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According to the movie Cusp and viewing Alice's "everyday" life some observations I made many observations as far as gender and power is concerned. The ones that stuck out most to me was how Alice always had to put on gloss to show that she was a girl as well as popular with her friends in the bathroom. Also how she was told by her mother's friend and neighbor that she had to look gorgeous and dress up and put on make-up everyday in order to get and keep a man. In addition to that, there was no male figure in her household so her mom treated Alice as adult at times and a child at other times as far as parenting . All the boys or men in the movie were stupid and treated women poorly but made women's life miserable when they were without them. These observations are specific to Alice's life because this made her confused growing up. She didn't know whether to act like an adult at times or a child. She also didn't know the definition of a real woman and started to have low self-esteem because she thought a woman has to be gorgeous everyday as far as dressing up and putting on make-up, instead of just excepting herself and realizing that she is beautiful no matter what. Lastly, she was confused about men as far as were they really needed and how they really treated women so did she really want a man in her life or not. Alice's frustrations ultimately resulted in confrontation with "limits" of power because since her mom treated her like an adult sometimes and a child at other times her n her mom got in a confrontation and in the end of the movie she learned how to stand up for herself no matter what by standing up to her friend who was supposedly still popular and fighting back with kung fu boy. She had never saw the people around her stand up for themselves so she was very proud of that.