Trying to fit the mold Marge Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” is an illustration of the pressure that is put on today’s women. Young girls are expected to look and act a certain way that is dictated by an unwritten set of rules of our society. Girls are taught very early in life what is expected of them. They are given dolls, miniature household appliances and “wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (4) as …showed first 75 words of 701 total…

…showed last 75 words of 701 total…to struggle for most of our existence to achieve this goal or to learn to accept and love ourselves and each other by putting more value on our internal features and not our exterior. The key to a healthy and happy future of the female population is for our society to stop judging based on external beauty and to accept, love and respect women for who they are and what they have accomplished. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**