Nacirema : les françaises

Thèmes abordés

Women, french, fashion, weight, NACIREMA, communication

Résumé du document

Get ready little girls, the fight is just started.

You are 20 -something and everything's are almost all right but it is just the begging! Will you survive the men's world and even more difficult: the other women of your generation, and your famous French woman reputation?

Nacirema or an implicit resume on french women tricks, habits and fears !

Extraits

[...] They forget the reality: like dad and mum morphologies, family diners, gym motivation and the classical one: to order a salad when you keep stealing your boyfriends' French fries doesn't work neither It is a real religion, as they all do the same rituals, have the same trust and annual date ceremonies At New Year Eve “this year I go to the gym and start a diet next week” Birthday “I should buy this tiny little dress size: 14 years old as I can motivate myself to be thin” Several days during the year At the doctor's waiting room: stealing “Elle” magazine's diet methods. Last week end: Tried to put on a teenager jean in secret. The weight is not the only preoccupation Are them so natural? French women live in heaven of luxury cosmetic product and can spend just 100 euros in Sephora to look much more beautiful than the day before. The challenge is to maintain this icon of feminity class and wonder woman. [...]

[...] « Les françaises » and their appearance obsession: never underestimate what French women really do Many men use to say French women are the most beautiful in the world. According to them, French women are recognizable, they “stand out”. They are styled, wear haute couture clothes. And above all they are naturally beautiful. Here we are But who are really those creatures? Are they real? What is the reality and the background this phantasm? French women are obsessed by their weight. [...]

[...] Social life? Yes, it means business dinner included a proper French meal : seven courses at the restaurant, full amount of bread on the table waiting for you when you are starving because you refuse to take your breakfast this morning as a new diet method. Look still ok at 9 p.m at the office when your make up run away and your feet (in fire due to high heels) are calling your Nike.try to hide as much as possible your calves because they getting muscled according to 8 hours up of 8 centimeters because like that you look taller. [...]

[...] Here we go You go to the train station and look for a newspaper when you blink is attracted by “le regime Dukan, miracle 2010”, then your mother is calling you to meet at noon for the dejeuner: “where do you want to have lunch? Maybe a small brasserie They have lovely salads” Hello It is 8.45 ; you know that you going to be starving at 1 p.m and you are already frustrated of your appearance even if nobody told you something, not a word. It is weird? No It is how French woman's brain is working every single day. When you are proud to wear size 38 all over the word, you just hide it is France. [...]