This photo entitled "Look Your Best" was taken to show what a female does and sees in the mirror as she takes hours to get ready to go out compared, to what a male does to get ready to go out. I think this is because in our society there is a lot of pressure on females, especially on how they look. This is largely learned in adolescence because many young females are watching television and reading magazines that portray the image that beauty and fashion is very important to women. This hasn't happened just in today's society but from generation to generation. A young girl watches her mother take hours getting ready to go out by doing her hair, makeup, and going through many outfits till she finds the right one. While dad is usually waiting patiently till she is ready to go. This is learned behavior for a female and this trait is carried out as she grows form a young child to a teenager and then to an adult. So why is it that a male doesn't go through these long daily rituals as a women? This is because society doesn't put pressure on males as it does females to look their best and to be fashionable. For example, if a female had ripped up jeans, a dingy tee shirt and a baseball cap on many people might look at her as if she were a tomboy, lesbian, or someone who just doesn't take care of herself. Yet there is no problem if a male wears something similar. So in order for women to be considered presentable in public she must do these daily rituals of doing her hair, makeup and keeping up with the latest fashion trends.
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In response on the subject of males not being as pressured as females are in society, I feel is not true. Yes, women do have more standards and are expected to always look presentable but, males are always expected to look or act in certain ways as well. Usually, women are generalized to look their best, while men are expected to act like they don't really care about what they are wearing or how presentable they look. Leading to, if a man does care about how he looks, he is looked upon as a girly-man or metro-sexual. People may not realize every little detail but, society has a lot of double standards within itself.
In looking at the picture the girl looks young but you can still tell she is definitely concerned about her hair makeup and physcial appearnce being perfect in prepartion to start her day.
I like how you point out that if a women looks unkept, that automatically makes her a lesbian in todays society, while on the other hand it is almost normal or expected for a man to look grungy. Not only is it unfair, but it gives off the feeling to me and probably others as well that the only reason why it is necessary for girls to get so dressed up is to impress men. If that is the case, then I think it is time for men to start putting as much effort as women do into their outside appearance.
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