Sheridan-Rabideau’s
article is very in-depth and discusses the various forms of activism used
within the GirlZone movement. I am familiar with the book “Reviving Ophelia:
Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls” by Mary Pipher. It’s a very influential
book that utilizes consciousness-raising, which is why I bought it several
years ago. However, I had not gotten around to reading it and I’m grateful for
this article, because it helped me put the book into cultural and historical
perspective. The discussion regarding “Mean Girls,” also called Alpha Girls,
R.M.G. (Really Mean Girls) and Queen Bees, truly hit home for me since I had
been bullied in the past by a female who perfectly fit the description of the
“monied white girl,” who would perpetrate such “relational anger.” I would be
most interested in finding the research article which is referenced in this
case. I found the following sentence, “depicting girls as actors within
situations not of their choosing,” to be particularly poignant as to how I felt
about my own situation (Sheridan-Rabideau, p 43). It is good to finally have a
name for this type of psychological warfare which I had witnessed.
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This poster inspired me to create my Elegance of Masculine Beauty project which focuses on the masculine face and figure as aesthetically beautiful. I plan to single-handedly tip this statistics!
My inspiration was beautiful men of the 20th & 21st centuries. From RudolphValentino to James Dean, from Peter O'Toole to Benedict Cumberbatch. Inspiration for Elegance of Masculine Beauty (classic Hollywood)
