Girls against girls | Chloe Anderton | TEDxSaint Ignatius College Geelong Youth

Why are girls taught to compete with each other? This TEDx talk, given by student Chloe Anderton at Saint Ignatius College Geelong, uses the Barbie movie as a starting point to look at how girls learn to compare themselves through social media, school, expectations and the way they see other girls. It examines how jealousy, judgement and comparison can make another girl's success feel like a loss of one's own. The speaker asks what might change if girls rethought competition, supported one another and learned to be the girl they needed. The talk closes with the question of who taught girls that they are against each other. Source: TEDx Talks.

• Using the Barbie movie to examine how girls learn to compare themselves
• How jealousy, judgement and comparison affect views of other girls' success
• Rethinking competition and supporting other girls
• Where the idea that girls are against girls comes from

Tonight, I will explore why girls are taught to compete with each other. Through the Barbie movie, I look at how girls learn to compare themselves through social media, school, expectations and the way we see other girls. I look at how jealousy, judgement and comparison can make us feel like another girl’s success makes our own success smaller. I ask what could happen if we changed the way we think about competition, supported other girls, and learned to be the girl we needed. Most importantly, I ask, who taught us that girls are against girls? Student Saint Ignatius College Geelong This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx