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Two thousand years ago, a five year old girl would not have stuck her hand on her hip in a sexually provocative manner; today is a whole different story. A girl around five years old is dressed in a pink leotard and is dancing in a mature, Beyonce-esque manner. Before she can read, she is already learning how to sexualize herself because someone had to have taught her those moves. But dancing is not the only length girls go through to look sexually attractive. They also put themselves through unhealthy eating habits like starving themselves or counting calories. If these still do not allow them to feel perfect, which they hardly do because in our culture you are never good enough, girls will also willingly participate in unnecessary enhancement surgeries. If they do not perceive their nose as perfect enough, they will go under the knife for a mere five thousand dollars. For some women, the cost means little as long as they perceive themselves as looking better. Young girls are watching their role models, like Britney Spears or Ashley Tisdale, surgically enhance their bodies to make them "perfect," and are learning to associate fake with ideal.
Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture photography book grapples with the way girls act in regards to their looks in today's society; I tried to cover this in my revised paragraph because her point of view of the camera only focusing on girls captures girl culture more accurately and intimately. I tried to mix in society's follies like obsession with weight and body curves and how young girls watch their role models participate in these activities. A little girl dancing provocatively was not innovative, but rather stolen from the mature music videos she is watching and copying. Society, parents, and adults need to understand that they must let their child be a child, and not grow up so quickly as a sexually mature adult by the age of ten. I tried to emulate the speakers tone of outrage at the lengths girls take to look like a Playboy bunny or Beyonce. Girls are going to far, to young trying to look like the Britney Spears.
Link to outline
I looked at Kat Reidy's and Michael Gee's blog.
This post was great! I love that you acknowledged other stars today and how they have enhanced their bodies such as Brittany Spears and Ashley Tisdale. My only suggestion is to make sure to discuss how you used SOAPSTone! Great job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Gabi, this analysis is very well done! And it was obvious that you did use SOAPStone, however part of the assignment was to include a paragraph about how you used it, so make sure to include that to get all of the credit available to you in the assignment! Awesome job!
ReplyDeleteGood blog post, you did well in writing based off of your sections in the outline. However, it could perhaps be better with explaining how counting calories is unhealthy. In regards to your SOAPSTone paragraph (I'm assuming it's the one above the outline link, seems to be some confusion to whether or not it exists) I felt like you covered some parts of SOAPSTone, but I couldn't find other parts of it (if this is intentional, then maybe explain why.)
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