The photo recognizes gender socialization in a teenage girl. Teenage girls are pressured and influenced through their parents, friends, environment, and most of all, the media. The entertainment industry lays huge demands on young girls to be perfectly beautiful and manicured twenty-four seven. Magazines such as Teen Vogue, Teen People, Elle, or Seventeen provide girls with how-to tips and airbrushed pictures as portrayals of what they should strive to conform to. When teenage girls conform to these impossible demands they give up the right to their individuality, therefore losing themselves in the process. The vantage point from where the photo was taken represents this idea perfectly. Each individual was placed on this earth to represent their own unique gifts and to be their own self and the layout contributes to the fact that young girls will copy whatever the media is telling them looks good, or fashionable. The excessive application of makeup that some young girls go through to look like the “perfect” women in the magazines is ludicrous, for not even those women look like that in person. If a teenage girl does not conform to the “proper” look society looks down upon her. She will be shut out from the girls who do conform and come across as the girl who is ugly, unpopular, geeky, unwanted, socially unacceptable, etc. Why must girls be made to feel this way? What can we change in our society to prevent teenage girls from losing their individuality and their own beliefs?
2 comments:
The nail polishand the magizine and the other female products is showing that she is the typical teenage girl wrapped up in the media and blinded by the materialistic things. The ring on the teenagers finger could be repersenting that she is planning on getting married and following the role of the american women. To have beauty be an important factor in her life and to focus that beauty on getting a man.
The fact that her face is not shown in the picture shows how she is embarrassed to show her face. Also the magazine on the table shows how young girls look up to these magazines to look beautiful.
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