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I ended up with a bunch of used thumb drives. As I do, I go through them and see if there's anything interesting on them. I found a high school assignment written by a Grade 12 student. I found it interesting that they're covering this subject in schools. I figured I'd share the assignment. It's interesting to not only see what subjects they're teaching in school, but also read the thoughts of a 17 year old girl who has yet to have her pvssy ripped apart and her heart broken. Given that this was written in 2016, both have likely already taken place.
I tried to find the article she's referencing, but I came up empty and AI was fvcking useless. Regardless, here's her assignment...
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Article Analysis: Outline
Argument: Disney movies (Disney Princess movies specifically) depict a false image that men should be “Prince Charming” and that women should always be the “Damsel in Distress”. Disney movies teach young girls false ideologies of love that will soon disappoint them in the future, as no man will be able to fulfill their fanatical idea of love.
Strengths: 1. Author stands her ground and is thorough throughout the article, and shows consistency with her opinion.
2. The author writes in a style that is very easy to understand, especially for students.
Weaknesses: 1. Generalizes all men by saying “Men like to be important and useful. They like to solve problems. As my own boyfriend told me, men fix stuff; it’s what they do.”
2. Depicts all women to have a very impressionable and moldable mind. “By the time we realize that boys are kind of cute and maybe we want to get their attention, the fairy tale idea of love has firmly taken root in our subconscious.”
3. Claims that women who grow up watching romantic and Disney Princess movies, have unrealistic expectations that men must fulfill. “I’ve read more than my fair share of romance novels myself, and watched many romantic movies, and I’ve come up with three different categories that these women tend to put men in: KISA: Knight In Shining Armor, BBTGB: The Bad Boy Turned Good Boy, GBWP: The Good Boy Waiting Patiently.”
Camryn A.
Family Studies 40S, slot 2
April 5th, 2016
Where’s my Prince Charming?
As young children (girls specifically), we always dreamed of living a royal, lush, princess lifestyle. Where we would have endless amounts of beautiful ball gowns, diamonds, and have that perfect Prince Charming always there to save the day if things didn’t go our way. Ever wonder where we got those ideas? Was it the media or films we watched as young kids that could have possibly influenced this mindset?
As young girls we were unconsciously being bombarded with the idea of set gender roles. Girls; being the weak, helpless victim who always need some sort of physical and emotional saving by an external force (e.g. When the only way Snow White can wake up after being poisoned by the apple, is if Prince Charming falls in love and kisses her). Boys; the strong, tough, noble man who is absolutely untouchable. Always the one who saves the day, and saves the Princess. Sadly, the idea of gender roles comes from a platform in which we cannot control, especially as young kids it’s hard to dodge all of the clutter that is being thrown at us by the media and other platforms such as film. We grow up watching these films that are set in crazy, fantasy worlds, and set us up to believe that when we enter the real world it will be somewhat similar. We’ll wake up on a sunny morning, with blue birds chirping and have maids make our breakfast and when things go wrong there will be a fairy godmother to come and grant our wishes at the end of the day. If only reality was that simple.
However, many women who grow up watching these romantic, fairy tale movies grow up to be independent women. Not hopeless and dependent on any man like they are in the Disney Princess films, these are the lucky ones. I’m not saying that they’ll never have their heart broken by a boy, because let’s face it, a lot of the boys out there are as***les. I’m saying that they didn’t follow the path that harsh stereotyping sometimes leads them to e.g. that women should let the man take care of them, and be dependent on the man. In the article, Miller says “I’ve read more than my fair share of romance novels myself, and watched many romantic movies, and I’ve come up with three different categories that these women tend to put men in: KISA: Knight In Shining Armor, BBTGB: The Bad Boy Turned Good Boy, GBWP: The Good Boy Waiting Patiently.” Meanwhile, I grew up in the “fairytale movie” era and my expectations are not nearly as demanding as she states in the article. So what would my category be? SIWWDNAM? Strong Independent Woman Who Doesn’t Need A Man? I feel as if she should’ve been more specific with her ideas, instead of being as general as she was. Miller also mentions a quote from her boyfriend saying “Men like to be important and useful. They like to solve problems. As my own boyfriend told me, men fix stuff; it’s what they do.” So women don’t like to fix stuff? They don’t like feeling important? Are you sure all men like to fix stuff? We live in 2016, where the idea gender roles are trying to be abolished. By saying this she’s setting us back years and years to the antiquated concept where men are leaders and women must follow and pick up the pieces. Although the style of Wendy’s writing is refreshing as well as easy to understand, in my opinion she makes a lot of invalid points. I am only seventeen years-old and don’t have a lot of experience with boys myself, but by reading this article over and over I feel like she isn’t speaking in us girls’ favour but rather against it. For example, her point she made saying that by the time we notice boys the idea perfect fairytale love has already taken ahold and implanted itself into our subconscious is somewhat in invalid to me. Revisiting my previous point, not all girls/women let movies and other forms of entertainment influence the way we perceive love and other emotions. Not all girls’ minds are as impressionable as they are set out to be.
I will always hold Disney movies close to my heart, because great memories surrounding them. Especially Princess movies, as a young girl I loved the idea of living as royalty and all of the lush things that came with it. In my opinion, I think the author herself fell into one of the categories she constructed and that’s where she had found the passion to write this article. Because she herself had gotten her heart broken. I think it’s important to watch different genres of movies, and explore your interest in film, however it is up to make sure you don’t take the plots of movies and try to turn it into reality. Because at the end of the day you’ll just set yourself up for disappointment and that is the main issue Miller talks about. The false ideologies of love and affection in children’s movies set them up for disappointment in reality, because most of the time life wouldn’t be that sweet to you.
I tried to find the article she's referencing, but I came up empty and AI was fvcking useless. Regardless, here's her assignment...
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Article Analysis: Outline
Argument: Disney movies (Disney Princess movies specifically) depict a false image that men should be “Prince Charming” and that women should always be the “Damsel in Distress”. Disney movies teach young girls false ideologies of love that will soon disappoint them in the future, as no man will be able to fulfill their fanatical idea of love.
Strengths: 1. Author stands her ground and is thorough throughout the article, and shows consistency with her opinion.
2. The author writes in a style that is very easy to understand, especially for students.
Weaknesses: 1. Generalizes all men by saying “Men like to be important and useful. They like to solve problems. As my own boyfriend told me, men fix stuff; it’s what they do.”
2. Depicts all women to have a very impressionable and moldable mind. “By the time we realize that boys are kind of cute and maybe we want to get their attention, the fairy tale idea of love has firmly taken root in our subconscious.”
3. Claims that women who grow up watching romantic and Disney Princess movies, have unrealistic expectations that men must fulfill. “I’ve read more than my fair share of romance novels myself, and watched many romantic movies, and I’ve come up with three different categories that these women tend to put men in: KISA: Knight In Shining Armor, BBTGB: The Bad Boy Turned Good Boy, GBWP: The Good Boy Waiting Patiently.”
Camryn A.
Family Studies 40S, slot 2
April 5th, 2016
Where’s my Prince Charming?
As young children (girls specifically), we always dreamed of living a royal, lush, princess lifestyle. Where we would have endless amounts of beautiful ball gowns, diamonds, and have that perfect Prince Charming always there to save the day if things didn’t go our way. Ever wonder where we got those ideas? Was it the media or films we watched as young kids that could have possibly influenced this mindset?
As young girls we were unconsciously being bombarded with the idea of set gender roles. Girls; being the weak, helpless victim who always need some sort of physical and emotional saving by an external force (e.g. When the only way Snow White can wake up after being poisoned by the apple, is if Prince Charming falls in love and kisses her). Boys; the strong, tough, noble man who is absolutely untouchable. Always the one who saves the day, and saves the Princess. Sadly, the idea of gender roles comes from a platform in which we cannot control, especially as young kids it’s hard to dodge all of the clutter that is being thrown at us by the media and other platforms such as film. We grow up watching these films that are set in crazy, fantasy worlds, and set us up to believe that when we enter the real world it will be somewhat similar. We’ll wake up on a sunny morning, with blue birds chirping and have maids make our breakfast and when things go wrong there will be a fairy godmother to come and grant our wishes at the end of the day. If only reality was that simple.
However, many women who grow up watching these romantic, fairy tale movies grow up to be independent women. Not hopeless and dependent on any man like they are in the Disney Princess films, these are the lucky ones. I’m not saying that they’ll never have their heart broken by a boy, because let’s face it, a lot of the boys out there are as***les. I’m saying that they didn’t follow the path that harsh stereotyping sometimes leads them to e.g. that women should let the man take care of them, and be dependent on the man. In the article, Miller says “I’ve read more than my fair share of romance novels myself, and watched many romantic movies, and I’ve come up with three different categories that these women tend to put men in: KISA: Knight In Shining Armor, BBTGB: The Bad Boy Turned Good Boy, GBWP: The Good Boy Waiting Patiently.” Meanwhile, I grew up in the “fairytale movie” era and my expectations are not nearly as demanding as she states in the article. So what would my category be? SIWWDNAM? Strong Independent Woman Who Doesn’t Need A Man? I feel as if she should’ve been more specific with her ideas, instead of being as general as she was. Miller also mentions a quote from her boyfriend saying “Men like to be important and useful. They like to solve problems. As my own boyfriend told me, men fix stuff; it’s what they do.” So women don’t like to fix stuff? They don’t like feeling important? Are you sure all men like to fix stuff? We live in 2016, where the idea gender roles are trying to be abolished. By saying this she’s setting us back years and years to the antiquated concept where men are leaders and women must follow and pick up the pieces. Although the style of Wendy’s writing is refreshing as well as easy to understand, in my opinion she makes a lot of invalid points. I am only seventeen years-old and don’t have a lot of experience with boys myself, but by reading this article over and over I feel like she isn’t speaking in us girls’ favour but rather against it. For example, her point she made saying that by the time we notice boys the idea perfect fairytale love has already taken ahold and implanted itself into our subconscious is somewhat in invalid to me. Revisiting my previous point, not all girls/women let movies and other forms of entertainment influence the way we perceive love and other emotions. Not all girls’ minds are as impressionable as they are set out to be.
I will always hold Disney movies close to my heart, because great memories surrounding them. Especially Princess movies, as a young girl I loved the idea of living as royalty and all of the lush things that came with it. In my opinion, I think the author herself fell into one of the categories she constructed and that’s where she had found the passion to write this article. Because she herself had gotten her heart broken. I think it’s important to watch different genres of movies, and explore your interest in film, however it is up to make sure you don’t take the plots of movies and try to turn it into reality. Because at the end of the day you’ll just set yourself up for disappointment and that is the main issue Miller talks about. The false ideologies of love and affection in children’s movies set them up for disappointment in reality, because most of the time life wouldn’t be that sweet to you.
