Teenage Girl Crush

Melanin. When I was younger, it was the little things that affected me: people thinking like my curly hair as an alien compound, or girls asking me in dance class why my tights did not match the color of my legs. As I got older, it was the blatantly awkward moments that affected me: the way my peers seemed to stare when the topic of “race” was mentioned, or people making ignorant assumptions about my interracial family. Today, these moments are nonexistent in comparison to reality. Today, it’s…

family did not have internet; I could have really used google. I had to resort to calling my mom and having her remove it. It was quite humiliating for a girl that felt so grown up just an hour ago. She quietly showed me the pads and suggested I use them until I got a bit older. Northrup, in her column, "The Body at Puberty," recommends girls use pads initially until her periods become more regular. She goes on to discuss the rapid growth the cervix undergoes and that tampons may cause…

Kari and Matilda “The best accessory a girl can own is confidence. (Anonymous)”, this is a quote that clearly defines Matilda and Kari in “Jack-Jack Attack” and Matilda. That quote describes Matilda when she uses her magical powers and Kari when she was sure of her babysitting abilities. In the movie Matilda, the main character, Matilda, used her magical powers to help people at a school with an evil principal by the name of Mrs. Trunchbull. Kari, from “Jack-Jack Attack”, babysat a little baby…

Last week, as I was walking around Somerset, in search for dress I could wear to attend a wedding… a slim, beautiful, tall and well-dressed lady approached me right outside the train station, before I was able to cross the road. Initially, I waved my hand at her in a manner to show my disinterests. However, she persisted and asked if she could just have 5 minutes of my time. The lady, who then address herself as Jenny then begin to make small talks with me and asks for my name. After that has…

Is this what you really want and expect a toddler to go through? Your toddler to go through? A long weekend of hairdos, makeup, costumes and gowns? Approximately 250,000 children participate in child beauty pageants each year. Surely not all these girls will get 1st place, so is the effort and low self-esteem as a result healthy for a child’s well-being? I certainly don’t think so. I will be discussing about how beauty pageants are damaging to a child’s self-esteem, how you can develop an eating…

Thai Woman vs. American Women 
“Girls have an unfair advantage over men; if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.”
Yul Brynner
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I once received a message through my YouTube channel asking my opinion on how Thai women compare with American women. “What are the Thai women like...are they like American women? I see a lot of American men finding wives there...how hard is it?” 
Another male dumbfounded by women. Aren’t all men stupefied by women? 
Now this…

In “The Harlem Dancer,” Claude McKay describes a woman who is performing to a crowd of youths through the eyes of an audience member. The narrator seems to be explaining everything that has to do with her body and appearance, rather than what she is actually thinking. He later realizes that she is unhappy while performing, though it is still unknown as to what the dancer is thinking. The use of tone and diction reveals that she is actually distancing herself from her reality due the traumatic…

The use of the three components of the advertisement listed by Roland Barthes in his essay “Rhetoric of the Image” are linguistics, uncoded message, and coded message. All three of these are used to entice the target audience of women to drink this beverage because of the overlapping message that tall and skinny is desirable based on our society’s culture. Through the use of many aspects, such as color choice and syntax, this advertisement can change the way the product is received and how well…

“People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles” (“Grace Farrell”). Women and men were assigned specific jobs and were told at a young age what their futures should look like. Women were taught to be beautiful and dependent on a man. Men were taught to be strong and have authority. Society is accepting for men to take on many mistresses, while not for women. Gender roles are a set of rules containing the social norms in the society specifically made for each gender. In the 1920’s,…

about gender roles, “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munroe reveals the story of a nonconformist girl (whose name is intentionally omitted) and her confrontation with the dominance of the male in the house and females obedience. The 10 years-old unnamed girl protagonist grows up in a fox farm in Jubilee, Canada back in 1940s along with her younger brother, named Laird ( from Lord) and her father, whom she is helping with the farm and the mother who wants her to be a traditional girl that wears dresses…