Given the situation in recent days with Sarah Everard and the general conversation surrounding the treatment of women in society, and being part of the 97% women that have been affected by this issue, I understandably am not entirely in the mood to read a chapter about how women are sexualised in media. This is me saying this after reading the first three paragraphs - I will continue to read it and give an opinion but I couldn't do that authentically without expressing my displeasure for it. This being said, I have decided to write my essay on the gender and identity question as I feel strongly about how the typical gender roles are depicted in media, and particularly children's media as I feel there's so much there to be changed and explored while educating the new generations. 
I don't want to be misunderstood and I can entirely understand the purpose of this reading we have been given, I don't want to come across as though I'm being angry or irrational just because I don't want to read something. I know full well everyone else will have just sat and read it and written a review as we were instructed to do - which is fine too. I fully understand the significance of the piece and I know why it was written but I'm living this life to be authentically me and nothing else - and when the routine sexualisation of women has gotten in the way of that at times - I refuse to let it happen again. I hope you see my point in reading this and I know it isn't the task we were set but hey, we're artists. We have to do our own thing sometimes. 

David Riesman was an American sociologist, educator, and best-selling commentator on American society born in 1909. In the 1950's he wrote about a distinction between majority and "which passively accepted commercially provided styles and meanings" and a subculture that actively sought out a minority style. He also wrote about the reasons that the minority have the desire to go against the grain such as; anti-consumerism mindsets, changing ideologies and wanting something different from society. 

Eboy and Egirl (the E standing for electronic because of its origins in the internet) subculture is a really new style that has come about from around 2019 and it exists exclusively on social media, particularly TikTok. For both genders there's a very particular style that they all follow and its very easy to recognise. Eboys will typically wear lots of dark clothes, chains and have long floppy fringes. They tend to act quite flirtatious and with both eboys and egirls, they act very sexually. Egirls dress similarly to eboys but with skirts and a very particular style of makeup. 
You can tell it has influences from Kpop, artists like Lil Peep, Yungblud and Doja Cat and also the early to mid 2000's emo culture with people even saying that Avril Lavigne was an egirl before it was even a thing.