fake is the new "real"

This implies that having a tiny waist is more attractive than a usual figure. This leads young girls to believe that the only way their body would be appreciated is if they have the same frame as Mulan. Mulan’s figure seemed average and the females in her family who were helping her get dressed in order to be presentable they used a fabric ribbon lace material to tighten her waist. This extremely emphasized in the movie giving the message that the only way your family will accept you is if you are thin. This Disney princess is over-sexualized because she uses her appearance to attain luxuries.

Not only is Barbie tall, skinny, and beautiful, she has all the luxurious accessories to match her perfect life. To go along with her perfect life she is accompanied with the perfect boyfriend, family and dream house.At a young age girls are also being influenced by this doll, what they should look like, and what kind of life they sgould lead. Young girls strive to achieve this look which is life threatening to obtain. Regardless to the changes they made to Barbie, she is still far from real. Little girls that are mature enough don’t strive to look like Barbie because she’s just a plastic doll.

The girl thus lets people push her in the direction of society’s standard of beauty, instead of affirming her own unique beauty. The third stanza starts off saying, “She was advised to play coy, / exhorted to come on hearty, / exercise, diet, smile and wheedle” (12-14). In the girls’ mind she is becoming completely fake to herself to make society happy; this in turn makes her dissatisfied. She soon grows tired of pretending and, “cut[s] off her nose and her legs (17).

Society tells her to "play coy" and "exercise, diet, smile and wheedle" . She hears and interprets it to mean that she is nothing but a "fat nose on thick legs". Since our girlchild's mirror did not reflect a barbie doll, she killed herself. To be more accurate she "she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up". And society graciously welcomed her sacrifice, and says "Doesn't she look pretty?".

Girls are basically told from the beginning that in order to be “successful like Barbie” you need to have a small waist, a big chest, skinny legs, and little, perfect “heel-fitted feet.” Images like this allow for women to participate in harmful acts, such as plastic surgery, anorexia, and bulimia, in order to become what they “should be.” Women are so concerned with having that perfect figure, they are no longer able to see themselves for who they truly are, which in some cases isn 't as bad as they make it to be. Women become so engulfed in the idea of becoming beautiful that they soon believe that nothing on its own can be beautiful. Beauty is now something that needs to be bought or attained, and is no longer a natural attribute. Surgeries and “life style change” diets are now the only solutions to being considered beautiful.

Anybody can be happy in the body they already have. It is the ideal body found in advertising that sets the beauty standards, influences women to lose weight, and then leaves them with weight loss options that do not work, therefore, no way to the happiness they seek. History The concept of the ideal body type has rem... ... middle of paper ... ... life. Living the way we want without trying to meet unrealistic standards is true beauty. Together we can overcome the beauty standards set by society and begin to live our happiest, healthiest, and most beautiful lives yet.

A dictionary definition of perfect is: 1. complete, having all its essential qualities 2. faultless, excellent 3. exact, precise 4. entire, total(1). Now does this seem like a reasonable goal to strive for? Absolutely not, it is impossible, yet so many teenage girls feel that perfection is within their reach. Society plays a massive role in influencing our lives and our judgment. The emphasis placed on looking good in our society clouds our vision of what is truly important.

But there were some things Ella could just walk right into, so th... ... middle of paper ... ...-to-girl meanness, whether she was the victim, victimizer, or bystander. I know first hand the effects of girl-to-girl meanness. I don’t want any other girl to ever go through what I did. With Snotty is Naughty, I want to end girl-to-girl meanness once and for all. I was blessed enough to be able to overcome my “mean girl” and turn all that negative into something positive for Snotty is Naughty, but not every girl is that fortunate.

Snow White eagerly embodied all of these traits. She is even compared to a doll in Anne Sexton’s adaptation of the tale, “...rolling her china-blue doll eyes open and shut” (Sexton 102). These same ideas are still prevalent in our society today, where it is often considered rude for women to accept compliments given to them, or to suggest that they consider themselves attractive. Women are taught that humility and bashfulness are more desirable than confidence and self-assurance, traits that happen to be demanded of men. Maybe the name of the Evil Queen should be changed to be the Confident

She appeared in Vanity Fair Magazine looking slightly thinner than normal, and many people were judging Winslet for being hypocritical. Winslet’s rep said that she was not airbrushed to look thinner, that that is how she looks, and that she would not have agreed to take the pictures if it were not under her conditions (Norman, 2008). Why was there such a controversy over pictures of Kate Winslet? Television, movies, magazines, and advertisements are all plastered with smiling faces and practically unattainable beauty. This sends a message to young girls that they need to look perfect in order to be happy in life.