Persuasive Speech On Sexualizing Underage Women
Anecdote - Imagine you are a young girl, nothing has really tainted your innocence, in an everyday routine. You go to school, deciding to wear knee high socks, as you would do when you were younger . You enter school happily, eager to learn. After a few lessons a teacher comes up to you, one of your favourites. You feel a weight coming down on you when she utters the words, "Sorry, but you can't wear these. Senior pupils have complained to me that your socks are distracting and provocative." Those words come as a surprise to you, not only because you're young, but also because the class of the pupils she mentioned would mean that adults were finding your attire provocative. How would you feel? What would your reaction be? Would you feel maybe dirty or ashamed? However that's only one case of adults sexualizing underage girls, consequently events like the one mentioned before happen all the time, all across the world. Young, underage girls being sexualized is not a rare thing happening and you're about to see why it's so wrong.
P I - There are many consequences and negative results of sexualizing young girls. It often results in stress, anxiety, in addition to putting a lot of pressure on the girls once they've been sexualized to the extent that it becomes normal for them. It affects their mental health from a young age and it interferes with their intellectual performance. A similar theory was provided and tested by Barbara Frederickson on college students
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But for female students, the swimming suit experience had a more negative effect: Women performed significantly worse on the math test after changing into the bathing suit.
A subsequent study found that both sexes were adversely affected by the swimming suit experience (Hebl et al 2004). Does something akin to the “stupid swimming suit” effect apply to our kids? Nobody yet has done the research. But it seems rather
P I - There are many consequences and negative results of sexualizing young girls. It often results in stress, anxiety, in addition to putting a lot of pressure on the girls once they've been sexualized to the extent that it becomes normal for them. It affects their mental health from a young age and it interferes with their intellectual performance. A similar theory was provided and tested by Barbara Frederickson on college students
"Barbara Frederickson …show more content…
But for female students, the swimming suit experience had a more negative effect: Women performed significantly worse on the math test after changing into the bathing suit.
A subsequent study found that both sexes were adversely affected by the swimming suit experience (Hebl et al 2004). Does something akin to the “stupid swimming suit” effect apply to our kids? Nobody yet has done the research. But it seems rather