Authors note: This is a creative piece that I wrote over a couple of days. It is about how society forces us to do things that we don't even realize they could be potentially hurting us. This is about why our society is bad for us. It tells us what looks good, when in reality it is hurting us.
"Ew, you're not a size zero? That's Gross!" That's what society tell us is acceptable. Being so thin that you can see the outline of your bones. "Oh you don't wear makeup.." Society tell us that if you don't wear makeup you're not beautiful. "You don't have a boyfriend.." Society makes it seems like you are "forever alone," if you don't have a boyfriend. "You haven't had your first kiss?!" To society you are prude, but on other hands if you have had your first kiss you are "easy," to get with. We didn't choose to be this way, we were forced and molded to fit society's idea of perfection. When reality is who cares if you aren't a size 0? Who gives a crap if you wear makeup of not? You're not forever alone if you don't have a boyfriend. It doesn't matter if you have had your first kiss or not. Honestly, it is your life, you just need to make yourself happy, not society.
The girls of today are being forced to diet and fast at younger and younger ages because they aren't "normal," according to society. There are proven facts that girls who starved themselves are more likely to develop an eating disorder. Girls that are admitted into anorexic facility s are getting younger and younger every year. Some girls that are admitted are as young as 8. I think one of the main factors is that they want to be society's definition of beautiful, Size 0 or smaller. These girls are 8, they haven't even hit puberty and they are worrying about their weight. Girls aspire to have the body of a model, tall and thin. To most girls the height doesn't even worry them. All they hear is thin. It is constantly reminding them, " You're striving to be thin. Do you want to be as skinny as her or not. Not eating makes you thinner. Don't eat no more calories. " When reality is that if you are not eating you are not losing weight at all. You are actually gaining weight. You store more fat calories in your body to help you from not starving. Being able to see all your rib bones also isn't perfection. It's like looking at a skeleton with a thin almost transparent layer of skin.
With being thin to the bone girls as little as 8 are wearing full blown makeup to school. With our society by that age they are insecure about their faces. Why should these little girls be insecure about their faces and bodies when they don't have zits or boobs yet? They have nothing that the other little girls their age don't have. Mother who wear makeup tend to influence their little girls to want to wear makeup because they always wear makeup and are never seen without it. I believe that this makes the girls think that they must never ever been seen without makeup, even at that young of a age. They are showing up to school in full blow eyeliner and mascara. Then by the time they should be starting to wear makeup, they are wearing too much or wearing really dark colors making it look inappropriate. Girls are wearing makeup because society tells them that makeup is the only way to have "true beauty". What society also tells us about makeup is that you can't just wear a little you have to wear a lot if you want to look like the girls that advertise that makeup.
Wearing makeup makes you "pretty," and you have to be "pretty," to have a boyfriend. I agree it is okay to have crushes in elementary but I don't think that it is okay to have a boyfriend when you are elementary school. Girls are more worried about having or not having a boyfriend than rather being focused on getting good grades and hanging out with your friends. Girls are worried about this because even the 10-12 year old celebrities have boyfriends that they are “ in love,” with. This makes little girls think that they need to have a boyfriend to be cool. That if they want to be like the 10-12 year old celebrities.
That is why girls want a boyfriend at such a young age, but then they get judged about what they do with their boyfriend. If they haven’t kisses they are lame and a loser. Some may even call them prude, but if they have done anything they are now all the sudden easy to get with. First of all, these girls are in elementary to middle school. Yes, must admit I think it is okay to kiss boys, but they shouldn’t be doing any more than that. For the ones in elementary they shouldn’t even know what things past maybe making out are. Second of all, it isn’t the whole worlds business if you have boyfriend or not and if you do if you have kissed or anything. In my opinion it is between you and your boyfriend and maybe your best friend who you can trust to keep that secret.
No matter what we do or what we look like we can never please society. I think the only way we would be able to please it, is if everyone looked like a barbie, “Perfect.” You get judged no matter what you look like. What jean size you wear. If you have a boyfriend or not. Who you hang out with. Anything you could possibly think of you get judged on. Why must society do this to us? I doubt we will never know. Society should know something too, no one will ever be perfect or even close to it. Society isn’t perfect either.
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