Stereotypes In Beauty Queens

So, I've seen a lot of articles about girls writing to a certain group of guys who treat girls with little thought. There are articles about guys being players and guys who can't seem to be tied down or stay in a relationship. Well, I'm here to say that I am the girl version of that guy. Even though I see myself settling down someday, I can't keep a relationship going for more than a few months.

As an alien, I’ve observed the many roles implied on Earth males and females through a Vogue magazine in a Western culture. Although there are a plethora of examples, for the most part; women are shown to be erotic objects, while men do not have much of a role.

There is a cliché quote that people say, “Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” But in the essay “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” (1998) Dave Barry argues about how women who spend countless hours on their so called “beauty” whereas men seem not to care. Barry uses juxtaposition and exaggeration to poke fun at men and women behavior and shed light on the harm that the beauty industry is doing. When Barry argues his point of his essay he addresses both genders, but more specifically teenage to middle age men and women, but he writes about it in a humorous and light-hearted manner.

The Ugly Truth About Beauty by Dave Barry is a humorous essay, which uses techniques like satire including exaggeration, that gives the reader a funny yet accurate portrayal of women and their beauty standards compared to standards set for men. Barry uses satire, humor to criticize the faults of others, to connect with his audience. Although Barry loves to make funny points throughout his essay he constantly weaves in serious facts and examples of this issue. Barry will make a valid point then immediately follow it up with exaggeration. His use of satire in the essay makes the reading light and enjoyable while showing the reader the double standards of beauty.

The teen comedy Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, welcomes the protagonist (Cady Heron) into the stereotypical high school setting after being raised in Africa for all of her educational path. Cady, never being in a public-school setting, comes across the Plastics: Regina George (unspoken leader), Gretchen Wieners (gossip queen), and Karen Smith (the stupid, clueless one), who are at the top of the social pyramid. Befriended by the girls, Cady is left to decide whether or not she belongs in this clique or if her place exists in a different one. The use of satirist and comedic scenes throughout the film show the different sexist lenses and stereotypes that women are viewed with.

Stereotypically, men and women have very different roles in the eyes of society. Gender roles and stereotypes have a history in religious, political, legal and economic systems. In reality, men and women are more alike than most people assume. Throughout the world there are struggles with identity, power, and violence occurring everyday between both men and women. The film Mean Girls, directed by Mark Walters, follows a young girl, Cady’s, transition from being home schooled to public high school. Cady enters the school’s group of mean girls, otherwise known as “the plastics”, which consists of Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, and Karen Smith. Throughout the film each character struggles with their true identity.

Beauty standards in the media are one of many reasons feeding and eating disorders are a rising problem. The unrealistic body types of being extremely thin, in pop culture, are influential factors for many teens, especially teen girls. According to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5), anorexia nervosa is a “restriction of energy intake, intense fear of gaining weight, and a disturbance in the perception of one’s body size” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Individuals diagnosed with anorexia tend to place a high value on their shape and weight, which can interfere with their daily lives. Individuals diagnosed tend to view of their body shape in a distorted representation. The motivation to become

There are many different types of literacy genres, a very popular one that everyone abides to is gossiping. Everyone does it rather they realize it or not. Although everyone says, gossiping is a crime in our society, people still do it. One very famous movie everyone is aware for gossiping is, Mean Girls. In Mean Girls everyone in the High School has a clique. You either belong or you don’t. Throughout the movie you can identify the different types of groups the students have developed. “The Plastics” have made a burn book, which is basically gossiping and bullying the students and even the teachers in a pretty pink decorated book. After the book was shown to basically the whole school, everyone hated the plastics, they continued to ignore

I feel that this film is neither anti-male nor anti-female. Although I do not think it is anti-male it does put men in a negative light and makes them seem stupid. Some examples of this are the truck driver on the high way. He is disgusting and is twirling his tongue at them making sexual remakes. He is portrayed like a pig and has seems to be very stupid. Another example of this is the cop who they lock in the trunk. Some more examples are Thelma’s husband who is very stupid and controlling. All of the men in the movie fit the male stereotype as stupid, controlling, mean, and only want sex. I do think the men were stereotyped and definitely put in a negative light, but that is something women face all the time in movies and media and that

It's no secret that women are significantly less represented in literature. However, once in awhile, a novel comes around that challenges this overwhelming lack of representation. This rings especially true within the pages of Libba Bray's, "Beauty Queens." The underlying message of Beauty Queens is to combat patriarchal society using satire as a pedestal.

“Mean girls, jocks, band nerds, geeks, and freaks” are all terms used to stereotype and group teens in the 2004 movie hit, Mean Girls. This film created controversies in the content that it delivered. The credibility of adolescents is questioned greatly in this film. Mean Girls taught us that popularity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, in fact, they taught us that it’s actually meaningless. Through extreme character development, this movie shows the viewer that at the end of the day, all of the teens are the same. They all struggle to fit in, and that’s really the moral of this hilarious, but raunchy story. Mean Girls captures the struggle that every teen seems to have at some point of where they belong and how they relate to everyone around them. The film takes those stereotypes and melds them into what all high schools should aspire to be: a community.

Mean Girls (2004), is a humourist teen film that is well known throughout the younger generations and is often quoted in the media. This film captures the lives of four teenage girls throughout their junior year of high school, targeting younger viewers who are in high school or soon to be in high school, who might look up to these girls as a role models or use this film for advice however, Mean Girls displays a lot of stereotypical and feminist behaviours about social class and social status, power and control and body image of high school teenagers which sets a poor example for young teens.

In the movie Mean girls Cady at first was a really shy nice girl who was experiencing public schooling for the first time. She did not know what to expect as she walked the hallways of high school. In school Cady experienced some social influence while spying and/or hanging out with the plastics. An example where this is shown is when Gretchen was laying down the rules of "girl world" she was explaining that wearing certain types of clothing like "not wearing the same tank top more than once a week, and only wearing jeans on Fridays" . This type of social influence was shown indirectly because she based her decision on following these steps of roles for the sake of fitting in with others. Visual media is a type of social influence that kids of today go through in this time and age. Things like TV shows, Reality shows, Instagram, books, magazines

In the teen comedy Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, the protagonist (Cady Heron) is welcomed into the stereotypical high school setting after being raised in Africa for all of her educational path. Cady, never being in a public-school setting, comes across the Plastics: Regina George (unspoken leader), Gretchen Wieners (gossip queen), and Karen Smith (the stupid, clueless one), who are at the top of the social pyramid. Befriended by the girls, Cady is left to decide whether or not she belongs in this clique or if her place exists in a different one. Throughout the film satirist and comedic scenes are used to show the different sexist lenses and stereotypes that women are viewed with.

In well-known fairy tales the males and females characters are often portrayed in the same light. The male characters are often described as the hero with strong masculine traits while the female characters are portrayed as the damsel in distress. Throughout the years fairytales have been casting the same stereotypes for their characters. In the story Beauty and the Beast the author de beaumont depiction of what an ideal woman is lays in Beauty. She is meant to embody the role of a feminine, humble caretaker, lover, and savior. The author depicts males as provider’s, however, it is clear that the men in the story are dependent on a positive female figure for life. Beauty’s disappearance threatens both her father and beast with death, symbolizing