Feminist Social Experiment

I remember as a young child, wondering why some people who liked female were not wearing pink and ruffles or why they weren’t wearing makeup. The social movement used to relate to the social experiment conducted was the Women’s liberation movement, also called feminists movement. Feminism is “support of social equality for women and men in opposition to patriarchy and sexism” (Macionis, 2017). The following paragraphs will discuss how the social experiment was conducted, and how literature influenced feminists activists to make a change on how women are treated and how women want to express themselves. The social experiment conducted was closely related to feminism and how females should look, but the norm of women wearing makeup and ruffles

Dressed in unisex clothing, no makeup or hair done,like usual. I browsed the makeup section, and men’s clothing section. Some men's clothing was in the cart and I held a beige purse. During broking the norm, many people starred at me as I grabbed the men’s clothing and held it up to myself. I tried not to communicate with my friend as she observed the others watching me. I believe that some children, girls were affected the most. One little girl said to her mom “ why is that girl dressed as a boy? I want to dress like that!” I feel as if many children looked at me and wondered why I looked like I was dressed more masculine, rather than more feminine. The children also probably wondered why I was in the men's section instead of the women's section. I do not believe males were affected in the process of conducting the social experiment unless they felt uncomfortable that I was shopping in their section of clothing. My target was to influence women who do not like dressing feminine to dress how they want and not let anyone bother them. I kind of felt awkward making the changes to myself because usually I wear a lot of makeup and a v neck type of shirt with skinny jeans or sometimes a dress. So it dress out of my comfort zone was a little odd. Breaking the norms I felt nervous and a little unsteady. I second guessed myself multiple times while walking into the men’s section. My friend kept laughing at me and at first I couldn’t make it look like I was seriously shopping for men’s clothing. Soon I got over it and just broke the norm. It was pretty difficult to break the norm, as many people I knew were walking past and saying hi and I did not look like my normal self. It was very difficult for me not to talk to others about what I was doing. Mostly because I knew some of the people and they asked why I was not dressed like myself. It was hard to keep character or what I was trying to portray when