Eve Ensler's I Am An Emotional Creature

Joan Jacobs Brumberg’s work, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, examines how American societal changes are reflected on the female body. Brumberg’s work draws primarily from the diaries of young American girls, giving intimate glimpses into the inner workings of their minds about how they relate to their bodies.

Under society’s customs for decades, young women have found themselves immersed in the pressure and anticipation to have exemplary bodies. Nearly every young woman prefers to be slim, have a perfectly shaped body, that is beautified by applying pounds of makeup to their face but does not appear ridiculously overdone. Who’s responsible for these measures imposed on young women? When a young girl picks up the model on the cover of Vogue being called flawless, naturally it’s easy for her to then aspire to be a real-life imitation of the that model. These companies produce magazine covers shown with girls’ images daily. As if keeping the perfect body wasn’t hard enough, our culture also forces girls into the forever expanding world of composition, however, body image is a surging subject for young girls. Advertisements and pictures of lean female models are all over. Young women are measured and perplexed by their physical appearances with attire intended to raise their physical structures; social media, magazines, the society, marketing campaigns, advertisements, and the fashion gurus add to a strand of excellence.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. At least, that’s what is taught to believe at an early age. Elline Lipkin, however, holds fast to the understanding that as true as that saying may be, there are outside forces that are intent on readjusting our vision to “true beauty”: the kind that can be bought off the shelves. In her article, “Girls’ Bodies, Girls’ Selves: Body Image, Identity, and Sexuality”, Lipkin employs several different external resources to help demonstrate her belief that young girls’ (“Before they even abandon their teddy bears…“ (Para 2)) definition of their own appearance is polluted and distorted by the vastly massive world that is the American media. Besides pulling from other articles and fact sheets, she also effectively utilizes a clearly logical train of thought, an operative tone, and countless examples of emotional appeal.

Instead of empowering girls, society would rather drag them down. Girls are most susceptible to the target of beauty standards that can lead to detrimental self-harm. This op-ed from USA Today by Natalie DiBlasio denounces such occurrences. Gold’s Gym, a franchise from Egypt, recently posted an image of a pear with the caption: “This is no shape for a girl” (Par 2). This sparked controversy and anger as it was a cruel judgement on the physiques of many girls in the world. It questioned the credibility of the gym as the image attacked girls rather than inspiring them. In expressing her own distaste as well as of others, DiBlasio uses several rhetorical techniques to combat the harmful message of the image. Through the compilation of emotional stories with statistical data and powerful diction, DiBlasio establishes strong advocacy for the liberation of girls from beauty standards that successfully influences the reader to do the same.

Raina Kelley covers society's issues and cultural controversies for Newsweek and The Daily Beast.’s. In her article “Beauty Is Defined, and Not By You” aims to convince her readers that women success or not is not depends on beauty. “When I’m on m deathbed, I hope to be smiling in satisfaction about all I accomplished, not that I made it to 102 without any cellulite.” One of her goals is to remain all girls do not get influence by this society, just be brave and continue to reject that beauty is the only way to get ahead. Kelley used personal experiences, facts and examples, also counter argument to create a convincing argument.

Caroline shows the proof from the advertisement and marketing with statistic data and real-life examples. She says girls as young as 7 years old are exposed to goods and advertisements which encourage them to be sexy and even the underwear is being sold in sizes for 7- to 10-year-olds. These impacts from the outside force young girls to recognize their values by their body shape.

Our “omniscient” society has a keen eye that is constantly watching us. Women were trapped in pursuit of physical perfection since the dawn of time and still are. No wonder men were always much more successful than women. This constant pursuit is a great distraction for women on the path to success. The issue of body image in America is real and Roxane Gay wants the readers to acknowledge that.

In The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, Joan Jacobs Brumberg explores the changing beauty standards of American society and how body image has become more important to American females, especially adolescents. Brumberg explains how adolescents are in a situation where there are many standards associated with their bodies. In today’s adolescents, the body is often used to define the person. This book deeply explores the many different expectations, standards, and changes in body image and compares them to ideals of the past. It analyzes the differences between “then” and “now”.

(Heubeck 2006) For many young people, especially girls, the ideal continues to chase them as they grow into young women. Young girls begin to internalize the stereotypes and judge themselves by media’s impossible standards. The power that the media holds in impacting the lives of young girls is detrimental and eventually affects their body image, their satisfaction of their own body, and portrayal of their body as an object.

Sisters were shown and talked about how she was teased for being ugly and cuts herself. This is very heartbreaking because no human should be treated in such an under-represented way. The film proved that media influence on the wrongly representation of women is happening. The film tells the viewers that about 78% of girls dislike their bodies by the age

Throughout the stories shared by women all over the world, Ensler speaks about the theme that the strive for “flawless” personal appearance can be found anywhere. However, this idealistic desire can drastically affect our lives in an everyday bias, unless we learn to love ourselves along

When Obie award-winning author and playwright, Eve Ensler, began collecting testimonials from women across the country regarding their experiences with sexuality, she had no idea what would eventually occur as a result of her innovative ideas. Ensler gathered 200 monologues from women, and wove them into a play that represents the strength and vitality of female sexuality. The Vagina Monologues were first performed in the basement of New York City’s Cornelia Street Café in 1996. Since that time, the play has become a symbol of awareness and advocacy about violence against women, and has been translated into 24 different languages, making it an international success (2005,

It 's not a mystery that society 's ideals of beauty have a drastic and frightening effect on women. Popular culture frequently tells society, what is supposed to recognize and accept as beauty, and even though beauty is a concept that differs on all cultures and modifies over time, society continues to set great importance on what beautiful means and the significance of achieving it; consequently, most women aspire to achieve beauty, occasionally without measuring the consequences on their emotional or physical being. Unrealistic beauty standards are causing tremendous damage to society, a growing crisis where popular culture conveys the message that external beauty is the most significant characteristic women can have. The approval of prototypes where women are presented as a beautiful object or the winner of a beauty contest by evaluating mostly their physical attractiveness creates a faulty society, causing numerous negative effects; however, some of the most apparent consequences young and adult women encounter by beauty standards, can manifest as body dissatisfaction, eating disorders that put women’s life in danger, professional disadvantage, and economic difficulty.

With the media being a very popular way of communication and self expression in today’s culture, it influences the way of younger generations to be more involved in today’s technology, and to allow them to influence the world by the press of a button. But one of the topics that is very controversial is that in today’s society is the high expectations of what they think a girl has to look like, from girls not having stretch marks or scars, to magazines and photographers using photoshop to convince readers that the model looks like that. With all of these being factors that there is pressure is high for many girls around the world, this has to resolved.

“The Girl I Hate” by Mona Awad tackles the daily problems of a girl who struggles with her body image. From counting calories to enjoying food, as if it is a sin, Awad creates a realistic story that many can relate to. Awad wrote a successful short story due to her ability to appeal to young females emotions, also known as pathos. Awad makes the audience feel a wide array of emotions from guilt to joy. It is easy to both love and hate the nameless main character. The author is successful because she has a purpose for creating the emotions the reader feels. Not only is Awad’s story incredibly relatable, but it is an important story for this day and age when more people are struggling with body confidence than ever.