Beauty pageants

The Stereotypical Girl Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, and Beyoncé, all great women who have changed the way that many teenage age girls act today. Kim Kardashian has changed the way girls dress and broke many fashion rules, Britney Spears showed people that just because you have a rough year doesn’t mean you can’t grow and learn from it, Miley Cyrus had a certain persona tied to her and she taught young girls that just because people perceive you a way doesn’t mean you are who…

Disney’s Not So Happily Ever After Parents Disney Princesses and Happily Ever After no longer just an imaginative story line embracing the tales of time, but now seen by aloof as a rather cruel tool used to plague the minds of our youth with unrealistic ideals, expectations, and body image. Stephanie Haynes, a freelance journalist, critiques in great detail her ideas of the growing trend of sexualization of young girls. This is captured in her essay titled “Little Girls or Little Women? the…

Chaz Dean is a hairstylist to the stars. True, most of his clients are Hollywood celebrities. However, his products are readily available to the public. We've all seen his famous info-commercials advertising the Wen by Chaz Dean hair-care line. Women are sitting around on a stage raving about the wonderful results they obtained with the Wen by Chaz hair-care products. An article appeared on Bustle about a young woman that decide to put the products to the test. Would the products tame her limp,…

Popular Culture: Perpetuating Fat and Slut Shaming Popular culture is notorious for many things, but the portrayal of the obese and the portrayal of women have the most influence in my life. The twisted ideals that have been held up for years have molded my mindset and my self esteem through popular tv shows, movies, music, and toys. For example most girls grew up playing with Barbie and Ken dolls, but as a little girl I was never allowed to get Barbies because they were too expensive. I was…

Beauty Is Pain Winning best song and video with a social message at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards; Beyoncé, Sia and Ammo wrote the song called “Pretty Hurts”. Exposing the truth about how our society creates pressure among women to achieve the idea of a “perfect body.” The song was written in 2013 and released in June next year. They focus on the extremely high standards young women face to fulfill the stereotype society has created for them, regardless of how their self-esteem is being…

I Once Met a Diabetic Named Laura In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s, “The Myth of the Latin Women: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”, Cofer is talking about how hard it is to be a Latina girl and not get stereotyped in the process. Many people can relate to this because of the multiple ways to be stereotyped such as a jock, a nerd, or a hipster.. This is something I can personally relate to because, of the many people stereotyping young kids and adults with diabetes. In this paper I will be showing you how…

Will Cosmetic Surgery Make Teens Happy? “My nose looks too big. My ears look like elephant ears. My chin looks too big. I’m too fat.”, voices in a teen’s mind kill them slowly. Have you ever thought that there’s something about yourself that you hate, and it could be changed through cosmetic surgery? Teens have been wanting cosmetic plastic surgery since they don’t like a feature of them. They’ve been bullied or bully themselves about the physical feature. They believe that by having cosmetic…

We both know it, Celebrities are role models Celebrities (such as professional athletes and entertainers) should be role models. Raise your hand if you have a role model who is an athlete or entertainer? As you can see most of us have a celebrity role model. I of course have one myself Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift has inspired me to surround myself with people that don't influence me to do bad things, which is something Taylor Swift does. Taylor Swift also dresses age appropriate instead of like…

Everyone faces a problem weither it’s big or small and hopefully you can or have overcome it. There are people all over the world who face problems like diversity, being judged, getting hate, or flaws. In higher levels of ballet people or teachers have an image of a “perfect ballernia” and to people Misty Copeland didn’t fit their image. Conflicts Misty would face to becoming principle ballernia is her color of skin, muscular legs, curvy body, and from sterotypes they think African Americans…

Nike is known for the empowerment of all types of people, always trying to prove and show that anyone can do anything, that they are invincible while wearing their products. In this specific ad, Nike is reaching out to young girls who are forced into the social norm of being a girl. Girls don’t play sports, kick balls, run. Girls sing, and they gossip and they shop. Nike sets a scene we are all familiar in and can relate to. Everyone gets nervous before performing, and while performing, you want…