This One's for the Girls

Almost 31 million Americans are affected by a serious personality disorder, the most common being Antisocial Personality Disorder. With social disorders one's characteristics are inflexible which may lead to distress in social, occupational, or other areas of one's life. Antisocial personality disorder affects around 4% of adults and those with the disorder have no respect for others, feel no remorse, become impulsive, belligerent, irresponsible, aggressive, and violent. Among the 15% of…

or even smiling at a person. His explanation includes a level 0, labeled confusion, to signify the time where there is no form of self-conscious. The Mirror Test is used to determine when a child has reached level one, labeled differentiation. In this level, the child can…

determine our worth. To have the sense of the ability to accept oneself is to potentially have the ability to do essentially anything and everything: the ability to appreciate flaws, to love oneself, to speak with confidence, and to feel proud of one’s efforts. To lack self-acceptance, is to be forced into the dark back alley, of little resources to hold, with so little perception of the world and so much vulnerability to self-deception. We cannot drown ourselves in self-deception, with each…

The story of Beauty and the Beast is a timeless fairytale retold for decades. The most famous version is Disney’s animated movie. The story is about a beautiful girl who was able to look beyond beastly features and fall in love with a beautiful personality. It was Disney’s attempt to influence a younger generation of what the concept of BEAUTY should be. As time passed and society became exposed to ever-changing standards of BEAUTY, it raises the question, what is true BEAUTY? BEAUTY is a…

women. This is what I have heard since I was a little girl. Cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids this is all women’s work and taking out the garbage, bringing home the paycheck, mowing the lawn that it is men’s work. Not any more, things have changed over time, men and women share work equally now, right? No, this is not the case and it is called gender stratification. “Gender stratification is males and females unequal access to property, power, and prestige” (Henslin, 2014). This…

There is no question that throughout society, women have faced overt challenges within sports. This is including women joining various sports that are identified as masculine, sports journalism, and more. However, since the installation of Title IX, there has been an increase of women’s involvement within both institutional and unconventional athletics. Though there has been substantial improvement perpetuated sexism within sports, there is still a strong fight against the patriarchy in present…

individual. This is reflected in his quote, “There’s daggers in men’s smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody.” In context, this quote is spoken by Donalbain, a prince and a son of the murdered King Duncan, after he learns of his father’s death. Donalbain, after hearing of his father’s murder, converses with his younger sibling, trying to determine the best course of action. They decide to separate ways, in order to be safer; after all, in their perspectives, nobody can be trusted. This…

Children in this society learn at a very young age that there are differences between boys and girls. This idea permeates daily life and is encouraged by parents, peers, school, and the media. Little girls learn that they are supposed to like dolls and pink, while little boys learn that they are supposed to like trucks and the color blue. Gender role socialization is the process of learning socially acceptable expectations and attitudes that are identified with one’s sex. Adults may…

Maxine Hong Kingston shows that one can form an identity through silence in The Woman Warrior; Kingston develops this theme through different stories her mother tells her. Throughout The Woman Warrior, Kingston slowly finds her own identity by examining heavily weighted talk-stories, stories containing the mores and values of society through many generations. These stories are relayed to Kingston through her mother, Brave Orchid. Convinced by her mother’s stories, Kingston grew up believing, “we…

and 8 other minor girls who are mentally…