The Powerpuff Girls

what is the influence the media is having on these young girls? media displays the perfect women in their heads, influencing their preference on body type as well as providing them with poor choices for role models. Through time the media has changed the standard for what the “perfect” woman looks like. Todays choice for beauty is to be thin. Thin women are displayed for advertisement and are the very celebrities which many…

Why Females Develop a Low Self-esteem when Neglected Over 40% of girls have self-confidence when they are 6th-grade, but this number plummets down to about 12% by the time they are in 10th-grade (Paquette). Girls are more likely to perform better than boys when they begin schooling. This potential gradually gets overshadowed by numerous life concerns as girls continue to grow up. Their academic levels slowly drop, and they soon start focusing on pleasing the society. Although all human beings…

Did you know that during 2006 the ratio of girls to boys playing videogames was 38:62? In addition, over the past 8 years it has it has increased to 48:52. Even though the gaming community has always been a place for girls just as much as boys, there is still a lot of sexism in it. It has been said that by next year women will become the majority in the gaming community. Sexism in videogames is posing a problem in many more ways than one. It has created hostile gaming environments, overly…

Jamaica Kincaid, the author of the short story “Girl,” was raised on the island of Antigua. During the time in which she was raised, Antigua was influenced by the British government. Because of the British control, Kincaid was raised in a culture immersed in the ideals of oppression and slavery. Being an African American woman in Antigua during the rule of the British government influenced how she wrote later in life. She eventually moved to America and landed a job as a writer for The New…

studying at a friends house and when it started to become dark, the girls were constantly checking their phones because we all had curfews and were expected to be home at a certain time. In the other hand, the guys seemed to not worry about time since their parents were less worried about them and let them stay out late at night. I understand that it is dangerous for young teenagers to be out late but why is it that even though a boy and a girl are both young they are treated way differently.…

A common trend between the messages was also observed. Many of the girls’ cards used words such as “perfect”, “pretty”, and “cute”. They also contained a lot of play on words including substituting “fairy for the word “very” or “purr-fect” instead of “perfect”. These trends with the messages on girls’ cards correlated with stereotypical conceptions that girls are supposed to be fragile and sweet, but smarter than boys, which is why a lot of the cards contain a…

her. In return, she becomes apathetic towards him. The man is selfish, and he does not consider the lady’s feelings. The man thinks he can treat her anyhow he chooses because he is a male and she is nothing but a female. Also, the story “Boys and girls”…

grows up within the inner city of Philadelphia, they must be content with external forces in order to fit in with the social organization of life and violence. In the book, Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City by Cindy D. Ness insightfully talks about the street fights within low income areas between young girls. When young women are in a situation where violence could break out, they are given the choice to step up or back off. Violence for these young women living in the…

turned and ran when the gang returned to the building, not one making a sound or move to check on the black and blue form lying just outside. Something inside Michael twisted and began to coil. The door shut, and a vulture cast its shadow on the broken girl as it flew overhead. Minutes passed; the lights inside Farside turned off. The coil tightened. Seconds more and Michael finally approached the gasping child, breath leaving him as he gazed down at the girl’s face. Not a single inch of skin…

only making $1,172,400” (Women’s Sport Foundation, 2015). In the article “The Role of Sport in Addressing Gender Issues” (2013), women and girls’ health and well-being is positively affected by physical activity. Studies have shown that females are not as likely to display risky sexual behavior, experiment with drugs, or have as many sexual partners as that of a girl who is not physically active. The research also shows that gender specific disorders like osteoporosis bone disorders, fractures,…