The Skinny

representations in Ugly Betty. I will divide the rest of my article into three sections. In the first section, I explore mainstream beauty standards and stereotypes portrayed in American television. The show’s depiction of the leading roles are mostly skinny women wearing fashion brand clothing and makeup. The appearance of the characters draws upon the stereotypes of women’s beauty. Next, I apply contextual analysis of mental and physical illness of women on my discussion of the negative…

The size of the antelope’s head has a long symmetrical structure that is 14 5/8 inches long, and the based of the mask stretch a few inches wider than the antelope’s head to fit a human size face. The material is made out of a dark and warm-brown wood. It is smooth, and is faddily shiny on the mask. Starting from the top of the mask shows two long drilled horns that are straight and pointed. The length of the mask’s horns is not as long as the original antelope’s horns, yet it has a similar size…

Be-you-tiful Throughout my life I have had people tell me, “Be-You-tiful”. As I get older I see more items in all forms of media about being skinny and pretty. Media makes it harder to be me, because I want to look similar to celebrities with perfect skin and expensive clothes. There has been moments in my life when I have forgotten about what people have told me - be-you-tiful. Everyone is beautiful in their own unique way, but media believes otherwise. Media is a harmful instrument used to…

objects in life, Esperanza discovers inspiration in four skinny trees that are planted on the sidewalk in concrete in front of her house, “Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine. Four who do not belong here but are here… They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger” (75). These four trees are described as “skinny,” with “skinny necks and pointy elbows” like Esperanza, which…

From Barack Obama to The Ramones, from John Wayne to a common criminal, from hippies to high fashion model, denim is as American as baseball and apple pie. It always seems to find its way back into style. Rudei Karrer, the curator, of the denim museum in Zurich, Switzerland, Ruedi Karrer, is not into denim as in terms of style trends and fashion but he just loves denim. Karrer is more evolved with the history of denim as well as running this museum. “Denim is one of the world’s most popular…

people are not only losing their confidence but also being afraid of standing in front of people or encountering people. The author stated that the young girls are influenced on the images of skinny women even if they do not want to be because they are insecure about their appearance when they are not skinny (Bowdon). Although teenagers’ body seems slim and thin enough, they are not satisfied with their bodies. Thus, teenagers are not confident about their looks because they believe that they…

room thinking to herself about her love, she says “He could not see me because I was just a skinny Puerto Rican girl … my heart knocked against my bony chest” (Cofer, 184). This quote displays how the narrator is self-conscious because throughout the short story the narrator criticizes herself on her physical body. As she says that “He could not see [her]” because she was skinny, she feels that being skinny is not appealing to society or to make one noticeable in society making her…

judged in the world and I get judged quite a bit as well. One thing that I get labeled on is my size. I am a skinny scrawny guy, so it is easy to make the assumption that I am not tough or that I can not speak for myself. I also get labeled a lot for being dumb, I say a lot of stupid things to make a lot of people laugh so a lot of people assume I am dumb. In reality I am a skinny guy but I am pretty tough I don’t let a lot of things bother me and I when I get hurt or shaken up a…

For too many girls, being "model thin" is a very real aspiration, and it starts at a disturbingly young age. In 2015, a new study from Common Sense Media made headlines by reporting that 80% of 10-year-old girls have been on a diet. There is too much pressure on young girls to have the “perfect body.” Most teenage girls these days have very low self-esteem and a bad body image. This “ideal.” body that society has pushed onto not just teenagers but young kids as well. Is saddening. It…

panties that the appliance manager and the delivery guy used to guess Patty’s age show the kind of mindset they have for women. As they were making Patty feel harassed by deciding about the stuff of panties, the delivery guy gave a description “The skinny ones wear little nylon bikinis. Maybe with ‘Tuesday’ embroidered on them.” The…