Why Do Gender Stereotypes Kill Girls?

While I was on Youtube listening to music I ran across one of those notorious commercials that play before your video. Usually I just wait until it says skip, but this commercial grabbed my attention. I actually began to watch and after it was over I started looking up more just like it on Youtube instead of trying to listen to music, like I originally intended to do. The ad was by Always, a company who sells feminine hygiene products. In the ad it brought up how we perceive when people say “like a girl”, during the commercial they interviewed girls of all ages even young boys what it meant hit, run, and throw like a girl. It really got me thinking, and I have even said those words and what did they truly mean? Was I not intentionally enabling the behavior of gender equality based on what I had seen in society? I remember being on the …show more content…
Martinson suggests that girls start to be more aware of their appearance in grade school and feel that they are being judged based upon them. Not only do they think they are being judged on their looks but their on their knowledge as well, which is only based on their gender not their actual potential: “...girls believe they are judged for their looks rather than ability, and half are unhappy with those all-important looks. More than a third of girls over the age of seven have been made to feel stupid because of their gender. Whatever you think about the body mass index, isn 't pre-puberty too young to stop eating?” Sexism is starting with young girls tearing down their confidence, while burning these stereotypes into them and society. Beginning at this young age girls are made to feel lesser than a boy and it sticks with them throughout their life making sexism in society possible to