Sad Girl

From: Taylor

For my photo blog assignment, I tried to show the socialization of gender in children. The picture depicts a 10-year old African American girl, applying make-up in the mirror. Her hair is braided back and not out which could suggest she is kind of restricted who shows introverted characteristics.  The girl is wearing a sparkly blue shirt with purple lettering this is ensures gender appropriate treatment from society and according to  gender statistics anything sparkly or bedazzled is  associated with females. The bold gold heart necklace to the “girly room” as people would call it because of the purple walls pink mirror. In the picture the girl is eyes are watering as if she is about to cry.  Girls approaching their teenage years are more worried about how their bodies look way earlier than young girls use to be. I can identify with this because I don’t think I fully understood my body was changing until I got my period for the first time one night before basketball practice.  Young girls today through a lot in today’s society with trying to look a certain way, dress and or act a certain way, they try to look like what is portrayed in the media with skinny bodies and full long hair this is their definition of beauty. For most girls this is not reality. Like the girl in the picture she is a chubby African American girl.

                  This picture shows gender socialization because it shows how girls who are about to reach their teenage years are trained and are already experiencing things, like wearing make-up.  The girl putting on make –up shoes the insecurity that adolescent’s go through about their bodies when they are transitioning to woman hood. The picture is kind of blurred and dark because when girls are adolescents girls are growing up and their bodies are changing they begin to become depressed  because of the pressures by the media and or peer pressure from other girls at school to look a certain way.