Brittanie Edgel
Professor Tawa
ENGL 1010-12
22 October 2014
“Little Girls or Little Women?” Young girls are becoming increasingly involved in this worlds highly sexual environment. More and more are being captured at young ages by marketing and advertising, glamorizing fashion and new fads. Once discovering her three year old daughter, Coaimhe, becoming more concerned about beautifying herself and living like a young female adult, Author of “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect”, Stephanie Hanes, Publicises how girls at young ages are becoming too involved in today’s highly sexualized environment and by investing in makeup, clothing, accessories and new hair do’s to make them look “sexy”, when in reality it’s far too inappropriate for their age group. Girls are being blinded by society’s standards for how the female body should look. They want that “sexy babe” look just like all the beautiful models they see in media and on advertisements. But many are falling into eating disorders and becoming very sick trying to do so. They become so caught up in becoming skinny that they’ll start to harm their bodies to reach their impossible goal. In an article titled …show more content…
In a scholarly article titled “Prevalence of Eating Disturbance and Body Image Dissatisfaction in Young Girls: An Examination of the Variance Across Racial and Socioeconomic Groups” written by Marissa L. Deleel, Tammy L. Hughes, Jeffery A. Miller, Alison Hipwell, and Lea A. Theodore briefly summarize the eating disturbances in young girls, “Five hundred eighty-one girls completed the