SOCIETY & YOUTH
PAGE 15
A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION
BY: MILLA NGUYEN
Beauty Standards: So you've arrived to Culture Talk's Women's Herstory
You'd be surprised at the amount of beauty
Issue. In this piece, I will be discussing the the more
stereotypes, criticisms, and limitations that are
*personal topics, the ones that most girls have
placed upon girls in their early teenage years. I
talked about with their friends, their parents, and
won't get too much into this topic because it is
even to
themselves in the mirror when they get
detailed within Ananyaa Mahajan's and Nita
ready in the morning. I will be commenting about
Kulkarni's article, "Women in Media" as they
my own experiences along with statistics backed up
cover the harmful body images represented in
by a variety of sources and experts.
media, the gravity of eating disorders, and how it has been seeded since childhood.
When anyone thinks of the average teenage girl, the first image that comes to mind is a girl in high
Love & friendships:
school or college who is naïve, oblivious, and has
I recall being a high school student at a charter
some sort of fan-girl-ish nature towards anything
school before moving to the high school that I
she likes. Newsflash: this is an image that has been
would later graduate from. Back in 2015, when
perpetuated by society and the world. It is common
I was a freshman, I always noticed how the kids
within films, literature, and more media. When it
who were deemed "cool" circulated vines
comes down to reality, I can confirm that many girls
(short skit videos), pop culture references, and
around the world have so much to offer and it is
exchanged shots on social media even if adults
time for stereotypes to be recognized and broken.
& non-internet savvy kids didn't understand
Now, let's get into it.
them. 18.
