Personally i've been judge with all these girly girl stereotypes. People always think the worst of me seeing that my appearance falls under being girly, but half of them have never talked to me to get to know who I really am. I have been grouped as a girly girl for many years since I like to wear cute outfits on a daily basis, enjoy wearing makeup and I like sparkly items. Just because I like these common girly girl things does not mean I am ignorant, rude or preppy. Appearances can be deceiving and do not determine a person. Growing up I had a tomboy side and as I got older and started to care about my looks and developed a more feminine side, which is now considered to be girly. As girly as I may seem I enjoy doing many manly tasks such as …show more content…
To start off, many of these so called girly girls are not that girly. For instance in a personal interview with Mikayla ruiz, a fellow classmate, I learned that although she like to dress girly, she enjoys playing softball and getting down and dirty when it comes to sports. Many will doubt that a girly girl gets dirty when playing a sport but it's true, I myself, along with Ruiz, have played sports that involve us getting dirty or hurt. A large of amount of girly girls do not like being classified as a girly girl because of an appearance. Mikayla also brought up to my attention that she doesn't consider herself as a girly girl because she doesn't always get ready to school, this shows that girly girls don't always get ready to go out. I have also came to this situation where people think I’m girly because I dress girly but 50% of the time I’m in a baggy t-shirt and sweats. Getting to meet other people can help these misconceptions and stereotypes and may even put an end to …show more content…
The community today has established a sense of ignorance towards ladylike women because these females are viewed as less by the thought of being unintelligent compared to males.. As stated by The Telegraph online article, Why do we all pick on ‘stupid’ young girls?, Radhika Sanghani, a social media strategist, points out that society allows boys to make mistakes but people shame girls for making a small mistake, “When it comes to girls, society treats them very differently. A girl who makes a foolish comment is immediately labelled ‘ditsy’, ‘dumb’, an airhead’, a ‘bimbo’ or even ‘so blonde’. All the insults are loosely referred to her looks. But when men make similar comments, they are included in the laughter and it becomes a lot more ‘lately’ and less confrontational.” It’s never okay to put a gender over the other so why does the population do this? It’s not fair to degrade females because they are girls, something that they have no control over. As a group, society and individuals have made girls, especially girly girls, have been picked on for having a bubbly personality that comes off as being dumb or unnecessary. Another example of girly girls being picked on is during school hours or even in job forces. In agreement with British Journal of Sociology of Education online article, Femininity, science, and the denigration of the girly girl, Francis,
In the article, “Little Girls or Little Women: The Disney Princess Affect”, Stephanie Hanes shows the influential impact that young girls, and youth in general, are experiencing in today’s society. This article goes in depth on the issues that impressionable minds experience and how they are reacting as a result. “Depth of gender guidelines” has been introduced to youth all around the world making it apparent that to be a girl, you have to fit the requirements. Is making guidelines of how you should act and look as a gender going too far?
While a girl displaying an interest in her appearance is not inherently sexual, the cultural hivemind that perverts this interest and exploits her self-image only to turn it around and blame the girl once it has garnered negative attention is an inherently sexist construct. When dissecting issues that involve women’s roles in society, one has to take into account the outside influences that have slowly created these roles and their increasingly constricting nature, and not just blame the woman as the source of her own victimization, which just demonstrates a rudimentary lack of knowledge or interest in gender roles. That being said (although it may be tricky to shed the aforementioned crutch), it is entirely possible to offer a critical lens on this particular article, and argue that a young girl is allowed to be vain and express confidence, and that the subsequent sexualisation is not a result of her self-image, but rather a product of media standards, internalized misogyny, and patriarchal constructs. Combe had written her article with an intent to inform, protect, and prevent, gearing towards an audience mainly comprised of parents concerned with the way their daughters were being influenced by the media. Her immediate solutions are to ban certain dolls in the household; encourage girls to abstain from typically feminine behavior and “girlygirl culture”; form more (platonic) relationships with boys, and play sports to develop their sense of confidence and selfworth.
are just a few examples of how women are sexualized, ignored, and not taken seriously in the
In the essay, “You Are What You Say”, by Robin Lakoff, she explains how certain words can be used to degrade an individual. Lakoff makes clear that a girl is someone “. . . who is . . . too immature and too far from real life to be entrusted with responsibilities or with decisions of any serious or important nature” (Lakoff, “You Are What You Say”, pg.3). A girl is someone who cannot be taken seriously. A girl is simply incapable of running a women’s errand, because they are incredibly immature. Yet, women are still referred to as girls, since calling someone a woman is “embarrassing”. She also elaborates on being called a “lady” and how that is degrading as well. She used the example of calling a woman doctor a “lady doctor”, which is extremely degrading since no one calls a man doctor a “gentleman doctor”. Being called a “lady” also implies that she is helpless and not someone to be taken seriously. So, language can and is used to degrade
At a young age people learned sexist ways and how to say things, but they were never told that it was sexist. But as you grow older that’s all you hear is, it’s not mail man is mail deliver or lunch lady it is actually the food server. There are also people that have been taught to not be sexist, those people tend not to be corrected that often. And one of the things that get people the most, is when people think of rolls in society that are given to those men and women. You can also see all forms of sexism being used at school, in sports, or at a job, and also toward both men and women of both past and present and how it is also a big deal in other countries.
I am intrigued with the stereotype because my friends often jokingly called me a “valley girl.” A “valley girl” is a girl who’s primary concern is appearance and shopping. The stereotype originates from privileged and materialistic teenage girls who lived in the San Fernando Valley area. A “valley girl” can be seen in almost every television show or movie, where she serves as the comic relief or antagonist. The movies Mean Girls and Clueless have an entire cast of actresses playing “valley girls.” I can also recall many books that I read as a child that were mainly about valley girls: The Clique series, Gossip Girl, and many
The chant “Girls go to college to get more knowledge; boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider” is commonly recited on the elementary school playground. This sexist chant may seem silly, but elementary aged children are socialized to recognize and accept these roles in Western society. Children receive this socialization through their parents, peers, school, and the media. According to Wheiten et al., gender stereotypes are defined as, “widely shared beliefs about males’ and females’ abilities, personality traits, and social behavior” (Wheiten et al. 227). Girls are stereotypically known to be nurturing, caring, and artistic while boys are generally associated with aggression, assertiveness, and athleticism. Girls are typically given dolls,
What is stereotype? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines stereotype as “believing unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same.” Stereotypes are everywhere. Stereotypes cover racial groups, gender, political groups and even demographic. Stereotypes affect our everyday lives. Sometimes people are judged based on what they wear, how they look, how they act or people they hang out with. Gender and racial stereotypes are very controversial in today’s society and many fall victims. Nevertheless, racial and gender stereotypes have serious consequences in everyday life. It makes individuals have little to no motivation and it also puts a label about how a person should act or live. When one is stereotype they
Author and feminist Alix Kates Shulman said once: “Sexism goes so deep that at first it’s hard to see, you think it’s just reality” (McEneany). That quote sums up perfectly the way our society runs. There is no class teaching children how to act according the their gender. Yet little boys and little girls learn at a very young age what is expected of them. They get ideas about their gender roles from their parents, their school teachers and subconsciously from the toys they play with and the television shows they watch.
I dress extremely girly on most days, and that’s really because I am a girl. But also where I live has an effect on my outfits. For example, in my hometown girls dressed like girls and boys dressed like boys, and if you didn’t follow along with that you were teased about being gay or a lesbian (which I don’t understand how those words are an insult). I never had an issue about dressing femininely, I love dresses, skirts, jewelry, high heels, etc. My fashion choices are heavily influenced by my age. As I grew up, I wasn’t allowed to wear scandalous clothes or wear makeup until I was of proper age. Now that I’m an adult, I can wear whatever I
‘Boys will be boys’, a phrase coined to exonerate the entire male sex of loathsome acts past, present, and potential. But what about the female sex, if females act out of turn they are deemed ‘unladylike’ or something of the sort and scolded. This double standard for men and women dates back as far as the first civilizations and exists only because it is allowed to, because it is taught. Gender roles and cues are instilled in children far prior to any knowledge of the anatomy of the sexes. This knowledge is learned socially, culturally, it is not innate. And these characteristics can vary when the environment one is raised in differs from the norm. Child rearing and cultural factors play a large role in how individuals act and see themselves.
The issue of misogyny has been a problem for decades. Cornell University and the advocacy group “Hollaback!” directed an international survey and found 90% of women in the U.K. first experienced misogyny when they were younger than 17. This means that misogynistic approaches were directed towards children: young girls.
Stereotyping happens everywhere. There is no way to avoid it because every person cannot simply interact with every type of person to get to know who he or she actually is. Due to the impossibility to have personal connections with every time of person, people start to stereotype. Unfortunately, stereotypes almost always tend to be negative. Men have been stereotyping girlfriends since forever.
It is always said that boys and girls are complete opposites as they grow. Girls are seen to be more timid and laid back in physical natures
playing a role of a normal girl who dresses nice and neat all the time