Fat Girl

persuade girls of ages 17 and above to lose weight. While looking for a magazine to write about, I came across a few ads in the life & style magazine. This ad, for Xenadrine, is a weight loss product which uses a very skinny and sexy female model in a bikini to sell its product. On the top is a big written word which says “make heads turn” the purpose is to convince girls of ages 17 or above who are having an hard time trying to lose weight or girls who sees

In an ideal world, the perfection of beauty would merely be a myth. Beauty would not determine one’s worth. In a perfect world, body image would simply be a physical characteristic, not a defining factor. People would not be labeled based on looks. In a perfect world, the beauty standard would not exist. Regardless of appearance, everyone would be beautiful in one’s own way. Although the truth is undesirable, today’s society is far from perfect. The beauty standard is evident and demeaning. It is

Not Like a Barbie The poem “Barbie Doll” written by Marge Piercy is about the pressure of fitting in society. We look at a healthy girl that had a normal childhood. She grew up playing with toys according to her gender and was considered smart at school. This girl had an endless number of qualities for having a wonderful future. Everything for her lost value when in her adolescence a classmate made her feel not beautiful because she did not look like a Barbie doll. There was a time in

continue, becoming increasingly harmful. In addition to being ripped away from friends and missing out on chances to have a regular lifestyle, a 2013 study done by the American Psychological Association asserts that all pageants do is teach young girls “to see themselves as objects to be looked at and evaluated for their appearance.” Children who enter the pageant world are suddenly drilled with unrealistic beauty expectations, telling young kids with impressionable minds that they can only win if

“debased, parasitic and dangerous, a threat to critical thought and class identity.” (Shiach, 1991, p. 40) The same kind of women is always used in advertisements, and this girl is the face of our sexualized culutre. She is slim, young, beautiful, flawless, etc. This does not represent a majority of the public. “Older women, fat women, and any women who do not live up to the increasingly narrow normative judgements of female attractiveness are excluded from the pleasurable, empowering world of midriff

In this video, a girl is doing an experiment to see if people would help a hot girl in need of makeup, or a homeless girl in need of food. She starts off with the girl who needed makeup. Overall, she made a decent amount of money for her makeup. In the video, there were only one person who told her she was wrong and knocked the poster of her hand, and by explaining to her that there were people in more difficult situations. That was the only person who did not support what she was doing. In the second

parking citation at 1:30 in the morning, reeking of alcohol. It can be inferred he was receiving a Minor in Possession of Alcohol, but it could be a parking citation. Another girl, was on the phone screaming, “You don’t even love me, why you can’t just get that it was a onetime thing! Oh my God,” in stereotypical sorority girl fashion. Throughout the

are extremely thin without a trace of fat or cellulite to be found. The people who consume this media are exposed to the idea that the women they are observing are models for true physical beauty. These standards are accompanied by an alternate message from the media that pushes the idea that women’s value comes from their beauty. While some women may understand that the messages about the ideal woman are unrealistic and false, it is found that adolescent girls are vulnerable to the media’s strategies

Girls can not play at a competitive high level against guys in contact sports or even just any contact sport. Some people believe girls are capable of playing with boys. Girls do not have the physical advantages that guys have. Combine boys and girls sports teams would ruin and make sports boring. This information really only applies to middle school and above contact sports. Coed sports should not exist in any contact sport because boys are bigger and stronger than girls, boys have higher skill

and lifestyle. As a little girl you are given petite shaped, blonde, blue-eyed dolls. While boys are given brawny soldiers and mechanical toys. What do little girls do with these dolls? They put on fresh makeup, change their fashionable clothing, and style there long luscious hair. This alone is creating a psychological change in a little girls brain, it is instilling that this is what is customary for a girl to do. Rather than fixing things you are to play