Tina Fey, myself and any other girl in the world has been conditioned since birth to act a certain way, to absorb. Women have been trained to be “smaller” than men. From birth, girls are told to think before they speak, use their “inside voices”, and carry themselves in a “ladylike manner”. Commercials often portray women as counterparts to men. We are represented as 1950s stepford wives whose sole responsibility is to take care of the kids and house. Men, on the other hand, are depicted as adventurous, go-getters (Rubie-Davies, 179). This portrayal of women in television is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to gender inequality.
I connected deeply with actress and comedian, Tina Fey, while reading her memoir, Bossypants. She does not hold back as she recounts dealing with the awkwardness of becoming a successful working woman. Fey hilariously narrates learning about the physiological joys of becoming a woman including menstruation and managing unruly body hair. While reading her refreshingly remorseless
The memoir also sheds…show more content… Women should not aspire to look and act like other women. I’m not saying it is a crime to want to dress up and take pride in our looks. Everyone wants to feel attractive. But it does become a problem when a woman ignores her potential and centers her life around something as trivial as makeup or the size of her butt. Women should instead strive for intellectual progress and bettering themselves. Women in politics, Sarah Palin in particular, have faced criticism in the past over their physical appearance. The media has paid more attention to the way they dress than their actual political ideals. I would much prefer a woman like Hillary Clinton to run my country than a woman who is more interested in perfecting their physical