This One's for the Girls

(Wikipedia)This story has examples of persecution complex, myth of invulnerability and peer pressure. Persecution complex is an acute irrational fear that other people are plotting one’s downfall (Rational Wiki). This is demonstrated in the story when Arenetta says that she heard a Troop 909 girl call Daphne,…

child is born is the quintessential “boy or girl” question. Anatomy, biological status, chromosomes and sex are factors that most individuals feel defines their gender, which is the cultural expectation of what it means to be male or female. In continuation, the chapter continues by mentioning that men and women share 45/46 chromosomes, and are alike to one another in most ways. Males and females share striking similarities, and the chapter delves into this factor by stating that, “Our…

obsessed over girls with the ‘perfect’ body. This constantly forces girls at a young age to be pressured to have the perfect body, when in reality that is impossible. Society sets up expectations for girls to try and be more like the image of a tall, model-thin girl with perfect hair and flawless skin. These images are stamped and burned into young girls minds and cause them to be motivated to become something they are not, which can lead to very harmful outcomes. Society should not pressure…

All young girls dream of being royalty. Kindergarten fantasies consist of glitter, tiaras, and undoubtedly a handsome prince. “Cinderella and Princess Culture” written by Peggy Orenstein and “The Princess Paradox” written by James Poniewozik are two articles that compare fairytale life to the real world, analyzing the purpose of princesses in today’s society. While both authors use feministic points of view to convey how being exposed to princesses impacts a child’s future, Peggy Orenstein…

show off their bras and underwear. In this specific ad, it says “A Body for Every Body” (Mullins) while every model is the same size: extremely skinny. This ad is selling bras by telling consumers that they produce a bra for everybody, while the models have only one body type. They are all standing seductively and are smiling. What the ad doesn’t show are models with different body types, making it seem like their body is the only body there should be. After this ad was published, Dove also made…

The Walkabout is a rite of passage ritual held in Australia. In this ritual, the Australian Aborigines will send thirteen year old boys to live in the wild for six months. The goal is to make them mature enough to survive by themselves. The teenagers have to trace paths that their ancestors took. This ritual is a reflection of how 50,000 years ago their ancestors survived in different environments in Australia. This most frequent ritual also consists of activities including boys that go on…

Social Psychology amongst Cheerleaders For this paper, I chose to evaluate my high school’s cheerleading team for concepts that were taught in Social Psychology. I was a member of this team for my junior year of high school- 2012 to 2013. I was a first-year varsity cheerleader, and it was my second year attending this school. This team was almost entirely composed of student dancers with teammates ranging from fourteen years old to eighteen year olds. I was the only non- freshman who had not…

slut if they choose to express themselves in a certain way. Which is not ok, advertising companies use slim and fit females to sale products, the consumer can even sometimes remember the product, but can recall that there was a female in a bikini, this has been going on since the 1980’s. Females are catcalled, exploited, raped, sexually harassed, seen as toys, not taken seriously, and put into a ‘box’ of stereotypes. Younger females in school aren’t allowed to express themselves in certain ways…

frowned upon in American culture? These societal norms are called gender roles. Every culture in the world has gender roles whether the men and women of that society realize it. The definition states gender roles are, “a set of behaviors that indicate one’s gender, specifically the image projected by a person that identifies their femaleness or maleness.” (Dictionary.com’s 2013) Generally, these gender guidelines are taught through school, sports and family as that child goes through…

just like them. There are three sources that prove this problem, one being an essay, another an excerpt, and the last in a column in a newspaper. In this essay, there will also be a solution to mend this issue. The first given source which is an essay titled, “Being a Man” dictated by Paul Theroux. In this essay, it states that “for any boy who expresses the desire to be alone, seems to be saying that there is something wrong with him.” Ergo, this could imply that even if a young adolescent…