Sunday, March 5, 2017

You're exsitence is wrong


If your skirt is above your fingertips you’re a slut. If you’re tough you’re a dyke. If you wear glasses you’re a geek. And if you’re blonde you’re stupid. Every time a women walks in any room she is judged by her peers, by her employers, by her parents even by those who have never met her and know nothing about her. In Tannen’s piece she talks about how women are forced to be judged but men “unlike the women, they had the option of being unmarked”. My brother could wake up, roll out of bed and show up to school in the same t-shirt and sweatpants he slept in and no one would say a thing. If I show up like that people would ask why I am wearing that or think I’m sick because I don’t have makeup on. Women have to live up to the expectation of beauty. We are expected to wear makeup and do our hair and look like we care about how we look. Every part of women is judged even her mental state. Women who cut themselves are called “attention whores” but this doesn’t mean men aren’t judged. Men who cut themselves are considered “pansies”. Men are still judged in their in circle but for different things. Men tend to be judged for showing emotion and not for their outfit. It is also easier for men to fly under the radar. Women are forced into boxes based on how they look while men can wander free from box to box. How is this fair?


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