Comments on: Girl Culture (NSFW)

By: Well

Well — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:24:23 +0000

Could it also be possible that America hates women in general, but black women have taught their daughters self-love in the face of an extraordinary intersectional hate?

By: Rizz

Rizz — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:37:20 +0000

This is crazy! When I was ten years old I went to see a photography exhibit, then wrote short essay about it for a school project. I never remembered what it was called, or who had done the photographs. Now, five years later, I’m looking through the archives of this site and I stumble across this, the exact set of photographs that I had seen so long ago! I never thought I’d see them again…

By: Michel Foucault and Purity Balls « of Heart and Mind

Michel Foucault and Purity Balls « of Heart and Mind — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:45:22 +0000

[...] to suppress their wants by social institutions. At the same time, however, young women are also hypersexualized from a very young age because of this very same trend of defining the Self not by one’s thoughts [...]

By: Hyper-Consumerism And The New (Upper-Middle Class?) Parent » Sociological Images

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:32:42 +0000

[...] in the City, bangs for baby, beauty spending over a lifetime, modernizing the fairy tale, and girl culture. 13 Comments Tags: capitalism, children/youth, consumption, gender, gender: [...]

By: Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood » Sociological Images

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood » Sociological Images — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:14:52 +0000

[...] also hyper-consumerism and parenting, girl culture, girls’ shirts encourage materialism, “born to shop” pacifier, kids and their [...]

By: pygoman

pygoman — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:35:00 +0000

@ pending:

There is a huge difference between the perception white girls and black girls have of their bodies. The last stat I read was that only about 30% of white girls have like their bodies or feel attractive while over 80% of black girls feel this way.

America hates white women (at least ‘real’ ones). When this subject comes up I always ask people to name the last American solo female pop star who most people would consider fat. Stumps them every time.

By: mohammad hosein

mohammad hosein — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:05:50 +0000

you are crazy

By: mohammad hosein

mohammad hosein — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:01:22 +0000

i love you

By: EvilCON » Lauren Greenfield’s Photography

EvilCON » Lauren Greenfield’s Photography — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:54:08 +0000

[...] work from Sociological Images which hosts images that depicts various aspects of society. There’s a rather explicit one on girl culture. After seeing that, I have to say that girls really do have it pretty rough. It’s [...]

By: pending

pending — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:45:05 +0000

@jus’ sayin:
Yeah, probably. But to play devil’s advocate, is there anything that Greenfield describes that doesn’t apply to PoCs as well? Black children absorb ideas about the culture’s view on body through the same processes as white children, popular latino girls are probably as afraid of being made fun of as popular white girls, and in just about every race the ‘wrong’ body can make a “pariah” out of the owner, there’s just a whole other layer of complex racial and ethnic issues on top of all that for PoCs.

I didn’t see much diversity either, I’m not saying you’re wrong. But I don’t think what Greenfield’s describing is unique to white girls/women.

By: jus' sayin

jus' sayin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:26:32 +0000

from the video (at the very end):

“there’s such a span of diverse experience… that it’s something that almost every girl or woman can relate to”

As long as she’s white, anyhow.

By: Cecil

Cecil — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:16:36 +0000

I have to wonder if these girls and women know that they are perpetuating patriarchal standards. Women are taught that their bodies are flawed and are constantly infantilized whether it be through what culture tells us to wear or how to shape our body.

Are women just dupes of culture, or is knowledge power?

By: Sagadarvulia

Sagadarvulia — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:54:29 +0000

All of these pictures portray the programmed desire to please men, at varying degrees of self-destructiveness.
The fact that several of these also depict what has become the “norm” when it comes to expected female behavior makes it even more depressing…