Mean Girls

Bra Essay From puberty until death women must wear a bra (unless they are #freetheniple). Adolescents wear a training bra, then when they become teenagers they get the padded bras with the lace and vibrant colors until they finally graduate to mom boobs, which gets them a mom bra. The one with all the straps, little padding and great support. Each and every single bra a female buys represent her in a way, is she bold, or is she meek? A secret freak or conservative? Bras are every woman and can…

Section One: All over the world there are countless little girls who aspire to become different things in life. The little Asian girl down the street wants to be a Veterinarian. There is a little Caucasian girl in California who wants to be an Olympic volleyball player. There is a little girl in Ireland who wants nothing more than to be an opera singer. And in Louisiana there is a little Black girl who wants to be the girl you see in the music videos. Hip Hop in its entirety is a global…

Growing up is a part of life, we all go through it. In the book, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, a very different perspective on how life is for a young girl, Pecola is shown. Pecola is in the process of growing up and encounters various challenges as she is faced with a new side of the world. With these challenges, she matures and actually learns from all of this. Morrison shows how Pecola changes mentally and physically to understand who she truly is as a person. In the beginning, Pecola…

Seamstress, and Alice Munro's Boys and Girls, the young girls in each writing live in different cultures and parts of the world, but all the girls face gender discrimination in their own home or country and choose to rebel against the stereotypical norms. Marjane, The Little Seamstress, and the girl from boys and girls live in a time era and places that don't except strong, willful women. With the help of there family or their persistent attitude the young girls are able to reject the norms set…

that one guy who asked me that question got surprised to hear what I said and he answered that he is glad that I am not crazy and all. Yes, I admit that few feminists may employ unethical methods for their voices to be heard, but it certainly does not mean women have to fear to be judged because they are feminists too. Whether women want it or not, they are all feminists at some point or another. Identifying with the feminism movement, women are giving value to themselves and therefore proving…

include some form of target on appearance. Young women experience unhappiness with their bodies, negative behaviors towards their health, and an increased focus on appearance in advertisements compared to males. The media's focus on adolescent girls has drastically lowered body satisfaction. Advertisements have created what is know as "the new normal" by hiring models with unreal body types and using the infamous program, photoshop. "Adolescent Health" stated, "Fashion models weigh 23 percent…

up after a class activity when a girl came up to me. She said this: “You’re Indian, why don’t you go back to your Indian school?” At first, I thought that this is just a little girl at a young age where kids don’t really know what they are saying. The next time something like this happened, was in second grade at lunch. My friend, Gabby, was telling me about her vacation to New York when I heard giggles coming from the opposite end of the table. A bunch of girls and boys were pointing fingers…

We as a society need to encourage more young girls and women to take an interest in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In 2009, 48% of the United States workforce was comprised of women while 52% comprised of men (Kimmel et al, 2012). While the slight deviation in percentage seems small, when STEM field jobs were looked at in particular, it was realized that that 76% of the STEM jobs are held be men while women only held on to 24% (Szelényi et al, 2013). In…

genre treats women and men differently to the point where they are classified as either the ‘good girl’ or the ‘bad girl’ and punished accordingly (Weaver, Ménard, Cabrera, & Taylor 2013 pg. 3). Women are punished for sex in this genre, while men are more than often rewarded, although both suffer a similar fate in the end (Weaver, Ménard, Cabrera, & Taylor 2013 pg. 3). But as time has gone on, the ‘final girl’ who started out as the virginal, pure, and feminine survivor has turned into something…

“Screamer looks like an aging high-dollar call girl, which she probably is. Cameron is nothing but class” (Grisham 98). One can understand why Cameron initially held a grudge against Screamer as a young girl with a freshly broken heart, but after the years of dealing with the pain and growing into the brilliant woman Neely met days before Rake’s funeral, one can hope that she…