Journal Entry 10

The poem which caused me to analyze many things in American culture was "The Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy. The other day my husband and I had just been discussing how some things are regarded in American society as unkept or gross and in European society they are commonplace. In America, some hygiene and beauty traits are completely different than what is considered beautiful in Europe and I find that very intriguing. This aspect of beauty in American culture is dramatized in "The Barbie Doll" and voices how women in American society are pressured into becoming an image that is just not feasible to imitate. Even as little girls I have noticed in my youngest sons class, when he was in as young as third grade how the girls were so interested in how they looked and made fun of others that were not wearing what they deemed fashionable. "The Barbie Doll" exemplifies what is wrong with our society, forcing our young women to not be proud of who they are and that they have to be something they are not to be accepted. It makes me very sad to see what our culture does to so many young women and I hope that I can lead by example to many younger women that you can be you and change the world if you want to.