Twenty-Something Women And The Paradox Of Sexual Freedom, By Leslie Bell

How social stereotypes influence young females’ self-identifies Social experiences play a very important role for people and these experiences shape people's thinking and personalities in the same time. People who influenced by the social experiences will think, make decisions and even judge others by the same way, this is so-called social stereotype. These stereotypes make a lot of negative impact and pleasure for the individuals in the group, especially for females. They are the biggest victims of these social stereotypes. Leslie Bell points out this issue in her “Selections From Hard to Get: Twenty-Something women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom”. In her paper, she points out the social stereotypes about female and show how these stereotypes

The modern society allows young women liberate their natural. However it also bring some new problems for them, one of the biggest problem is that make them easy to lose their goal. Bell points out “I have found them to be more confused than ever about not only how to get what they want but what they want” (Bell 26). For now, young women have right to pursue what they want but the problem is they do not have very clear ideas about what they want especially for these young women who suffered by these stereotypes for a long time. Their final goal is get rid of these oppression but when they really done they lose their goal. Bell also points out “women such as Jayanthi represent a new take on the dilemma of female desire: at ease with sexual desire, but ill at ease with desire for a relationship” (Bell 30). Many young women now are scared by the stable relationship because they afraid that if they fall in love with someone will make them lose their freedom, which as a independent person. This is sequelae of the stereotypes oppression and this sequelae also make them lose the ability and courage to love someone. They spend too much they energy to fight with these inequalities issue and social stereotypes, they may take another long time to learn how to trust and love the other person. When these young victims of social stereotypes recall their lives story, they may feel very