Okay? Not okay.

As a teenage girl, I am familiar with the pressures that society puts on people to look a certain way.  Discussing the effects people have on the space they take up and how women are objectified in society, I immediately thought of the show Toddlers and Tiaras.  From an early age, girls are thought of as objects to many people.  In the show Toddlers and Tiaras, the toddlers are judged on their outside appearance, wearing tons of makeup and provocative outfits.  Such young girls are being taught that to go far in life, they must use their looks to facilitate their success.

   

 Since people do not choose how they look, they should not be rewarded for being “beautiful”.  As the young girl becomes a teenager, again, she will face the issue of having to look a certain way to fit in.  Advertising plays a huge role into who the teenagers look up to and want to be like.  The people that the girls look up to, are transformed to look completely different and to what society deems as “flawless” using Photoshop and an enormous amount of makeup.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omBfg3UwkYM

Even songs nowadays, try to convince people that a woman's only use is to look good.   In the song Blurred Lines, three topless women are shown, where the men are dressed in suits showing that, according to Tsion Abera, “The video demonstrates a clear power dynamic, in which the men are dominant and the women are treated simply as sex objects”(Tsion Abera).  The difference between the space women and men take up is completely different and this needs to change.