The Little Girl

I have not written in my journal since I was a little girl, but I feel that it would help me clear my head of the pain I experience every day. It is excruciating, yet most of my suffering lies within myself. When the story of Snow White is read to little boys and girls, it does not take long for them to understand that I am a malevolent villain. Being considered "The Evil Queen," it is easy to believe that I try to rid the world of goodness. Barely anybody even knows my name, which happens to be…

teeth.” The last advertisement is a commercial from this October of this year. It is titled, the story of Sarah and Juan. It is a love story of a boy and girl starting in high school. It takes you through their love story moment by moment from when they first lock eyes until when he proposes. At different times through their blossoming romance, the girl would give the boy a piece of extra gum and each time the boy would save the wrapper and draw a picture of the what they were doing at that…

Gender roles: What are we teaching our daughters? Have you ever watched a little girl play house? Even as young as pre school age, girls are well aware that she is the one staying home taking care of the baby while the husband goes to work. She cooks and cleans and has dinner ready when the husband returns from work. Gender stereotyping begins the second a babys gender is found out. As soon as we find out that it’s a girl, we immediately begin decorating the nursery filled with pink décor…

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,…

which society considers beautiful. It is deductive by all types of marketing that beauty equals colored eye, skinny body, and flawless skin. Since a young age, girls try to acquire those qualities, in the absence of these, low self-stem and depression are regularly common. Most movies, TV shows and magazines portray that physically attractive girls and guys are known as beautiful, desirable and popular; on the other side those individuals who don’t meet society’s standards of “beauty” are teased…

determine our gender in the eyes of society and it is what limits the opportunity of improvement for men and women. Little girls and little boys start to develop gender identity at a very early age, when they start engaging in self-categorization (Sapiro 1998). This is when girls and boys start to fit in and seek help from parents and society as to where they belong. Gender is how girls and boys categorize themselves…

with this distinction that dolls are for girls, and that trucks or guns are meant to be for boys. No, these ideals are established in their heads from what toys they interact with as a child, and the clothes that they wore. When walking into the toy section of a store, you are either overwhelmed by the amount of pink and other bright colors or by the darker colors, which distinguishes whether it’s supposed to be for girls or boys. Throughout the colorful girl aisles, there are dolls, along…

that parents should hide anything inappropriate from their young girls, or modify the media to make girls seem more “powerful” than they are represented as. While parents and their daughters are integral for presenting women as more than sex objects, this movement should include schools, the media, stores, or anything that a girl might potentially interact with. Hiding from the truth is not making anything better, but it is making girls ignorant of the world around them. If a young woman goes…

are less likely to cross gender lines than girls” (Auster & Mansbach 2012, 375). However, in some cases this can lead to a patriarchal like reproduction in gender neutral toys. For example, at Target, the “Melissa and Doug” brand has several gender neutral toys. Among them there are six dress up outfits with a picture of a little boy and a little girl wearing the outfits to signify their gender neutrality. If it wasn’t for the picture of the little girl wearing the outfits as well it would seem…

usually separated between boys, girls, and for all genders. You can tell by the color of the aisle. The girl aisle was mostly done in pink and purple. The boy aisle was mostly done with blue and green. I even noticed that the writing on the packages were even different. The girl toys had a more feminine writing and the boy toys were in a bold, manly writing. The girl toys usually had a picture of a girl playing with the toy and with the boy toys they had a little boy playing with it. For both…