The picture is a statement of inner and outer appearance; especially amongst girls. You see a girl in a skirt, dressed up pretty and playing her female role. She sees herself for the person she is, not the "tomboy", not the "girly girl", just a girl that wants to be herself and is faced with judgments and stereotypes. Where you see her in all her confidence, inside she's really tormenting herself, annoyed at the role she's playing into that's been defined by society and what she should be.
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The picture I chose had no title. The author was Rachel. I found this picture to be very insightful. The girl seemed to be looking in the mirror and seeing what she thinks she should look like. She feels to be accepted she needs to wear revealing clothes. She really just wants to be herself in jeans and a tee shirt. She seems to look at the unnatural image with disdain. How did she let society rule how she should look to be beautiful. What's wrong with being yourself? Would anyone want to be with her if they knew she was putting on a disguise? Would they think she was ugly?
I noticed that even the blinds are drawn when she looks at the real her.
This photograph definitely portrays an excellent example of gender socialization. The struggle between what society constructs as acceptable and what the girl really wants to wear is evident. Her “outer appearance” is very mature looking for her age, with the sparkled skirt and top. Whereas, the “inner appearance” seems a lot more relaxed. You can tell that she would be more comfortable in just her jeans and a t-shirt. Also, the fact that there is a guitar on the t-shirt is interesting because it can represent how her talented or creative side is forced to be masked by the more mature looking “outer appearance.” The girl looks fine in both outfits but the fact that she chose the more mature look represents our socialized society and the gender roles we play into.
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This picture does a good job showing what girls are really like in the way that they arent usually acting like themselves when they get dressed up. And the picture not only has the girl dressed up it also has the girls normal counterpart looking back at her dressed up self almost in shock because of how much that part of her is far from her original self.
I like this picture because it is something that all girls go to. While boys get to wear lose fitting baggy clothes, and that is acceptable, girls have to wear tight, uncomfortable clothes to look "good." This girl is shown dressed in a short skirt and tightly fitting top, but is shown as rather being herself, in jeans and a t-shirt. Fashion differences between girls and boys is somewhat unfair.
The pressures to conform can be overwhelming, particullary in women. I feel that a girls weight is somethign that can practically control her everyday life. Worrying about eating certain things and focusing on looking physically attrative is prevailent in practically all of the women in my life. If you simply listen to a group of friends or family members getting ready to go out somwhere i bet you will find that the girls are constantly unhappy with the way they look and they most certainly will take a longer time getting ready, while the males seem to getting ready in a shorter time and i highly doubt you will hear them say " i look fat in these pants" , or "my hair is just not working for me tonight".
This is a realy neat picture because how many girls really feel this way when they look in front of the mirror. They can look absolutely fine and perfect but what they see is not what you see. They feel as if they look terrible. its craziness.
In Rachel's picture you can see her facial expressions seem to be confused, and frustrated. She doesn't know why she can't just be comfortable in her own skin. No matter what she wears, she still doesn't seem like she feels she fits in with society. The media makes feels feel unsatisfied with their bodies if they don't look like supermodels. What they need to realize is, even super models don't look that good. They have money to make themselves look good, along with many different stylists to make them look like they truely have achieved "perfection".
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