Gossip Girl

The public awareness of sexism is increasing in American society. Phrases such as “Get back in the kitchen” and “You hit like a girl” are profusely recycled in daily conversation. Because of this growing epidemic, the feminine hygiene company, Always, created a commercial to bring this delicate matter to light. In their commercial, “Like a Girl”, Always addresses matters of sexism with the cast and audience, both parties unaware of what is to come. Through this commercial, it becomes apparent…

to college in the United States. In China, people of the elder generation always have such kind of prejudice that they prefer boys to girls. My grandma and grandpa had been living in the countryside, so their prejudice was deeply rooted, so they did not like me. They thought my parents don 't need to spend too much money for me to study abroad, because I am a girl. They said to my parents don 't let me go abroad and said my grades don 't get into college, let me go…

According to Lauren Greenfield, prepubescent girls are more likely to be uninhibited with regards to their identities as a girl when compared with the negative “like a girl” associations that are apparent for girls ages 12 and up. Always published the first video of their campaign on June 26, 2014. The award winning director of the “Always ‘#LikeAGirl’” campaign, Lauren Greenfield, explained that the crew intended to find out how the ideas of doing things “like a girl” became insulting. Lauren…

A woman who has achieved even a high level of success, such as Sarah Palin or Hillary Clinton, are often as scrutinized on visual appeal as much as they are political policy. The airbrushed standards of the media and the standards put upon young girls as they develop into women have severely impacted the lives of women everywhere to strive for acceptance of their peers, superiors, and above all themselves…

paid more in light of the fact that he 's a man on the off chance that he is doing likewise measure of work as a lady. The fact that you think that I’m pretty so I have no brains; I should be put as a pleasing object to attract is wrong. You hire a girl who has less qualities than me but since I don’t have a body to attract I get told “ Sorry but we hired somebody, but you can try a different position.” Sexism is when my boss asks me to stay long hours to do work but doesn’t give me promotion.…

I grew up in a white family of five people. I have two siblings both boys and older than I. At a very young age I was taught that girls belong in the house cooking and cleaning and boys belong outside. Both my parents worked very long days and very long weeks. When I was old enough to clean the house I was given chores that needed to be completed every day my brothers didn’t have to do anything around the house. We lived in a quiet neighborhood where all the kids would play together, but I was…

just turned 11 years old and will be going into middle school this fall. My baby girl will be nine in a few weeks, she is autistic however, and it does not define her. Both are very active, EJ will be in the band at school, also a Boy Scout. Abby, a gymnast for the Special Olympics as well as plays baseball for the Miracle League. Along with them, I also have an older daughter she is 21; married and has a little girl my first granddaughter who keeps me on my toes. My husband and I are now at a…

of the mike cutting through your corrupted thoughts. “Pretty Hurts”, are the first two words the third contestant sings. You’re rammed with the depressing realization that this is your reality. Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts” music video is about a pageant girl who has been competing in pageants for a very long time. She’s won hundreds of trophies but is still unhappy and unsatisfied with the way she looks. She has done many drastic things, even jeopardizing her health to win pageants to prove that…

isn’t trashy I’m not sure what would qualify as that. Picture this, a man walks up and is drunk out of his mind he sets his sights on a young woman across the bar. Realize men like this are relentless, they never give up. He will constantly tell the girl how gorgeous she is, and how she shouldn’t be all by herself. Even if she refuses him over and over he continues to come back. It’s like beating a dead horse. This just goes to show that this man has no class, and acts a lot like trash. Then…

woman sporting lingerie, a group of ladies at upscale restaurant talking loudly, eating as they please without regard to the onlookers, one onlooker being a little girl, a woman leading a business meeting to a group of men, women wearing short hairstyles, and a woman with muscles wearing a dress. According to our text “Media...represents girls and women as young, thin, beautiful, passive, dependent, and often incompetent (pg. 171). This commercial calls to question two theories in our reading,…