Always #LikeAGirl – Unstoppable

Always #LikeAGirl – Unstoppable

Instructions:

Please watch the “Like A Girl” video. please identify the different stereotypes that girls and women are subjected to in this video and say how they respond to stereotypes about them.Please answer the follow question below.

How do they interpret the phrase “like a girl”? Why?
What differences do you see between the young girls and the young women?
Why do you think this is?
What impact or influence does this phrase have on a young girl? Why?
What could be done to change the perception that using stereotypes like this is acceptable

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How do they interpret the phrase like a girl? Why?
In this short video, they interpret the phrase “like a girl” to mean that there are specific forms of characters that a girl should have, that are separate from the figures that a boy and young men should have. Therefore whenever they girls hear the phrase like a girl the instant thought that comes into their minds is that there is a limitation that has been put in place.

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