For This Intervention:

For this intervention, the idea is not to completely change one's perspective of a sorority girl, but rather for one to become aware of what the images of "sorority girls" are in the media. This theme of the pink-wearing, fake boobed, gold digging, attractive, ditzy, slutty sorority girl makes all women look bad, it is debatably one of the worst images of women in the media. The image of the "sorority girl" has moved beyond portrayals of members of made-up sororities in movies. Now the idea of a “sorority girl” in the media can be thought of as any girl who is pink-wearing, fake-boobed, attractive, gold digging, ditzy and slutty, which is currently quite a popular image in media. This creates a situation in which people may assume a woman who displays any of these characteristics to be the “sorority girl” type. For example, if an attractive woman wearing a pink suit walks into a business meeting, some may assume that she is also slutty and dumb and not worth taking business advice from, when in reality this woman may be a genius who enjoys wearing the color pink. So this image of the “sorority girl” in the media creates a problem for all women, forcing them to don themselves in drab attire and act about as lively as a seventy-five year old nun to gain any respect from others in society, especially respect from men in a business setting. The image of a “sorority girl” in media concurrently creates a problem for men as well, by setting up a certain set of associations of and expectations for women.

Monday, December 8, 2008


The stereotypical sorority girl according to the media:
-pearl wearing, prim and proper, polite, uptight
or
-slutty, vindictive, will do anything to be popular or for attention
or both??

Who is this girl???

Would you like to be this girl?

What are your first impressions when you see this girl?

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3 comments:

Famulous said...

Sure! Wouldn't any of us want to be this beautiful? But is this picture even real? Has it been altered or airbrushed? Probably so! And that would mean that being this beautiful is impossible! But because it is published and distributed as being real and a possiblility, a lot of women believe that it is obtainable and become obsessed with trying to achieve it and self loathing when they can't! This is where the media has to become more responsible. Yes we want to see attractive women representing us but not unreal women!

December 15, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Willy said...

I think that regardless of your inspiration it is a good thing for a person to try to look their best. If a person resorts to unhealthy measures to achieve this image, then it is a personal problem, not the meidi's problem.

December 15, 2008 at 5:57 PM
Willy said...

Shortly after posting my last comment I realized that I had mor to say.
WE CANT ALL BE THE BEST! If we all were the best, then there would be no attraction to photos like this one.
This is clearly some sort of orgainized photo shoot. So they hand picked the person who would look the Best. The reason that people look at this picture is because she is Better looking than most of the population. If she was average looking or sub par nobody would care to look at the picture at all and the photo shoot would be completely worthless.

December 15, 2008 at 6:02 PM

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