My photo shows two sisters watching their mother while she gets ready. Every day they watch her get ready for work and see how she focuses on her appearance. They watch her put on pretty clothes, pay extra attention to her makeup and spend time making her hair look pretty. Their mother, Amber is a single mom so they use her as a model to how they should imitate certain behavior. They see that their mom is pretty and they want to look just like her. They assume this is how all girls should look. As she sits and “does herself up” they watch and do the same. They are dressed in pretty clothes with headbands in their hair. They are wearing their mothers high heeled shoes because they know when she stands up to leave she will be wearing a pair as well. The older sister looks at her mother while she does her little sisters makeup. Everyday it is important to the sisters to look pretty when they get ready for school. They pick out the prettiest outfits and make sure their hair is brushed. It is what their mom does so it must be what they do as well. This behavior is learned. They were not born knowing how to do these things or with the feeling that appearance is important to them. This is an aspect of the socialization of gender. Little girls imitating other females.
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Ashley I agree with everything that you said how little girls imitate their mothers and other females. I remember trying to dress like my mother and play dress up wearing dresses exactly like the ones the Disney characters wore. I wanted to look like them and be them because that’s what I grew up watching and wanting to be, which can be very dangerous in the long run because as I grew older I wanted to look more and more like other girls did. As I entered elementary and middle school it got worse. I wanted to wear the same brands the other girls were wearing; I wanted to have my hair exactly how all the other girls were wearing theirs. Beauty is a beast pushes girls into the direction where they felt like I did, pressured to fit in and by doing that I had to conform instead of being my person. These high standards are marked for all girls of every age to change their appearance to look like these models that are very thin or have big breast. It’s very hard growing up. The trends are constantly changing and the social media markets women in a negative light.
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