Tina Fey Called Her Book Bossypants

Her crude choppy handwriting gives the feeling "that she had been the victim of some inner- some emotional- conflict that had in its violence broken the continuity of the lines she was able to make on paper"(81). Her writing directly reflects the incontinuity and lack of control in her life. Unlike Bateman who feigns control over his life through body building and bulimia, she escapes from the lack of control in her life through depression.

Radner’s parody of her on Saturday Night Live hurt her credibility even more. Within two years,

A traumatic past often carries over into ones present, and dictates how they live their lives. Trauma can overtake one’s life and they usually cannot overcome their past, which usually results in psychological dysfunction. Throughout literature and films, directors and writers often make their main characters suffer a traumatic past, which bleeds into the present, and they show the subsequent effects that the trauma had in their present lives. Characters who deal with incredibly difficult pasts, can often be portrayed as mentally unstable in order to show how their relationships with the past can negatively impact the life they desperately try to rebuild for themselves. Past events scar people for their future and characters are held back from living a new life. Characters

According to Erikson, this is when the elderly start to be proud of their accomplishments, but are also faced with disparity of the goals they never reached (Berger, 2011). Noah is proud to be telling Allie about their past and wants her to remember it because he is taking so much pride in it. Even though Noah wants Allie to remember their past, he is dealing with the disparity that his wife may not ever remember him. An example from the movie is when Allie remembers who Noah is for just a few moments, and he is so glad and has thought she is back forever, but Allie immediately goes back into not knowing who Noah is (Cassavetes, 2004). Noah is immediately sad and despised that his wife will never be the same.

Slater's memoir explains what society feels and how it views people who are considered deviant. Slater talks about being critiqued and labeled at a young age. Slater uses Howard Labeling theory to compare and contrast her experiences from her clients and how they may be different or similar to one another. I really liked Slater's memoir she was placed in a mental institution in her early years. The doctors believed she had a personality disorder and will never be seen as a normal person. In the chapter "Striptease" Slater introduces someone named Peter. Slater mentions how Peter is labeled as someone who loves to be in control, very aggressive towards others, a sociopath. Slater believes Peter cannot change no amount of treats or counseling

I maintain, however, that in some way or another the audience is bound to be exposed to the harsh reality of the outside world. Even just going to school, they would be exposed to equally, if not, more devastating topics, like sexual harassment and school shootings. The memoir, rather than glorifying these topics like they do in movies and television shows, they are portrayed straightforwardly. For example, on page 146, Walls describes the situation: “Erma kneeling on the floor in front of Brian, grabbing at the crotch of his pants… and telling Brian to hold still,” while “his cheeks wet with tears, was holding his hands protectively between his legs.” Excessive and biased words were not used to portray walls’ loathing towards her grandma, which offers the audience to conclude their own opinions on the situation. Being straightforward with what happened opens the audience to sensitive topics and informs them of what to do, which helps them even more than if the topic was talked about lightly and cast

In one of her experiences of sexism, she states her friend, Amy Poehler, and her were doing a rather vulgar skit as a joke and one of their male coworkers complained that it was not their place as women to be doing such things and that it was not attractive, to which Amy responded: “I don’t care if you like it!” Another area of feminism Fey talked about was towards the beginning of the book. She talks about how she never really fit into society’s beauty standards and how she struggled with that in high school and explains how beauty standards are ridiculously high and practically unachievable and emphasizes the importance of being yourself and being

Obviously, we know the speaker is Gail Collins, but it is much more than just a woman. Collins comes out to be the women who lets her feminist side really show through. Gail Collins has written this article through her beliefs of feminism and favoring Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. A strong woman with feminist beliefs was very interested in showing her political views to connect to the fellow feminist who share the same opinions as Collins.

“I quiet (Updike, 2; par 19).” It was really immature to say that out loud so that the girls could hear him. His parent helped him get the job in A&P store, but he didn’t care. “You don’t want to do this your mom and dad (Updike, 2: par 23).” He really wanted the girl’s attention. Sammy also was having sexually thought about the girls while he was working. “The two smoothest scoops of Vanilla I had known were there (Updike, 11; par 20).” Sammy was thinking about Queenie breast. He didn’t know quinine as a person, but he really praise her body

  Memories are works of fiction, selective representations of experiences actual or imagined. They provide a framework for creating meaning in one's own life as well as in the lives of others. In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, memory is a dangerous and debilitating faculty of human consciousness. Sethe endures the tyranny of the self imposed prison of memory. She expresses an insatiable obsession with her memories, with the past. Sethe is compelled to explore and explain an overwhelming sense of yearning, longing, thirst for something beyond herself, her daughter, her Beloved. Though Beloved becomes a physical manifestation of these memories, her will is essentially defined by and tied to the

It can be argued that women in the public sphere, especially powerful women, are rigidly assessed through the male gaze, while men are not. According to Mary Rogers, the male gaze evaluates women according to the institutionalized interests of heterosexual men (Rogers & Garrett, 2002 p. 3). Kate Legge’s satirical article highlights Australia’s fixation with Gillard’s earlobes during a debate in 2010, rather than her campaign themes. She mockingly remarks on the lack of commentary about the appearance of male politicians during debates of the past (Legge, 2010). Another demonstration of the sexism Gillard repeatedly endured appeared on a menu for a Queensland Coalition candidate’s fundraiser, as the Former Prime Minister’s genitalia became a matter of public concern. One of the main courses read ‘Julia Gillard

She tried to hide it on the outside but was really hurt on the inside. For example in the text it states, “But more important,” said Ed Looper, plunking his lunch tray down, “is you can’t seem like a victim.” “I don’t seem like a victim!” Sally insisted.” “She did, though. Bad posture. Flitting eye contact. Mumbles a lot.” These examples supports the topic because it shows that Sally was really hurt and trying to make it like nothing ever happened between Booker and her. This also supports this paragraph because she changed to a very happy person in the beginning and now upset and feels like she needs to lose weight. My second example is, that she is too upset to talk to anyone around her. For example in the text it states, “ I just want to ignore those people,” she said sadly to the group. “Can you do it, though?” I asked her. She shrugged, mumbled, looked down.” This shows that the bullying really got to her and she feels like she doesn’t have anybody standing next to her to help and support her. She also feels that if she won't talk to them nothing will ever happen to her again if she doesn’t do anything and lay eye contact. In conclusion, this shows how upset Sally is in the middle of the story and shows that she doesn’t feels part of anything

The political arena is a tough place to be part of, especially during a campaign. Your opponent and their supporters are constantly watching your every move with the hopes that you will make a mistake, or that somebody will find some detrimental dirt on you. Now imagine also being a woman, not only will you have to face the hardships that male candidates cope with but you will also have to handle the adversity based on your gender and the stereotypes that go along with being a female. Women have to be prepared to confront the fact that they may not even be wanted in that setting. For example Margaret Carlson stated,

Susie worries most about her gifted and petulant sister Lindsay. Lindsay is only one year younger but still is not told directly about what's happened to Susie; instead she hears telephone snippets and bits of conversations between her parents and the police. After hearing her father describe Susie's features, she asks her father not to lie to her, so he doesn't; but even answering her question, he can't face the truth of his words. Susie watches Lindsay sitting alone in her bedroom trying to harden herself. As the story unfolds, it is clear that Lindsay carries the hardest burden, because no one will ever be able to look at her and not think about Susie. By losing her sister, Lindsay is in danger of being robbed of herself.

The story is written like a diary of Paula Spencer's good and bad memories in her life and gives the reader the impression that Paula is sharing her life story with us and she is also narrating her life as we read.