Gender Stereotypes In The Mud

I use to love the dirt. The mud, the bugs, getting my clothes and hands dirty. Everyday after elementary school, my younger brother and I use to run to our backyard and dig up dirt piles then make mud pies or mud castles. I absolutely loved the dirt, until middle school. Middle school changed my outlook on how little girls should act and dress.It shaped my story of feminity and womanhood. Once I turned 13, I watched more television and read more teen magazines. I was open more to the media and what I saw changed the way I was. I no longer played in the dirt or wore basket ball shorts or sneakers. I started to wear nice, denim jean skirts with flip-flops and shirts with flowers on them. I actually brushed out my hair and made my mom buy me barrettes to wear. I completely changed the way I dressed and acted just to be perceived as a girl. I was still a girl when I played in the mud, but since that wasn’t the way little girls in movies or television shows acted, I thought society would see me as a one. As I began to get older my …show more content…
Females are suppose to dress a certain way, walk a certain way, have certain jobs, be a mother. All of those things and more make up definitions of what it means to be feminine. It was drilled in my head when I was younger of what femininity and womanhood is. I am older now and am able to form my own opinions and thoughts of womanhood which changed a little of how I thought when I was younger. In the future I am sure that my views on both, femininity and womanhood are going to continue to change. I will have much experiences here in college that will shape my story. It is just important to not let the media shape my identity of both of these topics. To be feminine doesn’t necessarily mean to dress a certain way or care about certain things in life. It just determines what type of woman you are, because in womanhood, there are lots of different type of woman who are all