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It centers on females and how they act at that certain age. The four mean girls, Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Karen Smith and Cady Heron represent the stereotypes of the popular girls of high school. The role of gender plays an important role in the movie. The movie discusses the aspects of how a “typical” teenage girl should be, in order for her to fit in.

Her yearbook, that she was only in once, really brought her down emotionally. She went to a hearing school and that’s why it was such a struggle to fit in

In the film Heathers social behavior, props and lighting influences our attention to the film and shapes our feelings about the characters. Teenagers in Westerburg High School where social cliques are exhibited makeup the distinction amongst its students. For example, Heather “one” is the queen bee and she “rules” the school. Her character is revealed when she tells Veronica to write a horny note that is placed on Martha “Dumptruck” Dunnstock’s tray. She is then ridiculed when she walks up to the jock who supposedly wrote the note to her by his hysterical laughter when reading “his” note.

According to Pam Munoz Ryan, a girl gets to school one morning to find out that she doesn’t get invited to the popular kid’s, Bridget, party. All the people in her friend group are going, but she is the only one excluded. Her friends try to make it less awkward with her, but she ignores them and begins to doubt her appearance and how that might be the reason that she wasn’t invited. She begins her classes and get’s more and more anxious

The high school hierarchy has affected adolescents for generations and it is not a particularly positive characteristic of the American society. However, it does play an important role despite the often negative outcomes. In 10 Things I Hate About You, most, if not all, the characters are placed into a stereotype, true to their behavior or not. For example, Kat and Patrick were placed into the delinquent category due to their rejection of others, rules, and popular ideas. Though their outward appearances make it appear to be true, their real experiences and qualities prove that discrimination to be false.

There are three key characters of that squad; Brianna, who is constantly called fat when she can’t be over 120 pounds; Amber, Britney’s best friend on the team and the only Asian man cast member; and most importantly, Winnie. Winnie is the “backstabbing frenemy” character who is always trying to undermine Britney despite the fact that they’re supposed to be friends. Britney’s father loses his well-paying job and their family has to move to “the other side of the tracks” and Britney must leave her squad and boyfriend, Brad, behind for Crenshaw Heights. To keep it short, she has a difficult time adjusting to a mostly black school that has high security and so little funding

The GSA Girls played with the line between masculine and feminine identities through gender maneuvering. “Gender maneuvering refers to the way groups act to manipulate the relations between masculinity and femininity as others commonly understand them.” (116) These girls were politically active in their approach to masculinity and sexuality, something that caused friction with school administration. An example was when the Homecoming Pep Rally fell on National Coming Out Day.

As the story begins she beings with a small plan to get nominated in the first place. She’s already confident she will be but she wants to have the most possible votes behind her. So, when she finds out when and how her boyfriend is going to ask her to homecoming, she gets it recorded. The video goes viral and she is confident in her nomination. Though when she discovers that new girl Erin Hewitt and outsider Ivy Proctor are on the nomination list she isn’t happy.

The film Mean Girls is an American comedy movie for teens that illustrates the mainstream high school experience in the west. The main character, Cady Heron is a sixteen-year-old girl who is a new student at bob school in Illinois. Cady moved from being home-schooled in Africa, and therefore is unaware of the environment and lifestyle at a public high school. Cady then meets Daemon and Janis, who are part of an outcast group. Janis and Damien expose Cady to the norms of their school, talking her through cliques, and most importantly introducing her to “the plastics”, a group that Janis and Damian hated.

Popularity, after all, is a status that many teenagers like to reach. Crystal tries to gain popularity when she suggests that she knows “what to do about the new vandalism policy,” which was her first step into popularity (Evans 208). Executing an elaborate plan to vandalize her school is amusing to Crystal and her friends. Crystal’s plan succeeded. She went from being known as anti-social to Cee-Cee, and her popularity skyrocketed.

Gabriella is almost immediately recruited to be a part of the school’s prestigious Scholastic Decathlon Team. “Our Scholastic Decathlon team has its first competition next week and there is certainly a spot for you!” Another common stereotype attached to Gabriella is the “new girl.” This stereotype usually entails shyness and discombobulation.

Mean Girls: implicit and explicit social norms, conformity, obedience Cady Heron’s life changed dramatically when she moved to a suburban area in Illinois, after living in Africa and being homeschooled her whole life. She started at North Shore High and quickly got sucked into the stereotypical girl drama. Prior to the drama, Cady met two of her best friends Damian and Janis, who were apart of the out-caste clique.

Junior’s uniqueness makes his classmates find him strange. Junior’s growing up and learning on his own. While in “How Boys Become men,” it’s more of a process rather than learning from your mistakes. Which can be argued that the list is useless but the list shows character it shows the reader that he experienced

She had to act and dress older than all her friends. Her life in every way was different than all the other girls she knew, because she stood out so much. Due to her being a Puerto Rican woman, she was always labeled and stereotyped. Cofer said Latin women

Mean Girls, set in Illinois, depicts the socio-political climate of an American high school, with it’s protagonist, Cady Heron moving from Africa and homeschooling to be socialised in her new society. The antagonist throughout the film, Regina George, is portrayed as an authoritarian woman who has total control of the school (Mean Girls 2004). Regina is shown to engage with numerous sexual partners at the same time and promotes her liberation through wearing a tee-shirt with her bra protruding out the front when she finds two holes cut at her breasts; motivating a new fashion trend throughout the cohort (Mean Girls 2004, Robinson-Cseke 2009, p. 45). This depiction of a strong, independent woman aligns with ‘Post-feminist texts-films, books, magazines and television programs characterised by a model of young womanhood that is empowered, successful, entitled, independent, socially mobile and free to choose her destiny’ (Toffoletti 2008, p. 72). Post feminism is further reflected in the film through the power change which occurs, transferring from Regina to Cady, mirroring the transfer of power from second wave feminism to post feminism.