The Other Girl

Peggy Orenstein from Society Pages wrote, “Girls who played with Barbie thought they could do fewer jobs than boys could do. But girls who played with Mrs. Potato Head reported nearly the same number of possible careers for themselves and for boys.” This shows how when Barbie has a career, such as a nurse, fashion designer, or mom that it…

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…

writer and English professor. She has written novels and shorts stories, like “The Moths” which is included in her collection of”The Moths and Other Stories.” The Moths is a coming-of-age story about a 14 year old girl who takes care of her sick abuelita. The characters of the story are the mom, the father, the girl’s older sisters, and the narrator which is the girl. The narrator is described as being different, unlike her older sisters she is selfish, disrespectful, she is not girly and has…

I Once Met a Diabetic Named Laura In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s, “The Myth of the Latin Women: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”, Cofer is talking about how hard it is to be a Latina girl and not get stereotyped in the process. Many people can relate to this because of the multiple ways to be stereotyped such as a jock, a nerd, or a hipster.. This is something I can personally relate to because, of the many people stereotyping young kids and adults with diabetes. In this paper I will be showing you how…

she is able to succeed and meets a prince along the way, gets married and lives happily ever after. Just supposed an African American girl sees the movie, she would immediately associate herself with the princess and believe that if she works hard her dreams could come true and most likely she too could get married to a prince and live happily ever after. On the other hand, a little boy that watched that same movie wouldn’t typically associate himself as much with The Princess and the Frog…

clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry.”( pg 56) This quote came from Jamaica Kincaid short story “Girl”. If a parent of this present day, told their children to do that, the child would probably just stand there and question them why. Well the girl in this story could not even get one word out to question the mother let alone only two sentences throughout the whole story. In the eyes of most islanders this is a…

of Society Slut Shaming or Sexualizing Young Girls? “Girls may not only experience feelings of shame due to being sexualized, but they may also develop eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression” (Sexualization 1). This issue, Body Image, has been even more of an issue to our generation and should be addressed more than it is currently being addressed. Body image is a very serious topic because the way we see each other and criticize each other, has an effect mentally and physically.…

Many young girls are posing in front of cameras at ages as young as 9 and 10 in chest revealing animal print outfits. With teased hair and explicit makeup, moms are being forced and told that their daughters need to have carved abs sprayed on with a bronzer just before they go out and perform explicit dances that have many gasping in wonders as to why young girls are being forced and allowed to give their selves out like that. What happened to innocent, playful young women? There is a real issue…

Guerrilla girls The contemporary poster “Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the MET Mueseum,” (1989) was made by the Guerilla girls in response to the conscious and unconscious discrimination in the art world at the time. The Guerrilla Girls are intersectional feminist activist artists who since their inception have underminde the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory and subtext in order to expose bad behaviour in the art world. Working collaboratively as a group to…

I grew up in a white family of five people. I have two siblings both boys and older than I. At a very young age I was taught that girls belong in the house cooking and cleaning and boys belong outside. Both my parents worked very long days and very long weeks. When I was old enough to clean the house I was given chores that needed to be completed every day my brothers didn’t have to do anything around the house. We lived in a quiet neighborhood where all the kids would play together, but I was…