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Using Haslanger's (2012) "crop top" example, the real world is preadolescent girls in the 7th grade, who have the belief or the "facts ” that it is “cute” and fashionable to wear crop tops and therefore influences the experiences of their world through the social interaction these girls encounter at school defining the extent of “cute.” Furthermore, in relation to the three causes of crime identified by Lea and Young (1984), this example of deviance/difference shows that the relative deprivation experienced in this example concerns "certain" girls who wear short tops and "other" girls who wear crop tops. deprived of doing so. The subculture is tied to the fact that these "other" girls are unable to achieve the "goal" of wearing a crop top, instead wearing tracksuits as a way of trying to achieve the same values ​​in this social reality of " cute". Finally, the marginalization of girls who do not wear crop tops become “chubby” girls and girls who wear crop tops are sexualized (Haslanger, 2012). In this case the forms of protest can take place through the means of 'body-shaming' or 'slut-shaming' (Papadopoulos,