The Skinny

Nerd, geek, emo, gothic? How many of you have heard someone use these phrases or said them yourself? The sad truth is, stereotypes are very common in society. Hello everyone, today I will be talking to you about the negative effects of stereotyping. I will be mentioning what stereotypes are, their impact on people and society and the media’s influence. Stereotypes are mental pictures and thoughts that exist in an individual’s mind when they look out into their social world. A stereotype is a…

or surfing the internet it is all we see are airbrushed images of perfect bodies of women. Ladies need to live up to insane possibilities and deal with advertisements that corrupt and undermined the female body. Since when starving yourself to be skinny was okay. Many people in this world have their own definition of what beauty is. We surmise that beauty originates from magazines or video girls or even models. I refused to let society determine my worth. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,…

Sexism effects a vast majority of our world’s population, in different ways. One perspective of this is the stereotype of women being portrayed as objects, through social media. In the documentary MissRepresentation, I noticed that men dominate the world and it is time for women to also have key roles in society. The media is the biggest social network that is used in our world today and thousands of people are influenced by it. I myself being girl, have noticed that the media objectifies women…

months, and I try to fit on the clothes that I used to wear. I fell frustrated and bad with myself because I wanted to be the same young girl, skinny and charm but with a baby. After four years I’m weighting 110 pounds, and the ironic thing is that I didn’t do anything to lose weight. I think it because it a genetic thing, my 3 sisters and brother are skinny, they weigh 120-130 pounds, and they eat what ever they want and don’t do anything to be thin, me neither. Something has to do with your…

People often judge others because of their weight, but if we look towards reality our weight does not determine our health, so why discriminate. Girls are told they have a pretty face, but they would be prettier if they would skinny. Skinny does not make people pretty, if we let social dictate how we see ourselves we are always going to be unhappy. Women want to look like the girls in the magazine, when the girl on the magazine does not even like the girl on the magazine. As women we let society…

It is hard to imagine a world with no Starbucks and skinny vanilla lattes. Starbucks is such a prominent company that people across the world cannot go a day without. However, they did not experience such success in the 2000s. They had to put soul and compassion into every cup of coffee in order to get where they are today. In one of their most trying periods, Starbucks had to permanently close 600 stores. In the closing of the stores, I was surprised by how emotionally attached people got to…

to the Bone’: The Historical Context for Women’s Obsession with Slenderness,” author Roberta Seid proclaims that the health of society today is measured by appearance and attitude towards food and eating. Seid stresses that the obsession over being skinny and how the obsession is fueled by fashion and society. She warns that this obsession can lead to anorexia and she fears that many are okay with that. In the article, “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance,” author Mary Ray Worley…

have looked at advertisements with skinny beautiful women and wondered “why don’t I look like her?” Victoria Secret is a well-known brand amongst a lot of young women. It is nationally known for their “angels.” The “angels” are a group of woman who are beautiful and super skinny. In late 2014 Victoria Secret put out a campaign with ten of the angels. The campaign was supposed to broadcast “The Perfect Body”. The ten models on the advertisement were very skinny and tall. When this…

girls. Another example is that in the poem, it says “Her good nature wore out like a fan belt” (Piercy 16-17). To put it differently, this is a simile, saying that the “girlchild” in the poem is tired of how everyone wants her to look beautiful and skinny. This relates and makes up the theme because after the girl killed herself when she could not take the pressure anymore, it emphasizes that society’s expectations can be dangerous. On the whole, the figurative language in this poem helps make…

During the “Target Scavenger Hunt” assignment, my perspective of gender has been expanded on what society thinks about gender. In general, Target separate the products into different categories, so the products could easily be found. In other words, the way they organize the stores is to appeal and advertise consumers to buying the items. For example, like Daniel had said in class, women’s clothes would appear first before any other clothing because women/mothers looks for clothes than men would…