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Doll face did not start putting makeup on until she saw images of someone with makeup on. As the pictures progressed, Doll face continued to try to mimic its preconceived notion of how it should look like a Woman. The TV kept moving further away to the point that the Doll Face had extended its full length, continuing to overextend until the doll face broke, I saw that as to show that Doll Face kept moving further and further away from reality. It's authentic self to the point of death, chasing its preconceived notion of what it ought to be. According to Butler, there is no inherent social identity that we are destined to fill (Butler, 1999). It's what we will it to be (Butler, 1999). Gender is a kind of improvised performance (Butler, 1999). Butler's analysis of society about sexuality and gender concludes that there is a display of dominance that shows the way that biology is influenced by culture and society (Butler, 1999). Gender-related identity is socially constructed (Butler, 1999). Identity is a conceptual category that traps the fluidity of the self into a societal normativity (Butler, 1999). Queer theory is, by definition, whatever is at odds with the standard, legitimate, and dominant (Halperin, 1995). It is an identity without an essence (Halperin, 1995). Sartre argues that existence precedes essence and is a central claim of existentialism (“Existentialism,” 2015). To existentialists, human beings create their values and determine a meaning for their life because the human does not possess any inherent identity (“Existentialism,” 2015). The individual must create that identity; this established identity is fluid (“Existentialism,” 2015). You can choose to act differently, and there is no predetermined essence; an individual's essence is defined through how that individual creates and lives his or her life (“Existentialism,” 2015). How can we be our authentic selves in a world where the notion of gender identity is socially constructed? Selfhood is a process that rejects the perceived inferiority within the social order (Butler-Bowdon, n.d.). Baudrillard would argue that a person today is not a project in

selfhood; instead of that, a person today is more like a machine that consumes and reproduces the ideas and images that are currently in the media, advertising, and politics – precisely what is portrayed in Doll Face (Butler-Bowdon, n.d.). In learning of the notion of hyperreality, I have come to the disturbing realization that most people are unaware that this has even happened (Butler-Bowdon, n.d.). We live in a world where there are more and more information and less and less meaning (Butler-Bowdon, n.d.). Advertising has become the core of our civilization and the commodities that it points to are relatively valueless (Butler-Bowdon, n.d.). What matters is our identification with the stories, signs, and imagery that front the products and our desire to consume (Butler-Bowdon, n.d.).

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