Does a chubby girl have any chance of landing a cute guy? Can a full-figured woman ever have the upper hand in the dating scene? Does being fat mean that guys will only be attracted to you for your personality? Can "big" ever be synonymous with "beautiful"? Believe it or not, chubby girls might actually have an advantage over skinny girls. Let's look at a few of the facts. Did you know that skinny girls weren't considered beautiful until the 1970's? Think about the classic movie starlets for a minute. Some of the most beautiful women of all time, women like Marilyn Monroe and Mae West, weren't skinny at all. If you look back in history more than one hundred years, you'll find that men were almost exclusively fixated on full figured women.
In the film Mean Girls, teenager Cady Heron was home-schooled in Africa by her zoologist parents. When her family moves to the U.S., Cady finally gets a taste of public school and learns a vital lesson about the cruelty involved in the tightly knit cliques of high school. She eventually finds herself being drug into a group of “the worst people you will ever meet”, The Plastics; and soon realizes how they came to get their name.
From the time girls are little, they are taught to be pretty. In Fat is Not A Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen, she explains how she has come to understand that all of the glamorous princesses that little girls look up to are all unrealistically thin, with beauty being their most important asset. She tells her point in a sarcastic and bitter way, showing how this anorexic beauty is not something to look up to and want to become someday. She wants to let the reader know that this romanticizing of skinniness is not a reality.
Advertisements from the 1940s and 50s depicted skinny women as being hopeless in romantic pursuits, noting that gaining weight was their only hope to attract a man.
Stereotyping can happen in numerous ways; one very cruel way of stereotyping would be stereotyping a person for being overweight. People often stereotype others because of beliefs they have learned from their parents or on their own.
In this film we see many typical high school behaviors such as cliques, cattiness, and popularity (or lack there of) issues. Many scenes in this movie have an array of stereotypes. Sometimes they are clearly stated and others just seen through attitudes of the actors/actresses character. Also through out we follow the main clique “the plastics” and they have this image they have to uphold. Be perfect, skinny, the best at everything, and in sync with everything they do; or they wont uphold their status. I chose this film because I think it shows a lot of what we have learned in this course and how it is in real life. Clearly the film is exaggerated but much of
The second you take a step into starbucks with your matching Victoria Secret sweater and sweatpants, people turn your direction, assuming that you are such a “white” girl. Of course, you have to order the best drink for fall, a PSL (pumpkin spice latte), just like every other “white girl”. Soon after, you take a picture of your drink and post it on instagram. Even on instagram, people will comment on your pictures, #whitegirl. When people started commenting these things, the white girl thought that maybe she really was a “white girl.”
...th the modern era defining beautiful as having less weight. (WiseGeek, n.d.) Another argument is that thin is a feminist issue and they just use this as a headline grabber because 39.4 million of Americans suffer from obesity and the British NHS survey of Disordered Eating noted 620 hospital treatments for anorexia or bulimia (with some patients registered twice or more) for 2005 to 2006 as opposed to 17,458 for the same period for obesity. They also argue that more material is being saved when models are thinner and clothes look more elegant and drapes effortlessly on skinnier models. Most models and designers argue that models are not supposed to eat and they are meant to be skinny to sell more clothes or make them look more appealing.
As I watch another fat, ugly guy walk by with a beautiful woman, I can't help but think about the fact that women are constantly judged by their appearance and - even though men seem to think they are judged all the time by appearance - they have MUCH more wiggle room in the appearance department.
Models of Rubens, Rembrandt, Gaugin and Matisse were all rounded, plump women.A plump and healthy women was admired as it reflected wealth and success.(14). Where as images of women have become slimmer since the 1950’s according to Jennifer A. (Australian journal of nutrition and dietetics).
Stereotypes about short people not being able to play sports are sometimes true in some cases. Short people can’t do certain things in sports like in volleyball you can’t be a hitter and in basketball they can’t be a post. Short people just can’t do things taller people can do, being a tall person in basketball is helpful if you’re the post because it’s an easy bucket. Being a hitter in volleyball is the easiest job for a tall person mainly because they can reach over the net easily. If a player was short they wouldn’t be able to hit because they couldn’t jump that high. Some other stereotypes are true like how they don’t get scholarships that much. Most of the athletes who get stereotypes are taller people because they can contribute more.
Skinny was not the most beautiful thing to people, and it was not as big of an issue as it is now. So where did the ideals change from curvy being beautiful to skin-and-bones skinny being beautiful? In the 1960 's, popular figures like Twiggy promoted being skinny as beautiful, around the same time the Barbie doll became popular with young girls (Bahadur). Sure, many people are actually born skinny. But some are born big-boned and cannot help that they are that way - and they should not have to worry about it. However, we as a society have changed these ideals because we are constantly exposed to the media 's rendition of what being beautiful should mean and accepting it. The fact that being bigger used to mean that someone was wealthy just goes to show that our culture has completely thrown this principle away. But, however appalling the issue may be, there are solutions to this terrible problem that is still on the rise and hope that it will get better. Instead of letting these vulnerable people look at magazine covers and wish they were in different skin, our duty as a society is to promote the embracement of beauty and self-confidence in everyone. Motivational speakers, many of which have had their own share of self-esteem issues in the past, need to be brought to the surface and get their messages out in the open even more than they already are. Jessica
Skinny, young, and living in his mother's basement; these stereotypes are depictions of how the media sees majority of the audience that participates in video game activities. Instead of letting these stereotypes rain true in most situations, let’s change it one person at a time. The best gamers don’t have to be living off their parents for financial support in their mother's basement, they can have a job and a more glorified place to game. We will throw out the young and skinny stereotype because you aren’t getting any younger and your physical activity was thrown out the door years ago with the introduction of monday night football. In all seriousness, there are many positive benefits from which older person can reap. Most video games help the brain and body, providing a challenge to the elderly’s everyday lives. Older people tend to have a drop-off in social interaction as they age; video games can help to fill that social void (Schutter). Not only am I
Lesley Hornby was given the nickname “Twiggy” for her attenuated body, although she claimed to be naturally skinny, she revolutionized the fashion world in the late 1960’s. Models before her were curvaceous and lively looking, but her look began the trend of under eating and starving one’s self. Twiggy may have converted the desired look from the “hourglass” to more lanky and gaunt, but she also altered the fashion world for girls who were flat-chested and were not what they called perfect in the 1950’s and early 60’s. Stick-thin 1960’s British supermodel Twiggy became famous not just because she was thin, but for being someone who was not perfectly seen in the public eye but was confident enough to carry herself the was she was. She modeled her distinct thin boyish look which made her a living legend in the fashion industry, making her a reminiscent of the late 1960’s.
Personally i've been judge with all these girly girl stereotypes. People always think the worst of me seeing that my appearance falls under being girly, but half of them have never talked to me to get to know who I really am. I have been grouped as a girly girl for many years since I like to wear cute outfits on a daily basis, enjoy wearing makeup and I like sparkly items. Just because I like these common girly girl things does not mean I am ignorant, rude or preppy.
There are many determinants for this conviction in society. However, the major cause for this conviction is the media. Rarely does society see a female celebrity that is not skinny. If a female has any fat on her bones, she is not attractive and cannot be considered beautiful. All of the top most beautiful women in the media are extremely skinny. Not once will the public see an overweight woman on a top most beautiful women list. Actresses often accredit not getting a role in a film to not being skinny enough. They will then take drastic measures to lose weight. To make matters worse, all too often that actress is already too skinny and yet she still strives to lose more weight. Women are striving for an unattainable body figure that is portrayed by the media as being the ideal standard for today's women. This even shows up in the magazines women read. It has been a proven fact that women often feel depressed after looking at the pictures of models in the magazines they read. These models are portrayed as if they are the cultural norm. If women d...