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Question of the Moment
Moderated by Andrew Ledbetter
School of Comm. Studies, Ohio Univ.

September 10, 2009

The idea of the "looking-glass self" suggests that our view of the "me" is shaped through the messages of others. When has someone sent you a message that functioned as a "looking-glass self" in your life?

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Kim
Hiram College
My boyfriend and I were on the outs because I thought that he was ignoring me, and choosing his hobbies and friends over me. Here I am constantly waiting at his home for hours on him to arrive, which is what he wanted for me to be there waiting with a warm meal for him, a kiss, a family without the legal attachment. I allowed him to shape me and my actions with his words, so that I could keep the relationship that I thought that I wanted because it all seemed perfect - the perfect fairy tale all women of my generation believe to be true. I allowed his words and the words of the Harlequin romance books to shape my views of the real world that I thought I lived in. My true self in the mirror is not the self that I am supposed to see.

 




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