This One's for the Girls

Koivula’s study points out the evidence of the impact of social construction of male-female relations that maintain, strengthen, and naturalize differences in genders as the results are measured by motives to participate. From birth, both boys and girls have different socialization as it relates to athletics and physical activity resulting…

what will happen. Suddenly, the ballerina appears on stage. She is beautiful and the audience claps for her. At the end of the show, she receives flowers and massive amounts of applause. Every little girl in the audience wants to be the ballerina on stage that was just seen. How does a little girl fulfill her dream of becoming a professional ballerina? What are the steps she must take in order to be on stage, gaining recognition one day? Ballet dancers take joy in controlling their bodies,…

eyes centralized solely on the teenage models dressed in tight fitting clothes with the headline saying, “How to Look Hot”. I carefully read the tips on diets and fitness routines that could help me lose weight. My goal was to look as skinny as those girls in the magazine. If I didn’t look like them, I wouldn’t be attractive. I mentally prompted myself to stay clear of carbs and to only eat three meals a day with only snacks with less than hundred calories in between. I glanced at my scale in…

Although, there gender norms taught to us by the world since birth, people should look past them. As a child you are told “ that’s a girl color”, “that’s a girl toy”, etc but who is to tell someone what they can and can’t be. In an interview with the Chicago Times a man was asked if careers were classified by sex and he stated, “ Yes, I mean when a nurse is about to come into the examination room…

Many people have been discussing the life altering question, how far have we come since the 1700s? A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens accurately describes social injustice during the French Revolution. One’s social class define one’s role and importance in society. Such classes were defined as: the rich, working class, and the poor. The working class along with the poor were looked down upon by the rich, inferior to them. The rich had all of the access to medicine, doctors, and were able to…

Cormier, the author of the short story “Another of Mike’s Girls”, believed that love had a strong influence over the lives of those who are impacted by it. Not all love is romantic, and, often times, love is felt by a parent to their child. That kind of love, as mature as it may be, makes people as intransigent as the typical teen romance. Affection causes people to be irrational in their thinking, but it also can consume people. It can bring people up to the point”…of triumph and pride,” but it…

to cross one’s mind are teenage girls, unless you live in that concrete safari called high school awaiting the fate of being declared the prey or the predator. When it comes to typical portrayal of high school, it is always a sure bet that the cast will contain the “loser”, the “alpha female”, the “jock”, the “minions”, and the animal instincts of human nature. With each additional scene another layer of stereotype-flavored frosting is added to the cultural cake. In the movie Mean Girls, it only…

How can one’s body be seen as beautiful and one’s confidence radiate, if there is no opportunity to promote those feelings? Today, this concept is relevant in regards to large amounts of media, that do just this. Living in a world filled with photo shopped advertisements and magazines, standards of beauty have created unhealthy body image. Through this disorders like anorexia and body dysmorphia have been given life, and until we begin to change the conversation this cycle will not stop.…

democratic and capitalist, in reality, it is difficult to have the freedom to change one’s social class up. In The Great Gatsby, protagonist Gatsby aims to move up in social class by gaining money and fame to be able to have his lost love, Daisy, choose him over Tom. “A&P” by John Updike conveys the story of how the main character, Sammy, wants to change his position to be able to have a relationship with Queenie, the girl…

slowly maturing interests and activities” (Mead 109). This can be attributed to their societal structure as is evident in regards to a girl’s relationship with her family and age group, with the general diffusion of authority deriving from one’s age in relation to other’s. Sex and rank is also an important determinant to how a girl affiliates with her family members…