Girls, Girls, Girls. What has Society Done to us?

The question to answer is not, "What's Wrong With Girls?", but "What Does Society Do to Girls?" Posts that have been written list what society does or how society views girls in generlizations.

Conversations struck up when people made generlizations about boys; so how is writing about girls or what we add to our writing as a whole any different? Gender aside, it is proven that who you surround yourself with, their actions tend to rub off on you. Many people don't want to claim that their impressionable; to say so would be a weakness in their eyes. I myself agree, I don't want to say that those around me leave an impression, an impression so great that my actions mirror theirs. I want to be "Myself". (That in itself is a humerous thought. When you think about it, when if ever do you really know who you are.)

Society in the United States, is about the "Perfect Image", from coner stores to huge malls, there are images of the idealilistic people, couples, and families. The one obsticle of the perfect anything is the sentence that our parents always said, " You Can Be Anything You Want To Be." That sentence is the curse of the perfect image.

You would think that it would be the fuel to the fire for the perfect image. Sadly if you don't bend to the guidelines set before our time, you are pushed aside and forgotten all because you strive to be yourself. This goes for male or female. How many times have you heard of a son taking over the family business? How many times have you heard of a daughter going into a field that suits more to societies liking then to her own? All because she didn't want to be labled as "Different". These examples go for anybody.

For generations men were considered the breadwinners, women were the homebodies. Not only were the roles set in stone for the adults, but even the children from kindergarden to highschool, had personal obligations to their families to be seen as the "normal, ideal household," My grandmother remembers going to school in dresses and skirts, making sure that skirts covered her ankles. Whereas today, indiviuals dress to the bare minimum.

Slur words to describe "unruly" girl behavior where whispered under breaths and said behind closed doors. Truthfully the girls behavior is nothing that is standards for today. To even be associated with these girls brought the harsh rumors on you. You may laugh, but just look down the school halls, the actions being displayed is beyond the imagination of the past generations, let alone the words that we throw at each other every day.

To critizie any gender for behaviors is unethical, when really you can't call anyone "Normal". When you peel back the layers to the bare esstineals, the norm for society is different for every indiviual.