Perfection Of Girls

Even though media vaunts an iridescent image of what every girl should look like, the simple fact is just, it is impossible. It is because the pictures in the media are not true—they all have gone through lots of Photoshop. Only 5 percent of women have the body type seen in almost all advertisements. Besides, most of fashion models are thinner than 98 percent of American women. However, women still continue to do whatever they can in order to fit into that idea of ‘perfection’. Eating disorders have harassed who want to feel like they are ‘beautiful’, for years. Women are willing to do anything even though it can cause harm to their own self due to low self-esteem. Do you want your sister, friends or girl friends always feel depressed and doing harm to themselves, as they feel dissatisfied about their

Adding to this, it is very common that the father does not want his daughter to be too gorgeous. The saying all beauty comes with a price goes hand in hand with what the fathers of these girls wish. They also want their daughters to settle down with a man and have children that just keep coming. Sadly, this is something society has deemed acceptable, and many young girls are now trying to be what they know as the stereotype of “pretty” and “perfect.” Suddenly, it is all that matters and what they want simply is not important, they are not able to be their own kind of beautiful. Women and young ladies all over the world see models, actors, actresses. People who have the so called “perfect body” and face. A chiseled abdomen and prominent jaw line for guys. Hair that you can run your hands through. Flawless smile full of pearly white teeth. A completely flat stomach with a hint of abs for girls. Long, long legs that go on for miles. Flowing, glossy, shiny hair and a button nose. Big wide eyes. To the world these features make someone beautiful. In fact, in order to be a Victoria's Secret Runway Model, you must be at least 5’10. When these young girls, and guys see these superficial people they assume that they too must look like them. They do not know that these are people who probably starve themselves, truly experiencing the saying “beauty is pain.” Beauty should be

     One thing that Pipher describes is how girls’ views change as they enter adolescence. Lots of girls bury their childhood, and submissively enter adult existence. These girls who are becoming young women, according to Pipher, stop thinking. The main focus on their minds is, “What must I do to please others?” This thought is true to a certain extent in some young girls. It is true that many of the things that some girls do are solely for the purpose of living up to a societal expectation. Many of the beauty magazines portray images of supermodels; something that young girls may interpret as what the society expects. Also, all of the television and movie actors are very pretty, and many young girls are dying to fill out that expectation that seems to have been set for them. Although it seems clear that not everyone has “movie star good looks”, this idea can be hard for a young immature mind to grasp.

The movie mentioned Mean Girls is a very popular movie and majority of adolescent females have watched or related to this movie. Mean Girls show large amounts of direct and indirect aggression towards other females and is the perfect example of a typical high school social hierarchy for youth. The girls in the movie are constantly fighting over and for the boy’s attention in addition to constantly wanting the sluttiest outfits (Chesney-Lind, Morash & Irwin, 2007, P. 330). A main problem is how society has deemed violent female behaviour as the norm, and acceptable or even the superior position a female has in the social

Do filmmakers depict teenage girls as the only bullies? A film, Mean Girls, is one of the many movies that have misconstrued teenage bullying. Mean Girls is about three white-upper class, popular girls that bully a lower class “nice” girl. Other films, such as A Cinderella Story, and Bring it On have added fuel to the fire. Filmmakers portray bullying by stereotyping, and giving a false representation of bullying.

Everybody remembers that one troublemaker they went to elementary school with. Was this kid a boy or girl? Though it may have been a girl, the majority of troublemakers are boys. In a study done in schools in 2011, teachers said, “according to a survey of teachers which found that a fifth thought girls were more likely to cause trouble than boys” (Vasager 1). This is not the case in the children’s book, David Goes to School by David Shannon. Although girls also can cause problems in school, throughout the story David Goes to School, David causes all the trouble in his class while the girls are setting the good example of a student.

Society has set certain stereotypes to girls and women about what it is considered to be beautiful that girl’s focus more in their appearances than in their internal selves. Every girl deserves to feel beautiful because they all are, but how can girls think that they are beautiful if there is always that constant reminder of what being considered beautiful is. It is often seen on TV various shows where little girls are being judged by the way they walk, turn, how their makeup and hair is done and what they are wearing, and obviously their beauty. Society has set such high standards of what is considered beautiful and girls are being the victims of those standards. Girls now feel that they are not beautiful enough because they do not meet

Too big. Too small. Too fat. Too tall. Us girls all over the world are driven to believe that our body shapes are "wrong," or "unpleasant," just because we weren't born to look like the girls that we see in the magazines nor were we born to live up to society's nearly impossible standards. Mean Girls - the movie that describes our society perfectly. Although the video above may seem overemphasized, this scene within the movie is almost an exact representation of how many girls portray themselves these days because of the unrealistic standards they have "failed" to meet. It is almost as if hating ourselves has become the norm in our society. Oh wait... it has. According to the Canadian Women's Organization, "One-in-five Canadians (21 per

Beauty standards in America are always changing and continuously on the rise due to society’s constant obsession with the perfect body image. This image is built upon the things we see in movies, television shows, and magazines, which causes girls to feel the need to look flawless and set far-fetched goals for their physical appearance. Today’s era marks tall, skinny and flawless faces as beautiful, and if girls don’t have any of these attributes, they truly believe that they aren’t as beautiful and will do whatever it takes in order to obtain that beauty. In today’s ever-so-demanding society, social media, flawless models, and pressure from not only peers but from family as well, have all implemented a negative impact

According to the society/media’s beauty standards and expectations, women are supposed to have big breasts, small waist, and big butt as said in the interview by my sister. From a young age, girls are taught about what they are supposed to look like through media. All these girls grow up to be women who have low self-esteems because they have been shown pictures of women who they do not look like but want to look like. Women want to fit into these unrealistic images because they are eager to be known as beautiful. Studies show that the more reality television a young girl watches, the more likely she is to find physical appearance important (Thompson, 2014). Research shows that women who consume more mainstream media, place a greater importance on sexiness and overall appearance than those who do not consume as much (Mazur,

As you’re walking down a street you may notice a young group of girls or women walking and they see a huge billboard of a beautiful model. They might stop and stare at her and then discuss about her perfect her body is. Not knowing in the next five minutes they’ll be comparing their bodies to the model and feeling bad about themselves wishing that they had her body. Not to mention, that the photo may be photoshopped to make it seem as her body is perfect, or she had plastic surgery to fit the idea of having the perfect body. The fact that the media thinks they’re encouraging young girls and women to embrace their beauty, they’re influencing them that they have to have a perfect body in order to get attention. The media has put a lot of pressure on young girls and women to look perfect and second guess their bodies, when plastic surgery is never the answer to build their self-esteem up.

Self-esteem plays a big part of body image. People have to feel good about themselves and be comfortable in their own skin to be happy. In today's world, it feels almost impossible to be happy, this generation is all about the media which makes having self-esteem 10x harder. Millions of pictures are posted of expectations of how women should look. In an article written by Pavica Sheldon, she states that ”The average American woman is 5’4 and 140 pounds, whereas the average female model portrayed in the media is 5’11 and 120 pounds”. Women are placed into a box telling them they have to look a certain way and if they don't they're simply not good enough. Besides being put into a category women numerously get called nasty names like slut or whore if they show too much. Piggy and fatty if they're overweight. Or “stick” if she's too skinny. Nothing is ever good enough is what it feels like. For example, Kylie Jenner, if you grew up watching “Keeping up with the Kardashians” you know how she looked before all the plastic surgery she got done, she now looks completely different. An account wrote, “What are they giving Kylie?” and someone quoted the tweet and said plastic. So even if women try to fix their imperfections they still get shamed down for it by calling them fake.

It is sad to think these girls are only expressing how they believe they should be treated or what they have been brought up to think. It is because the pressure to fit the standard of beauty and constantly being judged at such a young age creates stress that a child is just not prepared to handle yet. These children become tired, working for hours on this perfection, so

Society creates a standard of beauty for women that often changes along with society due to a new perspective on what it means to be beautiful in our culture. These standards for beauty create what our society believes makes a woman desirable, attractive, perfect, and overall beautiful.  Which then enforces unhealthy and unrealistic beauty ideals that negatively affect women's self-image and their body image because society has attributed beauty to self worth. The result is with the ever changing standards of beauty means women use various ways to alter their bodies and appearance by clothing, makeup, hair, dieting, exercising, and even taking extreme measures to perfect their looks through surgery.

There are obvious unrealistic beauty standards in today’s delusional society, which are resulting in mental and physical health problems in young girls. The media is fixated on what the perfect girl should look like and girls are practically killing themselves to look that way. Between photo shop and filters, people are able to make anyone look “perfect”. Many people in our society do not realize that the pictures they see in magazines and online are fake and photo shopped to the point where it does not even look like the same person. Girls end up doing unnatural things to try to achieve this look because, they think that’s how a “healthy” girl is supposed