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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