Televison Watching

I have to say watching and reading these small clips made me feel like the female was simple subservient to the male. That the female is only good for doing as what she is told and not able to hold her own or make up her own mind. To the question at hand with the clip of Maria Antonietta you see this young slim girl getting out of bed surrounded by other women. Most of these other women are slender as well; you did not see any corsets to suck them in as I would need. But seeing this made me feel like wow I would not be able to be of noble class or that princess because I am not slim. This is also telling our youth that they have to be slim as well to be of noble class, to be a princess. Think about it if we look at the Disney princess' as well they are slender and when a young girl looks up to them she will quickly think she has to be slim to be one of them. In fact my nest friends' daughter was on the phone with me the other day telling me how she has to watch what she eats and do sports because she has to be thin to be a princess. Now this is from a 7 year old girl, imagine she is already aware of body image and associating being with being a princess, scary thought. To the small paragraph in Marie Antoinette's biography the first thing that struck out to me was her having to redress in stylish clothes. She was being forced to dress, again subservient, to please the King and of course others in the court. To me this is telling young girls and even myself that we have to dress in the latest styles to be seen at all. That if we wear hand me downs or last week's fashions then we are not worth the time of others and even seen as not pretty. Fashion dictates what we have to wear, our appearance, which is not correct. Beauty should not be judged by appearance alone, it should be what is on the inside as well, but in our world this is not the case. And perhaps this stems back to the days of Ms. Antoinette because the people let it be, they did not say a word or fight back for more, the women, they let men simply walk all over them and in the end who is paying we are. The fact that she also came with her court goes back to her not being able to do anything herself, that she was a princess so she could not make her own decisions. In a sense, well to me, it also makes a princess seem not smart or does not have to be smart. After all she has a court of people at her beckoning call so why does she need an education; and also looks are more important. In the final piece we read Marie was very direct to Marie Antoinette in telling her how she should act since she was a woman of nobility. Now Marie did not even see this first hand this was from stories people informed her of or her family. On one hand I can understand the mother telling Ms. Antoinette not to laugh in people's faces as this is just the right thing to do, it is the correct message for all of us. If we do not know people we should not laugh at them we should simply walk

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