Odd Girl Out

“When’s it my turn?” Young girls are growing up in a society that really plays with their minds and a society that judges them every second. Women get judged for being too manly or masculine, but women also want to have strength. Neghar Fonooni wrote an article called “Why ‘Feminine’ and ‘Masculine’ Should Not Imply Weak or Strong,” it talks about how there shouldn’t be a difference between femininity and masculinity, and how women should always feel empowered. “When Bright Girls Decide That…

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…

the girl who gave up her voice for a man she had only seen once, and Belle the girl who stayed with her abusive partner out of fear. Disney has created films that represent woman as weak, male dependant, and uneducated. Being a woman in society you should be strong, independent, and intelligent three things that according to Disney films aren 't relevant in the life if a female. Disney’s target audience appeals to the ages of four to eleven. This is the age where young people, especially girls…

titled “Teach girls bravery, not perfection.” Reshma Saujani is an Indian woman who decide to run for congress when she was thirty-three even though the odds were against her. Reshma Saujani did not win the vote but the risk she took inspired her speech and her coding organization. Reshma Saujani believes that girls are scared to take risks. In fact, the purpose of her speech is to raise awareness about how girls are being taught perfection instead of bravery. She believes since girls are…

guys who called themselves the T-Birds and who held themselves higher than anyone else and prided themselves on how many girls they could “get with”. Sandy Olsson was an innocent, sweet girl who moved to Venice, California and attended…

Walt Disney World seems like an odd place to find an aspiring doctor. All of my fellow College Program interns were performers or business majors. When I told people what I was studying, they always had the same question: "What are you doing here?" My shadowing and prior experience with medicine during college convinced me that the most important skill physicians could have was the ability to relate to their patients with compassion and empathy. In pursuit of the ability to connect with people,…

lingerie or a make-up line for girls and teens. Now stores are targeting all of theses things for younger girls making them grow up so fast or look like they are grown. I remember having my eight-year-old niece over and when she arrived to my house her face was full of makeup and she was wearing a bra under her little tank top and her booty shorts. I wiped her face off with a wet towel and told her she was to young to wear makeup and that she should be a little girl and enjoy it. I also told my…

The novel Sold, by Patricia McCormick, follows a young girl, Lakshmi, a thirteen year old girl, and her family living in a small village in Nepal struggling to make ends meet. Lakshmi’s biological father has died so her mother remarries an alcoholic but it is considered that any man is better than no man at all. When the Himalayan monsoons destroy her family's crops, Lakshmi’s step-father meets a woman who claims she will take Lakshmi to be a maid in the city, and he sends her away. After what…

the only girl allowed to play with the boys as I was related to their ‘leader’. When I was little, my cousin, who was a grade older than me, was sort of like the leader of the few boys we had our split class. I never realized that I was being treated differently from all the other girls in my class. My classmates seemed to simply accepted the fact that I was the only girl allowed to play with the boys – and it did not occur to me that I was the only one given that I played with the girls as…

that lacked many experiences, which ties in with Junot Diaz’s short story “How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)”. Not only did Yunior lack the experience, he also didn’t want anyone to know of the relationship he had with Miss Lora. Yunior would go as far as to sneak out of his apartment at 3 o’clock in the morning, in like manner to the main character in “How to date a brown girl” he was afraid of the reaction he would ultimately receive once his illicit affair was…