Alice Walker Beauty
This story is the biography of Alice Walker called “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”. In this story, she is expected to be a pretty little girl who's life depends on her beauty, so much so that when she is shot in the eye, her school work is heavily affected. She is treated differently than her brothers, who are given more freedom and bully her. I know that in my personal life I have been shunned for not being masculine enough.
Societies today see femininity as a female trait. When she was two and a half years the argument that she used to convince her father to bring her to the fair was “Take me, Daddy… I'm the prettiest!” (Walker 368). She feels that the most valuable thing she has is her beauty. The next example of her femininity …show more content…
This was because I didn’t really want to play the more masculine sports, like football and baseball. This narrowed my possible list of friends down to the people who would want to befriend one of the few unathletic kids at my school. They only sports I did play were kickball at recess, and soccer, on a team that wasn’t very good. I didn’t start to gain more friends until my dad convinced me to play flag football in fifth grade. This lack of friends caused me not to learn important social skills. Me missing this skill has caused me to be very socially awkward and not being able to carry a conversion. I am still trying to learn these skills. The product of all of this is that, because I didn’t do very many sports, I am overweight, and because of my lack of social skills, I have a very low self esteem. Although, over time, my social skills have sharpened up a bit and I’ve become more active, so I’m starting to overcome my demons.
Just like Alice Walker, I am working through my imperfections. I am working around my lack of masculinity just as Alice Walker has worked through her lack of femininity. In both of our cases, our problems were caused by our perceived lack of respective lack of gendered traits. I considered myself less masculine because of my lack of playing sports, and Alice Walker’s perceived lack of femininity due to her scarred
Societies today see femininity as a female trait. When she was two and a half years the argument that she used to convince her father to bring her to the fair was “Take me, Daddy… I'm the prettiest!” (Walker 368). She feels that the most valuable thing she has is her beauty. The next example of her femininity …show more content…
This was because I didn’t really want to play the more masculine sports, like football and baseball. This narrowed my possible list of friends down to the people who would want to befriend one of the few unathletic kids at my school. They only sports I did play were kickball at recess, and soccer, on a team that wasn’t very good. I didn’t start to gain more friends until my dad convinced me to play flag football in fifth grade. This lack of friends caused me not to learn important social skills. Me missing this skill has caused me to be very socially awkward and not being able to carry a conversion. I am still trying to learn these skills. The product of all of this is that, because I didn’t do very many sports, I am overweight, and because of my lack of social skills, I have a very low self esteem. Although, over time, my social skills have sharpened up a bit and I’ve become more active, so I’m starting to overcome my demons.
Just like Alice Walker, I am working through my imperfections. I am working around my lack of masculinity just as Alice Walker has worked through her lack of femininity. In both of our cases, our problems were caused by our perceived lack of respective lack of gendered traits. I considered myself less masculine because of my lack of playing sports, and Alice Walker’s perceived lack of femininity due to her scarred