Personal Narrative: Gender Differences In Middle School

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

As a wise man once said, “To love yourself is to understand you don't need to be perfect to be good.” However young girls have so much pressure put on them to look in a way that is not only unrealistic but also unhealthy. As a result of this, young girls have a very negative body image and self-confidence.The problem is the unrealistic body standards that media and society have set for girls. According to SSCC, the average American woman is 5’4 and 140 pounds. There is a clear problem when the media is only advertising women that are 5’11 and 117 pounds, which is the average American model. Even though the body of a model is very rare and uncommon,girls are expected to look like they do. However, by promoting a positive body campaign, stopping the portrayal of fake and photoshopped models in the media, and expanding the diversity of models, we could lift unrealistic body standards and start accepting everybody as beautiful.

Girls, and women, feel as though they have this rigid criteria they must fit into regarding their body image due to the influence of the media.

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

Call me skinny, call me fat. Call me pretty, call me ugly. It doesn't matter. I'm still me. And that's a lesson we sometimes need to remind ourselves. True beauty is not in your face or in your dress but in your dignity.

Physical education (often abbreviated Phys. Ed. or P.E.) or gymnastics(gym or gym class) is a course taken during primary and secondary educationthat encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting.

Going back and rereading page 71, made me think about how unprepared I initially felt about starting high school. Before I had even started, I was worrying that I would be drowning in assignments and projects, and would not have any of the same friends from middle school. High school seemed so large and important compared to middle school, and I could not wrap the idea around my head that I was going to be a freshman. High school had always seemed so grown up to me and so were the people in it. I was nervous that I was going to hate it like every high schooler in the movies said they did, but after the first few weeks I realized it really was not that bad. I realized that high school was not that different from middle school and I did not

The first name was called and it turned out to be 1 of my friends.

There is many people, especially girls, that think their body isn’t right, they look ugly, or don’t like being seeing around pretty girls. There is always a girl that feels that way, everywhere you walk, but we never notice it. If you’re fat or skinny, it really doesn’t matter, it’s just really their mind being

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

In this day and age, the epidemic of these so called ‘beauty’ standards is only getting worse and worse. Because of photo modification, low self esteem in regular everyday people is starting to become something that is nearly considered normal. Today, 42% of girls from age 5-8 want to be skinnier, 52% of girls aged 9 to 13 feel better when they are dieting and by the age of 17, 78% of girls are unhappy with their own bodies. Think about

This article helps me understand my topic better because it shows me what girls worried about the most. Some girls worried about their image and were not happy with their weight or size. The drawbacks are that the models worried about their size. I recommend this article to girls because it proves too many girls that they can still be skinny, chubby, small, etc. and still be a model and girls can learn a lot from this article,

Do you remember when we were younger and you would tell me I was fat. We’d be standing in the kitchen or sitting in the living room. It wouldn’t even be in the middle of a fight. You would just say it. It wasn’t bad enough you were the thinnest in the family. Next to you I felt twice as insecure. You were and still almost toothpick thin. I’m sure you’re fighting you own battles with that especially in a society that tells you that you need your muscles to have muscles but I wish you would have always put me down. I too receive backlash from society. I did not need it from my family as well.

Currently, body dissatisfaction is not uncommon among young girls. Past research results told us that current unrealistic standard of female beauty, which puts a particular emphasis on thinness, is the most likely cause of body dissatisfaction among adolescent girls (Fallon, 1990; Heinberg, 1996; Rodin, Silberstein, & Striegel-Moore, 1985). Viewing unrealistic ideal-based images can also result in increased schema activation and anger, as well as to decreased confidence (Hargreaves & Tiggemann, 2002). Many social efforts have been made to reduce women’s body dissatisfaction, such as the inclusion of diverse-sized women in women’s magazines (Zacharakis, 2009), the banning of fashion shows and advertisements featuring underweight or very underweight models (Alfano, 2006; BBC, 2012; Dittmaretal, 2009), just to name a few.

“Approximately 80% of U.S women, including teens, don’t like how they look,” says Heather G. Gallivan of the Park Nicollet Melrose Center. “Parents, family members, and friends a girl keeps can also affect how they feel about their body.” If a girls surroundings never mention anything or comment on anything about a girls look in a kind and honest way, they search and search for anyone simply to compliment how they look, by insulting themselves to hear that they look good out of pity. Having true people to compliment how you look or how you act, like a fan on the red carpet, can make you feel more powerful & good about yourself.