The Other Girl

are women and girls. When advertisements showcase impossibly flawless women it is very toxic. Advertising features perfect women that do not exist. Although these impeccably beautiful women are not real, they set the beauty standards for society. These standards include having a small waist but also being curvy in the “right” places. To have clear, glowing skin free from acne and scars. To have beautiful silky hair and the list goes on. From an early age, the expectations for girls to be these…

Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Karen Russell, the author, shows the unity of the wolf-raised girls as they were so close together, until their unity later disintegrated as each character distinguished themselves as separate entities instead of one character. Near the end, these girls reunite towards a new culture: our culture. This all happens throughout the three stages of the assimilation process, in which Karen subtly presents this essential information by showing these girls…

In the bluest eye a little girl receives a doll for Christmas that she doesn’t want. Throughout the story she complains about the expectations placed on her and rebels by treating the doll and others differently than the way people expect her to. Toni Morrison uses the Christmas gift, the doll, to highlight what she perceives to be proof that gender is socially constructed and is used to control women. When the little girl receives the doll for Christmas she is unsure how to act towards it and…

opens up his article by addressing the “kick-ass culture,” while Orenstein focuses on how princesses have diminished the feeling of confidence and independence that young girls should experience. While some may believe that princesses show the younger generation that females possess the ability to accomplish anything a male can, others believe that this trend aggressively encourages the idea of “perfection” in our modern society. Both “The Princess Paradox” and “Cinderella and Princess Culture”…

world, fake hair, fake tan, plastered in makeup, and even fake nails? How would you like it if you were shoved in skimpy outfit after skimpy outfit and had to strut around a stage with it on? Would you have fun with your mother, father, coach, and other relatives putting constant pressure on you to be the best, to be perfect? Imagine all this while still trying to be a child, running around in mix matched clothes and making mud pies out back. But let us go even farther. Think about growing up…

working, one day three teenage girls who live about 5 miles outside the town close to the beach, walk in the grocery store in just their bathing suits catching Sammy’s as well the eyes of all the other employees and patrons. Sammy is upset about the manager of the store, Mr. Lengel, when he embarrasses the girls by abruptly informing them of the dress code and how they are violating the rules which are the social norms of this specific culture. Sammy identifies with the girls in some way and…

“Who said girls want to dress in pink and play with dolls?” (Miller, 2013). Girls aren’t given the option to choose what they want. For instance, girls are pushed into liking pink and playing with Barbie’s because “that’s what girls do”. When a girl is seen playing with boy toys, they are automatically thought as tomboyish or masculine. However, that is not the case. The toys that are created for girls to play with are very sexist. Most toys are like vacuums, kitchen toys, dolls while the on the…

also left her impaired speech problems with Nell who knew no other pronunciation of English. As the relationships with the doctors and Nell develop, it becomes apparent that both Lovell and Olson have social issues as well and care about Nell because of their similarities. After taking Nell to the local town to show her the modern world, word gets around of a “wild woman” living in the woods. It is not long before reporters and others become a threat to Nell’s wellbeing. In order to escape the…

gang. It can be argued that girls can take on the typical role of male gang members. Written in the Centre for Social Justice the children’s commissioner uses the term ‘Gangster Girl’ to describe a girl who takes on the male personas within gangs (2014). Therefore showing that females are just as much able to run their own gang on the same or similar level to males. Back in 2013, ‘The Independent’ published an online article written by Chloe Combi on ‘The real bad girls- an extraordinary insight…

The title of the story is So I Ain’t No Good Girl. The girl (the main character) is at a bus stop while saying mean things about other girls because they are too plain and pitiful. Her boyfriend, Raheem, comes and wants him back after a redhead girl tries to steal him. He keeps fighting the main character and looking at other girls. So they get on the bus except for Raheem and the girl he’s been hitting on. On the bus, the girl decides to leave that alone and just go to school. In my…