Pink Think By Lynn Peril: An Analysis
Throughout post World War II American society developed a new modernity based on their beliefs, gender roles, and the so called American way of thinking. These aspects of everyday life influenced the new American culture through movies, television shows, advertisements, as well as other events occurring during a fortunate economic time after the World War II. The post war lead to an economic boom that created events such as the automobiles, fast food restaurants, and the thoughts and ideas Americans believed were to be a true American. One in fact, was the beginning of a despairing mindset Americans based their beliefs about women, and who the ideal woman should be. Lynn Peril analyzes in her novel, “Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy
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The woman’s role in life was too much of a burden to take on, but it was told to be the true American way of living. The idea of a women maintaining her appearance, attitude, and personality through the guidelines of pink think was a thought brainwashed into women that they were doing their part in society. Since early childhood women were expected to already fill these shoes of what is to be said “true womanhood” and Lynn Peril explains that since birth there were already guidelines on how to raise your baby girl. She states, “Start your baby, especially if it is a girl, on a lifelong beauty and grooming program” (Peril 28). The idea of this was the illustration of true womanhood of how the ideal woman should and would become. The title put upon femininity that women needed to fulfill was unrealistic and untrue. The whole concept of being a women was basically not to live for yourself, but for others approval over you. There seem to be no freedom for true womanhood, but there were strict rules on how a female should look, date, behave, and so much more in order to perform true femininity in society. Consumerism during this modernity after the war was influenced by the advertisements that indoctrinated Americans as a society. These advertisements showing the perfect woman with the luscious hair, wonderful relationship, and happy life incited a stronger femininity culture than ever
The woman’s role in life was too much of a burden to take on, but it was told to be the true American way of living. The idea of a women maintaining her appearance, attitude, and personality through the guidelines of pink think was a thought brainwashed into women that they were doing their part in society. Since early childhood women were expected to already fill these shoes of what is to be said “true womanhood” and Lynn Peril explains that since birth there were already guidelines on how to raise your baby girl. She states, “Start your baby, especially if it is a girl, on a lifelong beauty and grooming program” (Peril 28). The idea of this was the illustration of true womanhood of how the ideal woman should and would become. The title put upon femininity that women needed to fulfill was unrealistic and untrue. The whole concept of being a women was basically not to live for yourself, but for others approval over you. There seem to be no freedom for true womanhood, but there were strict rules on how a female should look, date, behave, and so much more in order to perform true femininity in society. Consumerism during this modernity after the war was influenced by the advertisements that indoctrinated Americans as a society. These advertisements showing the perfect woman with the luscious hair, wonderful relationship, and happy life incited a stronger femininity culture than ever