I’m currently planning to write my stereotypes in the media paper on high school cliques. I’m going to base the paper off of the movie “Mean Girls”, which was inspired by the book Queen Bees and Wannabees. Basically, the overall argument is that high school cliques, and especially how the “in crowd” is emphasized in the media, ultimately leads to negative results.
In looking up blogs, I basically ran into personal ones… people ranting on about how either high school sucked or how people from high school never change. There was one girl from “Contessa Confessa” that was talking about how she recently joined Facebook, and all the girls she went to high school with started friend requesting her. People still fake their comments on how “noooo, so-and-so hasn’t gained weight” … when they have, or how “so-and-so” has the cutest kids” … when they don’t. Also, people seem to ignore the fact that other people can see “activity” between two people on Facebook, even if the nasty comment they write about someone isn’t meant to be seen. Even though I could comment on her blog, it seems to personal for a completely stranger to do so. I really agree with her though. Some people are just destined to be mentally stuck in high school.
In looking up blogs, I basically ran into personal ones… people ranting on about how either high school sucked or how people from high school never change. There was one girl from “Contessa Confessa” that was talking about how she recently joined Facebook, and all the girls she went to high school with started friend requesting her. People still fake their comments on how “noooo, so-and-so hasn’t gained weight” … when they have, or how “so-and-so” has the cutest kids” … when they don’t. Also, people seem to ignore the fact that other people can see “activity” between two people on Facebook, even if the nasty comment they write about someone isn’t meant to be seen. Even though I could comment on her blog, it seems to personal for a completely stranger to do so. I really agree with her though. Some people are just destined to be mentally stuck in high school.
“Girls Just Want to be Mean” was an article published in New York Times Magazine in February 2002. It covers Rosalind Wiseman’s class, author of Queen Bees and Wannabees, as her students go through Apologies Day. Wiseman knows the Alpha girl dominance a Queen Bee can have over a group, and she knows that not everyone can be everyone’s best friend if she’s going to get chucked out of the popular girl group by doing so.
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im really interested to see where you go with this because even when i was in highschool i was sick of the highschool mentality that people had. it was always about drama, whos messin with who and although i guess thats a part of growing up it only encouraged people to degrade others and become judgemental. and for some reason it seems to stick and just carry over into the next stage of life, only in a different way. well good luck with that
ReplyDeleteps. make sure u write a bitchen paper...mean girls is one of my classics! lol
High School cliques is a topic portrayed in media in several different ways. Mean Girls is a perfect example to explain these cliques, and represents the diversity between them all. Another source that would be good consider is gossip girl.. the "popular" clique is portrayed very well through out this T.V. series. People have so many perceptions of each clique and its only natural that some cliques hate others. Many times, choosing which clique you are involved in is very superficial and based on the way you look before the way that you act. This is a really good topic to research how the media tries to portray it.
ReplyDeleteI LOVED the movie Mean Girls, and girls are mean. Most of my friends are guys because girls are a lot quicker to backstab each other over the silliest of things. I'm really excited to read your paper and see what kind of spin you put on it!
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