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The topic of my second formal paper is using the material
that we have learned in class about men and women being objectified through advertising
and music. We also learned how men are supposed to follow a certain set of
rules called the “Guy Code” just so they don’t lose their masculinity. I am
using all of this to talk about how men an women are can be bullied if they do
not live up to societies norms.
Piercy, Marge. “Barbie Doll”. Poem. 1999. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/barbie-doll/
In this poem, Marge Piercy depicts
the harsh norms that girls and women are forced to live up to in today’s
society. I am using this poem in my essay because I want to talk about how
women are forced to supposedly look HOT or else no one will like, date,
befriend, or show any attention. In the poem the girl is told that she has fat
legs and a big nose. From what her classmates told her, she contemplates her
image. She metaphorically cuts her thighs and nose off so she will prove to
herself and everyone at her school that she is good looking. At the end of the
poem she is laying in her coffin at her funeral they say, “Doesn’t
she look pretty’ everyone said, consummation at last”. I hope to use this as
pathos in my essay to link peoples emotion to my topic.
"Teenage Bullying." -
Bullying Statistics. N.p., 2009. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/teenage-bullying.html>.
To
help
my argument I am choosing to use good evidence of bullying that can
occur
in schools, workplaces and other places. There are three types of
bulling-
verbal, physical and cyber. Approximately 30 percent of teens are either
bullied or have bullied others. This bullying leads to self-esteem
issues, stress
and sometimes even death. Bullying can be linked to the reasons why
people act the way the do later in life. But most importantly for this
essay the bullying that the girl received in the poem "Barbie Doll" took
that criticism seriously and took her own life. Bullying is another way
men and women are objectified in today's society. They may not be sex
objects like in magazines or commercials but they are compared to them.
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