Mean Girls

unfeminine. Without it she was, in fact, no woman at all, but a member of some lower order’” (154). Being submissive means one has to be quite when things happen and has to obey orders (741). Women of a cult were the women who wanted their true virtues to mean something and fought to keep their virtues during a time in history when the world fought to take it away. Using the Incidents of a Slave Girl to demonstrate the value of womanhood demonstrated a quality of true womanhood no matter of…

This description alone is enough to warrant some type of worry about the boy. He describes the girls that walk in, as if he has never laid his eyes on a girl before in his life. He does this throughout the story. He follows each of their movement and never takes his eyes off of them. He like the boy in Araby just totally disregards everything except for the three females in the store. Now before I go judging the protagonist for his action, I will first admit I am guilty of staring at attractive…

little girl. As children grow up, we just blindly accept these gender roles, as they become part our lives. Society seems to simply accept these gender roles that coincide with the sex of children, but people never ask why? The activities that children participate in, the media that children see and the influences of parents and particular cultures contribute to our definition of gender. Children are given these activities such as playing a sport for boys or dressing up as a princess for girls…

conversation started at home before the beauty industry influences young girls. Right at the beginning of the advertisement you see a girl sitting at a park, touching her hair, and is alone. She says she wishes she had straight hair. Being alone symbolizes isolation. She will feel isolated from everyone else until she fits the beauty standards. She will not have friends until she makes herself beautiful. Perfection is something this girl strives for but can’t achieve it unless she changes the…

to return. This philosophy is one of the things that led to me to develop an interest in osteopathy. After meeting my current mentor, Dr. Julian Uselman, a DO practicing family medicine in Silverton, OR, we have corresponded extensively on what it means to practice as an osteopathic physician.…

inequality? Objectification means treating a person as a commodity or an object without regard to their personality or dignity. In today’s society objectification, of women especially, is treated as the norm and accepted as a part of everyday life. This creates a harmful ideology for young girls as they grow up with it all around them at all times. It is also harmful for women trying to get further in life and…

offered an opportunity to pick up any sort of ball. As time went on women began to gain more and more opportunity. When Title IX was passed in 1972, there was about 300 thousand girls competing in high school sports. After revolutionizing sports, according to motherjones.com, in 2011 girls participation rose to 3.2 million girls. Many highs schools have a women’s sport for every men’s sport. This is mandatory to abide by Title IX. As the years go on women become more of a norm in sports. Women…

have played a large role in shaping the way dating is today. When with the other gender one always tries to impress them because one never knows where they might end up in the future. It is human nature for one to want to be liked by everyone. Since girls were young they have been around romance movies such Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lady and the Tramp. These movies were watched endlessly by my sister and I when we were younger and they showed us what we wanted when we were…

Someone had stolen my sneakers AND my socks when I was in the shower. I hope you will not judge me if I told you that this incident had inadvertently caused me to loose faith in the Human Race. Now, It does not mean that I think people are not decent. I mean, I still believe people have basic decency, like not cut you in line or apologize if they bump into you, but when no one is looking, people cannot be trusted. Now that you understand, if not agree with, my beliefs, let me tell…

over women. Also, Glen Oaks is not only promoting there cheap and durable slacks, but their "meta" ,message that they are trying to convey to the young men that are their audience is "buy our pants, get with any girl, and have sex with her even if she doesn 't want to. Do this a number of girls because you can. You 're in control". Summed up, do whatever is necessary to have sex. "Battery is the single greatest cause of injury to women in America" and if women are weak and defenseless as seen in…