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Hating Ourselves
"In the movie 'Mean Girls' there is a scene where these girls are [...] complaining about their bodies. The one girl that didn’t do it at first was looked at like she was crazy for not hating something about herself..."
By Jennifer Marshall
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The movie Mean Girls, which hit box offices in 2004, depicted the life of the Plastics, a clique of popular, A-list high school girls. But the movie also made a parody of teenage life, and the impossible beauty standards surrounding weight and fashion, that young women try to uphold. Youth Radio's Jennifer Marshall is no stranger to these ideals, and reports that all too often, she and her friends look in the mirror and see nothing but flaws. (September 24 on KCBS)
Image is everything in the type of world we live in. It’s all about who’s the thinnest, the prettiest, and who has the best style.
Every year more and more girls are faced with a society that doesn’t accept the many beautiful shapes and forms we come in. In the movie “Mean Girls” there is a scene where these girls are standing in front of a mirror complaining about their bodies. The one girl that didn’t do it at first was looked at like she was crazy for not hating something about herself. Although people laughed at this scene, the sad truth is that girls do this on a daily basis.
My friends and I are all different ethnicities, shapes, and sizes. When we go to the mall it’s like they all forget everything great about themselves. While trying on jeans we’ll ask each other’s opinions, and the whole group of girls will of course say, “You look really beautiful.”
But then a usual response is, “No I don’t.”
I still find myself saying the words fat and ugly, but just last year I came to a revelation that maybe if I didn’t spend all my time hating myself people would see what I liked about me.
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