Warning! Alarms go off in your head. You’re at the mall walking around with one of your friends looking for clothes, when all of a sudden you look to your right and see this drop dead handsome guy, who’s standing only a few feet away from you on his phone. You rush to the bathroom to make sure there’s no food in your teeth and your is in the right place. You take a deep breath and walk outside. You see him still standing there, he notices you and your heart skips a beat. He smiled at you.
That was only a glance into the complicated life of a teenage girl. A girl who reads, wears the latest fashion trend, posts on social media, and watches K-dramas. Her ultimate goal is to look as beautiful as possible, like those girls in TV with their perfect smiles, …show more content…
It seemed only yesterday that boys were the one worrying about their abs and coolness, but times are changing. Changing for the worst.
Most of the women on TV and in magazines look good and have the perfect bodies. They mostly wear clothes that are in style. In movies these people get the guy they want. As of today, shows like 13 Reasons Why, shows that relationships are shallow and are mostly based on looks. One of the reasons why Hannah Baker committed suicide is because of the voting the guys have among girls’ best assets.
Shows like these only make girls self-conscious about their looks, because they think that the guys expect us to be some model with a perfect body. A lot of times we also think they want to look like some girl in a commercial. What they’re really saying is, “Hey girls look and be like me!”. This puts a lot of pressure on having a body the shape of a coca-cola bottle and being beautiful.
Another source that has changed the female thinking is the magazine. Girl magazines, like Cosmopolitan, encourages women to use power, to choose and be ahead of relationships, it also places pressure on girls to look better and be like
That was only a glance into the complicated life of a teenage girl. A girl who reads, wears the latest fashion trend, posts on social media, and watches K-dramas. Her ultimate goal is to look as beautiful as possible, like those girls in TV with their perfect smiles, …show more content…
It seemed only yesterday that boys were the one worrying about their abs and coolness, but times are changing. Changing for the worst.
Most of the women on TV and in magazines look good and have the perfect bodies. They mostly wear clothes that are in style. In movies these people get the guy they want. As of today, shows like 13 Reasons Why, shows that relationships are shallow and are mostly based on looks. One of the reasons why Hannah Baker committed suicide is because of the voting the guys have among girls’ best assets.
Shows like these only make girls self-conscious about their looks, because they think that the guys expect us to be some model with a perfect body. A lot of times we also think they want to look like some girl in a commercial. What they’re really saying is, “Hey girls look and be like me!”. This puts a lot of pressure on having a body the shape of a coca-cola bottle and being beautiful.
Another source that has changed the female thinking is the magazine. Girl magazines, like Cosmopolitan, encourages women to use power, to choose and be ahead of relationships, it also places pressure on girls to look better and be like