Pretty Fierce

Pretty Fierce MagazineThe name of my online magazine I want to form is Pretty Fierce. It’s combination of two words that women love to be associated with but may be insecure about one of the two words. Our role models of today for young women is a skinny, long haired, rich, pretty-eyed, big boobed, Photoshopped, exotic creation. Which is very unrealistic but it still will not stop women from trying to achieve instead of trying to be a "beautiful me." The pressure of being "beautiful" in today society has become a full time job for some young girls and women; my magazine is going to be a woman empowerment type of magazine that shows all different facets of what beauty can be. Because in a young girls eyes "if I don’t look better or like to this girl, then I am not beautiful." This is only because of the things we see and read and learn on a day today bases from our friends, media, and everywhere. Women need to understand that power comes in every form and you can be both Pretty and Fierce at the same time.

My storyAs an athlete I struggled with this growing up of being looked at a certain way because I did play sports and I was not considered girly or feminine. I caught slack from my own parents; and though at times I felt like Hmmm why don’t like makeup or can wear sweatpants instead of dresses and be totally fine with it walking in the halls, it was because I was comfortable with myself. Nobody treated me different they accepted me for me and never questioned me or thought I was any lesser of a female because I was not the typical female. I gained more respect from being myself than anything and more guys liked me that way too ( but that doesn’t really matter).Bibliography 　
-I will be using pictures
-I will be citing text from Where the Girls are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media by Susan Douglas; The New York Sociologist, Vol. 5, 2010 1 The Objectification of Women in Mass Media: Female
Self-Image in Misogynist Culture ;Stephanie Nicholl Berberick, University at Buffalo; Female Body Image
and the Mass Media: Perspectives on How Women Internalize the Ideal Beauty Standar by Kasey L.
Serdar; The Influence of Television Programs on Appearance Satisfaction: Making and Mitigating Social Comparisons to "Friends"stephen C. Want & Kristin Vickers & Jennifer Amos- I will be using examples of what messages magazines are sending to young girls by using Cosmopolitan magazine, Glamour, People, Seventeen, and Girls Life.
-Youtube videos
- I will be interviewing other females of all shapes sizes and backgrounds
-I want to interview professor Synder form Rutgers-Newark