The Other Girl

with a cut off shirt on revealing his body. A highschool girl walks in the same class wearing a spaghetti strap tank top but gets dress coded. What is the difference between the two? Boys have close to no dress codes while girls are expected to cover up their body. Girls who wear spaghetti straps feel confident about their bodies enough to wear it, why should we shut them down? They say boys could get easily distracted by a girl’s body but, girls can get just as distracted. Teachers are being…

75% of girls have admitted to engaging in body shaming. 61% percent of teen girls have said they talk bad about their bodies. You may be wondering why this is. This is because girls have too much pressure on them to have perfect bodies. Girls believe they have to because being “perfect” is what many boys look for which causes girls to get compliments on how they look, so they won’t get made fun of. The first reason for why girls have too much pressure on them to have perfect bodies is…

Updike and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid there is so many things that can to be talked about. Both stories come to a point where they are alike in many ways, but they differ from one another also. Similarities can be found throughout these both stories, elements are theme, character, author, and feeling. In “A&P” there is a young man who is a cashier, and focuses on three girls that walk into the store. He describes what they are wearing, and criticizes how they look. There is also a mother in…

very attractive women in provocative positions with little to no clothing. Most of the women in these ads are extremely thin with flawless skin and a perfect hair. Women can sometimes be their own worst enemy. A lot of women compare themselves to other women and sometimes they have unrealistic expectation of what really beauty is. Most if not all print ads are photo shopped to make the women in them appear thinner and give them flawless skin. These ads usually push the importance of physical…

One example includes how multiple girls are allowed to participate in boy’s football while boys are not allowed to play girl’s sports. Various reasons might cause this from saying that boys are too aggressive in sports, that boys are usually bigger and stronger than girls at this stage, or it also might be that schools view boys as athletically superior to girls which has no place in America. The saying “boys will be boys” also equates to sports. Claiming that girls can join boy’s football…

children, on average, spend seven hours and thirty-eight minutes of entertainment each day. By allowing children to spend ceremonious amounts of time watching the same sorts of oversexualized, one-dimensional female character, we deprive both boys and girls. It is okay to have female characters who have lower class jobs, or are sexually aware, it should be important for the storyline to have her in this role. Not because the male character has to have the dominant position of power. If…

St Lucy’s Home for Girls is a safe haven for warewolf girls to learn and change into better humans. Claudette, a student at St Lucy's Home For Girls follows the nuns curriculum closely but sometimes she strays from it. This short story written by Karen Russell follows three girls as they learn please and adapt to their new way of living, all of them heading in separate directions. In the beginning of claudettes journey everything is new and different however She shortly learns that hard work is…

experience. The Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro, introduces the story of a girl named Del growing into a woman. Del is a young girl who is primarily raised by her mother. Del explores her sexuality, her religious beliefs, her sense of self-empowerment, and the function of gender in society. Housekeeping, written by Marilynne Robinson, is about the life of a young girl named Ruthie and her subtle transformation into a woman. Ruth is a seemingly odd and plain girl who takes little…

Chicago head coach, Girls should play football for the NFL. There as good as boys and as tuff as boys too. I don’t think people should treat them different because there a girl. A girl can tackle just like a guy and be as strong as a guy. If you ask me girls are no different from guys the only thing that is different is body parts. If the NFL would give girls a chance to try out they could be better than the boys that play. Guys don’t think girls should play because there girls and not tuff.…

Gender equality has always been a dilemma, women, especially during the Romantic Era, were not seen as intellectual and did not have the same rights as men. Women were looked upon, criticized, and labeled as “Bluestockings” if they were to be involved in something that was not related to contributing to their households (Greenblatt 9). In the works, We are Seven by William Wordsworth, The Thorn by Wordsworth, and The Poor Singing Dame by Mary Robinson, we are able to see how women were treated…