May 13th: The Struggles of Being a Young Girl

Today we continued watching the documentary "SexyBaby" and observed Winifred be Winifred. She was shown to have a sleepover with her friend, Olivia, when they decided to perk up for a homemade photo shoot. They prepped for the photo shoot with the complete outfit and tried to act older than they actually are by posing certain ways and giving off different facials. At the end of the photo shoot, Winifred's dad talked to her a bit about the pictures and to not post them on facebook, but being the young girl she posted them anyway. Her posting these pictures shows she is influenced by facebook because she later says how she knows facebook changes people. The next morning her mom gets very angry with her and Winifred throws a fit even though deep down she knows she was wrong. We talked about how maybe she's throwing a fit because she knows she was wrong and this is her way of coping in the beginning. Anyways she'd had her facebook deactivated 8 times, all since she became aware of boys. Later on in the film she is picked up by her parents from an 8th grade trip and it's obvious that she'd been getting intimate with a hickie on her neck. An opinion popped up about teens not listening as much because there's no punishment and this is somewhat true because she gets no punishment for the hickie. She continues with her life and a scene shows her in acting class where the teacher talks a little bit about how the character might be feeling bad about what their doing. The scene shows that Winifred feels equal is this character because she shows signs up thought when the teacher said this. Question for thought. At one point in the documentary she starts hating gymnastics. Have you ever started not liking something you were doing to the point of protesting it to a stop?