As a teenager there will be a time where breaking the bonds of childhood, entering a world of rebellion, and being obsessed with popularity will be normal. For teenage girls, in order to acquire this popularity they need to be thin, busty, and wear revealing clothing while gossiping about peers and spending time worrying about boys and parties rather than their academics. But, where did this image of how to be a popular teenage girl come from? For decades, teen films have portrayed popular teenage girls this way and the film Mean Girls is no exception. This film not only displays how the world expects teenage girls to act, but also how difficult it is for teenage girls to resist acting this way.
Maybe she has the most privileged lifestyle or she is the prettiest but there is a dominating factor that shows her as inferior to others. For example, in the movie Mean Girls, there is a pack of girls called “the plastics” and their alpha is Regina George, who recruits a new girl named Cady and makes her over into the newest member of the clique. The other girls that are a part of the clique are all fearing of Regina because she is pretty, rich and fits the ideal white high school female. “She’s the queen B- the other two are just her little workers.” (Mean Girls). Gretchen and Karen are Regina’s faithful minions who will do whatever it takes to stay in her good graces.
Soon enough her father died and kids started picking on her about her complexion. Char the most popular girl in the grade, makes a deal with Maleeka that if she does her homework for her Char will always stick up for her and allow Maleeka to borrow clothes. Maleeka wants to be so liked by people in school she agrees and starts hanging out with Char. A new teacher than arrives at the school. Miss Saunders also gets made fun of because of the big blotch she has on her face which is her birth mark.
I promised myself never to let it happen again. The next day I turned on the T.V and to my surprise the Raptors were playing. A wonderful situation to test my new “will power”. Just then my evil sister walked by, this time with one of her girlfriends. I recognized her, the best female basketball player that played for Jarvis.
Avalon was a pretty, smart and kind girl so she was a definite threat to the popular girls. The popular girls (also known as ‘The bitches’) verbally bullied Avalon on a daily basis, but it didn’t end there. One would believe that your own home is the most peaceful and safest place, right? Wrong. For Avalon, she was also strongly cyber bullied by a group of people on multiple blog pages that were initially started by an anonymous under the username Dragon Girl.
Summers, Courtney. Cracked Up to Be. St. Martin’s Griffin: New York, 2009. In this bestselling novel, Courtney Summers tells the story of “perfect” Parker Fadley, a high school senior at Saint Peter’s High who somehow goes from being the most popular, beautiful, and smartest girl in her class while also managing to be the head of the cheerleading squad to failing most all of her classes, being kicked off the cheerleading squad, and to top it all off, being put on suicide watch. Parker has a deep secret which has led to this sudden downfall of her attitude and behavior, but finally is put to realization when her partying and out of control ways go too far, making her realize that help is what she has needed all along and the mistakes she has
In the book it says, “Unlike vaudeo, many TV situation comedies revolved around women stars.” (p. 132) Lucy, being one of these women stars, hit it off big when I Love Lucy started. This show had sixteen million viewers and rising. She is known for her humorous facial expressions, and the energy she put into making this show
This film represents both concepts of Not- belonging and Belonging. This film is about a young teenage girl Tracey Turnblad who loves the show “The Corny Collins Show” and is inspired to be famous by being on the show and being the main host. She comes across both feelings of Belonging and not belonging. Tracey gets the feeling of not-belonging is when she auditions for the show only to find out she can’t be the host or involved in dancing in the show is because of her weight and size, although she can dance. Not only did Tracey get discriminated off the show for her size, another little girl got refused because of her
Maggie’s clothing represented her character. It was very awkward and distasteful, but it made want to stare at her with disgust and amazement for being so bold. That is why the unpopular people were trying to be like her which pushed the Bippies to be bottom because they were not. The author created Maggie’s to be the red spot on white paper. She made the story change from the typical high school story; to an anyone can be popular story.
Shianna Franklin Professor Kwist English 1102 10 April 2012 Proposal/Abstract * It’s All Over Now, Pied Piper * Connie’s obsession with vanity and lack of moral upbringing places Connie in grave danger when she attracts the attention of Arnold Friend. * Connie is infatuated with her beautiful flawless looks. Many girls want to be glamorous and noticed, but in Connie’s world she thinks that her beauty is all that she has. With Connie in her on world as a young teenage girl she eventually uses her looks and attracts what is unrevealed after extensive amounts of research a sexual predator and murder. Connie being the young adolescent juvenile that she is and not listening to her friends and family about what she is portraying herself.