The Making Of A Slut Analysis

In society everybody has to overcome challenges in their life. The biggest challenge we have to overcome as a society is the economical barrier. Particularly for the people who are born in the ghetto this barrier is huge to overcome; this world presents a lot of obstacles for the people who come from this environment because they are usually poor. In fact, everything bad that happens in our society is associated with these people just for the fact that they do not live up to certain standards. The what so called high class people would not associate themselves with these types of people because they are usually poorer than them. They brainwash their kids everyday telling them that these people are beneath them. Therefore, these kids already …show more content…
In Naomi Wolf’s “The Making Of A Slut” she discusses that women target themselves because of a difference in class, in which she used an example of a girl named Dinah; as a result, the author brings up that women from a higher class creates this false sense of privilege and entitlement. This comes with an attitude of superiority against the other women, and these women feel that somehow they are insulated from their actions because of the other women. This has become a major factor in women these days just because of the matter: …show more content…
In the film, “Real Women Have Curves” by director Patricia Cardoso she discusses about a Latina teenager named Ana struggling with the decision of being the women her mother wants her to be or creating her own path. In this movie, there is a scene when Ana and her sister went to her sister, boss to ask for a advancement in money of their job to pay some utility bills, and the boss instead of helping them, she acted with some attitude of superiority like I do not have to help you, you work for me not vice versa instead of helping them out like a good sister. Likewise Wolf’s says “…Class had declared her a slut by fourteen, while she was still technically a virgin, and kept her there, kept me and my other wild little middle-class friends safe.” These girls thought that by calling Dinah a slut they were superior then her and nothing was going to happen to them. In New York, girls from higher class call the girls from lower class hoes thinking that they are superior than these girls because of this; not knowing is just making them hoes as well. At the same time, Dinah was going through this and instead of the girls backing her up, they decided to get as far away from Dinah as they can like she was the devil not realizing all they were