She was not afraid to flaunt herself at men and the media. Marilyn was a very outgoing, fun person. She was loved by everyone. By using the dumb blonde stereotype, it proved very successful for Marilyn’s career and her love life. She was actually a very intelligent woman but chose to play dumb.
In Amanda Fazzone’s article “Boob Tube,” she explains how TV. show heroines are empowered only because they “bask in the sex object role,” even though NOW (National Organization for Women) states that these “intelligent” and “well-rounded” women are able to “break out of the sex object role and portray authentic people.” Fazzone questions NOW’s credibility for their criterion of their idea of authentic and intelligent women. “If heroines like Felicity are empowered, it’s only because they’ve decided that what really drives female power is sex,” Fazzone states at the beginning of the article. Fazzone takes a stand against NOW asking how they choose their endorsements. NOW explains that their endorsements are intelligent, well-rounded authentic women, but Fazzone wants to know if they are really women who bask in the sex object role, and what are the shows NOW endorses are really about?
These functions of stereotypes can be seen in teen comedy films such as Legally Blonde (2001) and Bring It On (2000), where the stereotypical beautiful, popular girl becomes completely taken over by the label her peers have given her. The most exemplary use of this stereotype in film is used in Tina Fey’s Mean Girls (2004). In Mean Girls (2004), the main characters are the Plastics, a group of four rich and perfect girls who use their popularity and good looks to rule over their North Shore High School hallways. The film highlights how stereotypes function, according to Andre, because the Plastics use their label as fundamental in their daily lives from what they wear, to who they talk to, they use it as a shield to protect themselves from the judgment of their peers, and finally are generalized by their qualities. When individuals are stereotyped by their society it becomes a part of their conceptual scheme, or point of view, effecting how they perceive and relate to others (2).
Junot Diaz first shows stereotyping girls by their skin color when he states, “If she is a white girl you know you would at least get a hand job (178)” This quote is basically saying that white girls are relatively “easy to date” and based on their race you may be able to expect specific sexual favors. In addition he shows more stereotyping by skin color “The white ones are the ones you want the most” implies that they are the preferred race to date although difficult to date due their family dynamic, such as parent approval (179). Later in the story he stereotypes the black girls “the out-of-towners are black, black girls who grew up with ballet and Girl Scouts, who have three cars in their driveways (179).” The quote mentioned is illustrating that no black girls live in this neighborhood and speculates the black girl would need to be a member of a mixed family to have these childhood opportunities. To some extent the narrator shows stereotyping against white males when he states, “Run a hand through your hair like the white boys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa (179)” He is actually stating that girls normally like white guys because of their soft and smooth hair. In addition “Neither of them want her seeing any boys from the Terrace-people get stabbed in the Terrace (179).” implies that boys from the
McClelland is well known for being a great human rights reporter, although in 2011 she was considered untrustworthy when she wrote a personal essay about countering her PTSD with rape fantasy roleplay sex, with some journalists defending it and other journalists criticizing it. When it was revealed that McClelland had written about and revealed the identity of a Haitian rape victim against that victims' wishes on multiple occasions, some who had initially praised the essay condemned her for a breach of ethics. Anthony and Erin Rodriguez are a middle class couple living in Ohio worrying about how to make ends meet, due to a newly elected republican governor Kasich. Kasich’s plan cuts funding, and the budgets of city government and services. This could possibly hinder Anthony’s job with a budget cut of 51 percent.
Goals: To go to college. Abilities: Track star, smart. Problems: to jockey. B. Joey Jackson I like him because he seems cool. C. One scene was when his girlfriend broke up with him and the other was when he brought the stripper to the prom.
Summers, Courtney. Cracked Up to Be. St. Martin’s Griffin: New York, 2009. In this bestselling novel, Courtney Summers tells the story of “perfect” Parker Fadley, a high school senior at Saint Peter’s High who somehow goes from being the most popular, beautiful, and smartest girl in her class while also managing to be the head of the cheerleading squad to failing most all of her classes, being kicked off the cheerleading squad, and to top it all off, being put on suicide watch. Parker has a deep secret which has led to this sudden downfall of her attitude and behavior, but finally is put to realization when her partying and out of control ways go too far, making her realize that help is what she has needed all along and the mistakes she has
”I think the administration is wrong in this situation, and I don’t want this to happen to other people.” The five editors, who said their decision was unanimous, said Spies’ blame was misplaced, in both targeting the administration, and believing that it was a dress code issue. They also offered her an opportunity to include the photo in the yearbook, just not as her senior photo. “If she (Spies) chooses to, the picture will run as her senior ad, not her senior portrait,” Trujillo said. Despite the clarification from her peers into how and why the decision was made, a meeting Spies initiated between herself, her mother, and the school’s principal, Diane Lashinsky, was held today as planned. “The editors all turned their backs on me and changed their minds,” she told the Herald.
Smith didn't run around with rock stars. ("I guess I needed attention," Ms. O'Neal says, about setting a fire at Rod Stewart's house and stealing his girlfriend's shoe.) But "West of Then" is good enough to make her own experiences just as memorable. This book's phantom is Karen Morgan, Ms. Smith's photogenic mother, who began life as part of a privileged Hawaiian family with a lineage tracing back to the Mayflower and wound up homeless in a Honolulu park. The tensions within this family are piercingly evoked.
Katie De Hoedt Nickolas White Composition 101 2 December 2007 America’s Favorite Blond, But Why? Before she was Marilyn Monroe and blond, her given name was Norma Jean Morienson. Her image change can be noted as part of her appeal. It was part of the process of reinventing herself and transforming into what everyone became to know her as. The idea of reinventing one’s self, changing one’s life completely, and becoming the marvel of everyone because of it is appealing to Americans.