Stereotypes In Mean Girls
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This Written Task will explore the exaggerated speech of stereotypical girls in movies. It will look at Mean Girls in particular, as the three main popular girls are known for their exaggerated speech
It is very common how movies stereotype girls as popular and dumb especially in ‘Mean Girls’ there are three girls who think they are the smartest girls in high school just because they are popular but when it comes to them speaking well your jaws will drop. “So if you are from Africa why are you white?” This uses a rhetorical question, which doesn’t get answered not by her nor the other girls. This line is from the scene where Cady Heron, played by Lindsay Lohan goes to the canteen and starts introducing herself to Regina, Gretchen and Karen, so when Regina asked Cady where she was from that is when Karen dropped that …show more content…
Why don’t they stop being her friends and make their own decisions? One adult reviewed this movie and said, “I absolutely hated this film. It is not appropriate for children. A lot of sexual themes in this one, but OK for someone 16 I think. I saw it and was about 12 and was quite shocked.” This comment tells us that before you watch the movie you will assume the theme is peer pressure but once you have actually watched until the end you will realize that the main theme is sex even when the rating was PG13. Whereas someone else said, “Mean Girls has a sharp, grownup sensibility that belies its marketing as airhead comedy.” Mark Waters who is the director of this airhead comedy must have either been an airhead or experienced them back in his high school years in order to come up with these typical dumb girls who really don’t do any sort of extra curricular activities they only sit in a café talk about boys, date school athletes, drink coffee, read the latest magazines about fashion/healthy lifestyles, make scrapbooks about everyone from school writing mean comments about each person in the
This Written Task will explore the exaggerated speech of stereotypical girls in movies. It will look at Mean Girls in particular, as the three main popular girls are known for their exaggerated speech
It is very common how movies stereotype girls as popular and dumb especially in ‘Mean Girls’ there are three girls who think they are the smartest girls in high school just because they are popular but when it comes to them speaking well your jaws will drop. “So if you are from Africa why are you white?” This uses a rhetorical question, which doesn’t get answered not by her nor the other girls. This line is from the scene where Cady Heron, played by Lindsay Lohan goes to the canteen and starts introducing herself to Regina, Gretchen and Karen, so when Regina asked Cady where she was from that is when Karen dropped that …show more content…
Why don’t they stop being her friends and make their own decisions? One adult reviewed this movie and said, “I absolutely hated this film. It is not appropriate for children. A lot of sexual themes in this one, but OK for someone 16 I think. I saw it and was about 12 and was quite shocked.” This comment tells us that before you watch the movie you will assume the theme is peer pressure but once you have actually watched until the end you will realize that the main theme is sex even when the rating was PG13. Whereas someone else said, “Mean Girls has a sharp, grownup sensibility that belies its marketing as airhead comedy.” Mark Waters who is the director of this airhead comedy must have either been an airhead or experienced them back in his high school years in order to come up with these typical dumb girls who really don’t do any sort of extra curricular activities they only sit in a café talk about boys, date school athletes, drink coffee, read the latest magazines about fashion/healthy lifestyles, make scrapbooks about everyone from school writing mean comments about each person in the