Women

So i had to wrote a paper for sociology about something in popular culture that has had an impact on me. The first thing i thought of was Victorias Secret since i work there. It was all about VS's commercials and thier imapct on women self image. I was also taking a history class this quarter about american women and the family. Its funny, i feel like im a total feminist now! lol! Oh, and i also watched "mean girls" tonight...so im all about women talk right now!

On this topic, there is a lot of opinions and things to consider. Why are women so conserned with beauty and self image? Why are women so mean to each other? Can a women ever REALLY accept herself? Who created this image of beauty? Why are women the sex that has to be pretty? Is it because we are delicate and weak? Why does the media continue to portray women in the domestic role if we haev greater opportunities? Are women truly more equal? We discussed in my history class the emergance of cosmetics in the early 19th century and how marketing for makeup created an image of how women should look like. It also helped women in the 1920's express their liberation through makeup, but it was the makeup companies themselves that created the belief that makeup created female independance. So my next question: has the market created womenhood/femininity as a way to keep the economy going? Are women keeping the economy going? If women were to accept themselves and take a more masculine role would the economy calapsed? In the end it is women who shop for clothes, food, and household necessities. Just look at a mall, i want to say that the mall is like maybe 90% female retail(if you take out all the food places!). We had to read an article by Betty Friedan that discussed the marketing in the 1950's. We know that that was the most consumerist period of US history. Some interesting things is that they created products for women to stay inside the house which made them beleive that they were supposed to be housewives and that this was fulfilling. They created housewives or at least they defined housewifery(?).

All these victorias secret models are gorgeous! Commercials are filled with makeup and clothes and shit to maek women want them, to make women think that this is beauty! It seems like the media creates womenhood.

Mean girls ends with Lindsay sayin that "it dosent matter if you call someone fat, ugly, etc....thats not goign to make me win"...or something liek that! But we all know this but we still tlak about other girls! Even the nice, perfect girls!!! I dotn know if it is possible to accept each other in a big sisterhood world or ourself. I beleive it is simple human nature to gossip and talk abotu others,but is it? It seem like this issue of self esteem has come about with the turn of the century, but is it just the media again? Didnt women before concerne themselves with dresses and used corsetts which hurt like a motha! i know! i used one for my quinceanera. But where does this coem from? this need for beauty? the pain, time consumption women go through for beauty. It is because of men? In my communications class we tlaked abotu how men are more interested in womens beauty then women are. so have men created this self image and beauty for women? how did it evolve? there is always all this tlak that men and women look for a partner that is best for reproduction and that is a reason why people choose a partner. but i wonder if this is true in our society. Do people really look for the one partner who is the msot beautiful of the most reprodcutively capable? why is pain associated with beauty?......SO many questions....but im tired now, but i will surely come back to adress this issue again. I have a lot to say about this but i think i will organize it better!

next post will be on men.

keep Gabbing everyone!