Mean Girls Stereotypes

The movie surveyed a wide array of the troubles faced by boys and men as they try to navigate the realm of masculinity. A common theme was the command “be a man” and the cultural baggage that comes with living up to that ideal. To “be a man” means to not cry, to not be sensitive, to not let people mess with you, to respond with violence, to be angry, to drink, to womanize.

There are many different types of literacy genres, a very popular one that everyone abides to is gossiping. Everyone does it rather they realize it or not. Although everyone says, gossiping is a crime in our society, people still do it. One very famous movie everyone is aware for gossiping is, Mean Girls. In Mean Girls everyone in the High School has a clique. You either belong or you don’t. Throughout the movie you can identify the different types of groups the students have developed. “The Plastics” have made a burn book, which is basically gossiping and bullying the students and even the teachers in a pretty pink decorated book. After the book was shown to basically the whole school, everyone hated the plastics, they continued to ignore

I feel that this film is neither anti-male nor anti-female. Although I do not think it is anti-male it does put men in a negative light and makes them seem stupid. Some examples of this are the truck driver on the high way. He is disgusting and is twirling his tongue at them making sexual remakes. He is portrayed like a pig and has seems to be very stupid. Another example of this is the cop who they lock in the trunk. Some more examples are Thelma’s husband who is very stupid and controlling. All of the men in the movie fit the male stereotype as stupid, controlling, mean, and only want sex. I do think the men were stereotyped and definitely put in a negative light, but that is something women face all the time in movies and media and that

The troublesome kid in the back, maybe the most mischievous yet everyone sensed more than what came to surface. Nine times out of ten, these are the people we least expect. The Outsiders proves the two teen rivals, the beat-down and misunderstood Greasers and the picket fence Socs. S.E Hinton’s, The Outsiders, proves that the Greasers aren’t the only victims.

Do filmmakers depict teenage girls as the only bullies? A film, Mean Girls, is one of the many movies that have misconstrued teenage bullying. Mean Girls is about three white-upper class, popular girls that bully a lower class “nice” girl. Other films, such as A Cinderella Story, and Bring it On have added fuel to the fire. Filmmakers portray bullying by stereotyping, and giving a false representation of bullying.

Mean girls is b stereotypical movie about drama and mean girls in high school. Almost all events and characters are common things that can be seen throughout films based on high school. In almost all, there is always some type of popular, cruel, girl that everyone is jealous of, and in this, her name is Regina George. The popular girl often gets everything she wants, boys, popularity, and money. Regina also has two “friends” Karen and Gretchen who both seem to despise her rude behaviour. Some movies with similar characters are The Hot Chick and The DUFF. All three have popular mean girls who end up in b position where they don’t get their perfect life. Another stereotype in this movie is the new girl. In this case, Cady

Why can Stereotyping cause divisions in friend groups? As long as you can probably remember you have always made judgments about people, even if you didn't realize that you did it. In the Outsiders by S.E Hinton,the greasers face stereotype because,the town had labeled the poor side unfit for greatness or just trouble and the socs the best and the heros of the town. The socs are the rich kids and have all the money where as the greasers are the poor kids who are just trouble. Most of the greasers are only from bad families and don't have much say where they live but the socs had just stereotyped them all to be troublemakers.

Smart or dumb, white or black, short or tall, jock or a nerd; These are some assumptions society has come up with. Stereotypes exists in one way or another all around the world, from social class to careers to hair color. The world we live in today has so many stereotypes and misconception regardless of the fact not knowing that person. Our society has grouped individuals based on what they see on the outside and not what’s on the inside. Stereotypes were made so that individuals do not have to take time to get to know someone instead they can judge and get to know them based on what they hear about that particular group. Stereotypes are extended to a point where they become unreal, but no matter how far a stereotype has been taken, the

The Outsiders "Maybe the two different worlds we live in weren't so different, We saw the same sunset. " In 1967 S.E Hinton wrote the Outsiders about how different people lives are. the Outsiders are about a group of boys facing difficulties against life. Two different worlds collied making a huge mess.

Like all artwork, film both shapes and reflects the culture in which it was created. However, in order to communicate the message contained within a film, the film must be marketed in such a way that audiences enjoy and thus desire to watch it. By incorporating dance into a narrative film, film writers, directors, and produces can make their product more appealing to audiences, thereby increasing the film’s consumption. Released in 1987, Dirty Dancing uses dance in this way to enhance the plot of the movie as well as make the film more marketable to audiences. Drawing upon gender stereotypes and the assumed male gaze, Dirty Dancing generally reinforces the gender ideologies common in film released during the same time period, albeit prescribing slightly more agency to female characters than was common in similar films. Simultaneously, the film features a plot structured around the fantasy of achievement, creating a narrative around a plot device that is historically popular among a variety of audiences. In this way, Dirty Dancing has become a lastingly popular film, despite the fact that its use of the male gaze and gender stereotypes to tell a story structured around a plot reinforcing the fantasy of achievement reveal the problematic dominant views of its time period.

Have you ever judged someone when you first saw them, if so you’re just like other people. According to Google dictionary, “A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” We treat people the way we do because of prejudice and stereotypes. People will stereotype you because of how you dress and who you hangout with.

In the teen comedy Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, the protagonist (Cady Heron) is welcomed into the stereotypical high school setting after being raised in Africa for all of her educational path. Cady, never being in a public-school setting, comes across the Plastics: Regina George (unspoken leader), Gretchen Wieners (gossip queen), and Karen Smith (the stupid, clueless one), who are at the top of the social pyramid. Befriended by the girls, Cady is left to decide whether or not she belongs in this clique or if her place exists in a different one. Throughout the film satirist and comedic scenes are used to show the different sexist lenses and stereotypes that women are viewed with.

The film I will be analyzing is American Beauty written by Alan Ball. I will be discussing the representation of men and the male body. This late 90’s narrative structure film “American Beauty” narrates the changes in gender roles and how they have impacted society in contrast to the traditional male bread winners and female homemakers of past times. The characters in this film are defined through their sexuality in the roles they play. This film also relates to the theme of identity and explores the expectations society has placed on stereotypes in how we function and how we identify ourselves.

Males are seen as powerful intelligent and strong. In the movie during a scene which all the soldiers are training Captain Li Shang is instructing them by singing the song “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” This song is discriminatory towards women with its lyrics of. “Did they send me daughters, when I asked for sons?” saying that women are incapable of being strong and powerful like men. The song is basically saying that male traits are preferable to female traits in every way.

In well-known fairy tales the males and females characters are often portrayed in the same light. The male characters are often described as the hero with strong masculine traits while the female characters are portrayed as the damsel in distress. Throughout the years fairytales have been casting the same stereotypes for their characters. In the story Beauty and the Beast the author de beaumont depiction of what an ideal woman is lays in Beauty. She is meant to embody the role of a feminine, humble caretaker, lover, and savior. The author depicts males as provider’s, however, it is clear that the men in the story are dependent on a positive female figure for life. Beauty’s disappearance threatens both her father and beast with death, symbolizing