Girl Stereotypes
Throughout my life I have heard the term “you throw like a girl” used when someone throws soft and weak. This is a representation of society's views on girls and women, that they are weak, bad, unintelligent. The life of being a girl is waking up knowing as soon as you walk out of the house your are going to face these stereotypes. These stereotypes plague girls life at school, at work even at home. I don't believe that girls are weak or stupid, when I hear the word girl I think warrior. Girls are tenacious, intelligent individuals, with the mindset for success. Even when girls are told that they can’t, they take that negative energy and use it to fuel their success.
Girls are strong
Now, I am not talking about girls being physically strong here, seeing as though …show more content…
If for some reason you don't believe that women are fighting for their jobs and winning here’s a statistic, in the year 1900 fewer than 20% of women were in the labor market but now the number is approximately 75% and growing. Along with all of this we can look at my doctor, this women graduated with a bachelor's degree from Harvard as well as a doctorate degree from ucla. Yet, when she went in to get her first job at a hospital the first question she was asked was “how many words can you type per minute”. I thought this was outrageous, she sits here with a harvard and ucla degree and she’s basically told that she's going to be secretary. Now if she was weak maybe she would have accepted this, but she was a strong woman. She now sits with her Harvard degree on her office wall.
Girls are put under pressure under pressure, she became a diamond, under pressure she became unbreakable. Girls are put under insane amounts of pressure yet somehow we withstand the pressure and stay strong. For example, I go on any social media platform and I see people talking about who or what is body goals. You see guys talking about what they want in a girl, you see girls judging girls who aren’t
Girls are strong
Now, I am not talking about girls being physically strong here, seeing as though …show more content…
If for some reason you don't believe that women are fighting for their jobs and winning here’s a statistic, in the year 1900 fewer than 20% of women were in the labor market but now the number is approximately 75% and growing. Along with all of this we can look at my doctor, this women graduated with a bachelor's degree from Harvard as well as a doctorate degree from ucla. Yet, when she went in to get her first job at a hospital the first question she was asked was “how many words can you type per minute”. I thought this was outrageous, she sits here with a harvard and ucla degree and she’s basically told that she's going to be secretary. Now if she was weak maybe she would have accepted this, but she was a strong woman. She now sits with her Harvard degree on her office wall.
Girls are put under pressure under pressure, she became a diamond, under pressure she became unbreakable. Girls are put under insane amounts of pressure yet somehow we withstand the pressure and stay strong. For example, I go on any social media platform and I see people talking about who or what is body goals. You see guys talking about what they want in a girl, you see girls judging girls who aren’t