Barbie Doll by Marge piecy

 This poem is about how young women in our society are pressured from birth to fit society general idea of what beauty is.The young woman in this poem was ridiculed by her classmates  for having a fat nose and thick legs . This lowered her self esteem so much that she even began to apologize for how she looked . She was given advice to loose weight instead of advice to accept herself as she was born .  She eventually got  forced into believing that her appearance was more important than her qualities. Sad to say this happens in our society a lot .Women are pressured  to fit into  this general idea of what beauty is by society . Nose misshaped? get a nose job, small breast? get a breast augmentation, and women submit to this idea's and are willing to risk their life and go under the knife to feel beautiful.  People in our society have to realize that  generalizing how a beautiful woman should look has an affect on our young women. Things like barbie dolls for example  foster young women to believe that it's only what is seen on the outside that make you beautiful and  to disregard who you truly are on the inside.