Daddy's Girl
Do you ever look in the mirror and wonder what’s wrong with you, why people don’t like your hair, or why people don’t want to hang out
with you? I definitely have those days. I feel as though society has taken away who I really am and who I want to be. “For some girls popularity is magical.”-Queen Bees and Wanna Bees. For “Popular” girls in this day and age having followers, who may or may not like them, is the only way they can survive. These followers usually only want to be like the “Queen Bees.” These “Queen Bees” are the girls that keep society going; they make girls want to be accepted by society. But society has gone overboard I can’t look in the mirror without wondering what I can do to be accepted by society. I wonder what makeup I should wear, what clothes are in, and I constantly worry about my future. I
worry about what people will think of me if I act a certain way. I tell myself not to worry about it, to be my own person but that’s hard when media is constantly shoving perfect down your throat.
Sometimes I do feel like a “daddy’s girl”, getting attention and getting what I want, but what people think that means isn’t always right. Most of the time being a “daddy’s girl” is really limiting. When I ask to go walk downtown or go to the movies he always asks who I’m going with. My dad doesn’t let me go out by myself; I always have to have at least one friend with me.
Most everyone has two sides of them. Usually they have a side that they only show when they’re comfortable around the people they are with. The other side is the side that they are when they’re around other people particularly when they are people they don’t know. When I’m around my friends or family I don’t necessarily care that much about how I look. For example the clothes I’m wearing, or my makeup, or my
hair. I turn my back on how society thinks girls should act or what society believes defines a woman. But when I’m at school or in public I pay more attention to it although I’m not completely obsessed with it. I wear makeup, I dress as a girl “should” dress, and I pay attention to how I act. I don’t act too much as how I would like to be, but if people really look, past the stereotypical girl they, can see who I really am underneath.
The raincloud and the moonflower have about the same meaning. The rain cloud shows how I hide my true feeling from people especially when I’m sad. A lot of times I don’t tell people how I’m really feeling, and I’ll just keep it bottled up inside. In society girls will silently write letters or lists about killing themselves and they won’t get help. A boy will get help because he will become violent. So the rainclouds show that part of society, the way a girl can hide her feelings. The moonflower, which only blooms at night, is how I only let the people I’m comfortable with see who I really am.The glass on the sunset is how society thinks girls are fragile and need careful handling. The waves with the rolling surf signify how I can be one person and a totally different person underneath. The currents in the ocean are like the currents of my emotions, and the calm surface is like the calm façade I put on.
The sunset on my mask represents the layers of me. My temper is the oranges of the sunset. My sportiness is the yellows. My caring transfers with the purples and pinks. My group of friends is represented by the cluster of palm trees. The palm trees signify my friendships because my friends play a part in how I’m socialized. They have taught me how I should dress and act in public. The closed eyes inthe sunset are showing how I try not to pay much attention to the way society wants
girls to be: thin, lots of makeup, perfect hair, fragile, weak, and unable to fend for themselves.
Socialization can be a good thing, but it can also make you blind and deaf to reality. Making you forget who you really are, to be yourself. The reality that women aren’t perfect, or always thin, or don’t have bad hair days, because I know for a fact that I’m a far cry from what society
deems as perfect for a women of our time.
with you? I definitely have those days. I feel as though society has taken away who I really am and who I want to be. “For some girls popularity is magical.”-Queen Bees and Wanna Bees. For “Popular” girls in this day and age having followers, who may or may not like them, is the only way they can survive. These followers usually only want to be like the “Queen Bees.” These “Queen Bees” are the girls that keep society going; they make girls want to be accepted by society. But society has gone overboard I can’t look in the mirror without wondering what I can do to be accepted by society. I wonder what makeup I should wear, what clothes are in, and I constantly worry about my future. I
worry about what people will think of me if I act a certain way. I tell myself not to worry about it, to be my own person but that’s hard when media is constantly shoving perfect down your throat.
Sometimes I do feel like a “daddy’s girl”, getting attention and getting what I want, but what people think that means isn’t always right. Most of the time being a “daddy’s girl” is really limiting. When I ask to go walk downtown or go to the movies he always asks who I’m going with. My dad doesn’t let me go out by myself; I always have to have at least one friend with me.
Most everyone has two sides of them. Usually they have a side that they only show when they’re comfortable around the people they are with. The other side is the side that they are when they’re around other people particularly when they are people they don’t know. When I’m around my friends or family I don’t necessarily care that much about how I look. For example the clothes I’m wearing, or my makeup, or my
hair. I turn my back on how society thinks girls should act or what society believes defines a woman. But when I’m at school or in public I pay more attention to it although I’m not completely obsessed with it. I wear makeup, I dress as a girl “should” dress, and I pay attention to how I act. I don’t act too much as how I would like to be, but if people really look, past the stereotypical girl they, can see who I really am underneath.
The raincloud and the moonflower have about the same meaning. The rain cloud shows how I hide my true feeling from people especially when I’m sad. A lot of times I don’t tell people how I’m really feeling, and I’ll just keep it bottled up inside. In society girls will silently write letters or lists about killing themselves and they won’t get help. A boy will get help because he will become violent. So the rainclouds show that part of society, the way a girl can hide her feelings. The moonflower, which only blooms at night, is how I only let the people I’m comfortable with see who I really am.The glass on the sunset is how society thinks girls are fragile and need careful handling. The waves with the rolling surf signify how I can be one person and a totally different person underneath. The currents in the ocean are like the currents of my emotions, and the calm surface is like the calm façade I put on.
The sunset on my mask represents the layers of me. My temper is the oranges of the sunset. My sportiness is the yellows. My caring transfers with the purples and pinks. My group of friends is represented by the cluster of palm trees. The palm trees signify my friendships because my friends play a part in how I’m socialized. They have taught me how I should dress and act in public. The closed eyes inthe sunset are showing how I try not to pay much attention to the way society wants
girls to be: thin, lots of makeup, perfect hair, fragile, weak, and unable to fend for themselves.
Socialization can be a good thing, but it can also make you blind and deaf to reality. Making you forget who you really are, to be yourself. The reality that women aren’t perfect, or always thin, or don’t have bad hair days, because I know for a fact that I’m a far cry from what society
deems as perfect for a women of our time.