Thursday, January 15, 2015
Doll Influences on Gender
I do believe that dolls have a huge impact on how we feel we need to look or act. At a very young age images were put into our heads of how a "typical" boy should look and act or how a "typical" girl should look and act. The truth is that none of these images that were implanted in us our right. We should be more concerned with what makes us feel comfortable and how we want to project ourselves in our society instead of believing that we must look and act a certain way. Dolls are not the only thing that encourages us to fit in with the crowd but they were the first things that we put in our heads. When I was young, I remember playing with muscular action figures that I felt I needed to look like when I was older. If I saw a perfectly aligned six pack on my action figure I told myself that I needed to have those abs too. As a society, we need to change with the times and start allowing ourselves to become who we are naturally instead of trying to model ourselves after images in our heads.
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I agree with Zach. My barbies and Polly Pockets really affected my views and I see it in other girls too. All my life I've heard girls say things like "I need to be skinnier" as well as other things to look like barbie. I still today hear my 22 year old sister say the same things but looking like barbie is impossible. Proportionally as well as humanly I believe it is impossible. I think that these ideas are what lead men and women into getting any type of plastic surgery. We have these images that do get hammered into our brains just like Zach said. As a society, can we break them?
ReplyDeleteZach, I totally agree with you statement that theses labels that are thrust upon us are not right. We should feel comfortable in what we want to do with our future and not feel like others will judge us for being "different". Dolls have a major impact on little girls, you see them idolizing her so called "perfect" body that is so unrealistic. Girls starting at a young age think more and more about how they look, what they wear, and how they act. If you have younger siblings you can tell a lot with there generation that they are starting to become more materialized then most girls ever were when we were growing up. I know now that society is trying to change how they make dolls to make them more realist but even that wont stop the separation of boys and girls and how they should act.
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