Judgement Through Culture And Social Construction

Choosing my outfits based on the mood I’m in is something I pick daily depending on how I am feeling, yet one thing I cannot change about my look is that I am very tiny. Throughout my life I have a lot of people both males and females, who would categorize me for the way i look, more specifically my body. Females can appreciate another woman's skills on style and makeup but then look the other way and make rude comments to bring a girl down. This negative desire comes from one's own feelings of jealousy and insecurity. Simultaneously men can look at my body and admire me because of how small I am and that is considered good looking, but then also look the other way and make negative comments about my character.

Negative comments always stem from people who envy that specific women/man in that scenario and for men it is a sexualizatipn of a females body which has come from advertisements (i. e. Victoria’s Secret models). Living in a day and age where women are seen as sexualized objects attracted to my physique as averse to my personality and clothing. Western society has been persuaded internationally in the sense that marketing companies have used small women to sell items because they are considered sexy individuals. Media portrays these type of women as indecent and coarse. Many times I have been an example to my other cousins on why they should eat so that they don’t end up looking my myself. I was being judged because many peoples experience was that people like and admire women with more “meat to there bone”, busty women are seen as more attractive compared to smaller women. Busty women often are seen as prettier or more well shaped and fit in society because they didn’t look like they were a ‘stick’. People’s judgement were that I did not eat a lot and that meant there was something wrong with me and my choice to wear the outfits that I wore was because I wanted more attention. I have also seen that individuals that come from higher socioeconomic backgrounds sometimes try to be more like the people portrayed in media.

There was a point in my life where I had people come up to me and ask if I was okay because of how skinny I was even though I was eating properly and I did not feel like there was anything wrong with me. People are willing to go ahead and ask a person these questions because they feel as though in there mind someone who is tiny is not okay. People have judged me based on my body type and expect me to want to change and get bigger because in other’s eyes I should want to change.