating that body image can be influenced by observing “ideal body shapes.” Our society’s perception of beauty is undoubtedly molded by the unrealistic cookie cutter ideal set by the media and beauty industry, which is the direct cause of many psychological problems in women facing us today. The standards currently set by Hollywood and the media are all around us, we see them on the television, movies, and the magazines on the checkout stands at the grocery store. We are constantly bombarded with this picture of how we are supposed to look in order to be deemed beautiful.