Freeze time!

While all of the readings in their entirety were interesting this week, there was one issue that kind of jumped out to me and made me think a bit more than the other things that were talked about. In 2.0 on page 267 the author says “…coming of age, something that is sold to girls as empowering.” This can be verified by younger girls dressing like they are 20 years old, in movies like 13 going on 30, etc. Now, to me, this in an interesting occurrence just because of the small age range women are supposed to try to fit eternally in to. We see these younger girls trying to look like women in their 20’s, dressing certain ways, talking about issues a younger child wouldn’t be heard talking about, yapping away on their cell phones. But then, when we look at the opposite spectrum, we see older women a lot of the time trying to act like younger women, again dressing as a 20 something year old would normally dress. So, while this article was talking about young girls trying to be more mature and fit this ideal woman that the media is portraying, could it really just be that society only wants to be interested in women who fit the niche of the 20 something year old, female hottie? We rarely see men trying to look younger or young boys trying to look older and that’s because they are more accepted at all ages of their lives. Women are only attractive and wanted it seems while they are in their “prime” for reproducing. There we have it again, the main purpose of a woman… to reproduce. So obviously the only tie one should want a woman is when she is at her peak in being able to fulfill her societal role of producing babies.