Meaning Of Mean Girls

“In American schools, the culture exalts the athlete and good-looking cheerleader. Well-educated and intellectual students are commonly referred to in public schools and the media as "nerds," "dweebs," "dorks," and "geeks," and are relentlessly harassed and even assaulted by the more popular "jocks" for openly displaying any intellect” (Williams). In my experience

In an essay published in the New Yorker in May 1999, entitled “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies,” writer David Denby analyzes movies targeted towards teenagers and the stereotypes associated with them. He begins his essay by describing the archetypal characters in high school genre films: the vapid popular girl and her athletic male counterpart, and the intellectual outsider and her awkward male counterpart. He then describes the reality of teen life, and compares it to the experience depicted in these films. Next, he analyzes the common theme that the geeky characters are the protagonists, and suggests there are such because of their writer's personal experience and a history of geeks being ostracized. Finally, Denby analyzes the tropes in

     Is High School football a sport, or is it more than that to some people? Recent newspaper headlines include such items as coaches abusing student athletes; fathers of athletes murdering coaches, and mother’s disabilitating cheerleading candidates to assure their daughters make the cheerleading team. In Odessa, Texas high school football is a major contributor to the society of a small town in Texas society. Every Friday night, 50,000 people fill the stadium to see high school students put their lives on the line to win a football game. H. G. Bissinger writes a novel called Friday Night Lights, about a year in 1988 where High School players prepare and play on the High School team, and what an impact they have

In the essay “Jock Culture” by Robert Lipsyte, the author explains the lifestyle of jocks and how there are two different types of people in the world. Lipsyte has very good points in his essay that the author mainly agrees with the essay but the author also believe there are few points that the author also disagrees with. The author believes that there is jock culture in today’s world. Although it seems like people are beginning to change. Jocks are not beginning to act like jocks anymore and people are evolving.

Many high school students identify themselves as either the nerd, the jock, or the rebel, while some students did not embrace their label, I did. I accepted my label as the so called “jock” for one main reason, leadership. Being the captain of the football team as well as the baseball team put a target on my head as someone to follow, look up to, and guide others in times of hardships and adversity.

It’s a very difficult thing for adults to write accurate and believable teenage characters. Often times, people my age are written to be significantly too stereotypical. Apparently, the middle aged white men who write most of these movies think every single teenager in high school is either an athlete with no passions other than sports or a nerd who has never looked up from a book. As someone who has only been out of high school for 6 months, I feel pretty confident in saying those stereotypes rarely exist in real life.

High school in real life is full of surprises, but according to David Denby in his article "High School Confidential," High School in the movies is very predictable. The typical Hollywood "High School Scene" opens with the jock and the cheerleader characters. Blonde and buff, the Jock and the Cheerleader are superficial and proud to proclaim it. They are popular and perky, and always too good to be true. The cheerleader is usually the enemy of the hero or heroine. She is generally rich, blonde, and queen bee of the social circle, with no sense of selflessness. The jock is usually the bully, muscular, good looking and not very smart.(Denby 343) In an essence, the male counterpart of the cheerleader. The Jock and the Cheerleader are almost

In high school, I was the typical jock--I never took a drama class (though I now wish I

When stopping to look around at the abundance of “friend groups” and cliques I couldn't help but notice how well worn and clichè they are. The quote unquote popular boys and jocks were stereotypically unnecessarily rowdy and were discussing the oh so important topic of … you guessed it football. “ Lamar Jackson is a total bada** . I knew he was gonna finess the heisman”. Of course they were swearing about sports. So original. A couple tables over and entire four long rectangular tables are filled with boy with broken hoop dreams. These boys know anything any everything when it comes to sports but were unfortunately to small short, weak or unathletic to make the cut . These boys have a better chance of being on a part of a professional team than the jocks. As an marking PA or something along those lines of course. Your typical cool asian girl are eating their home packed sushi with anime and Japanese designs all over there chopsticks. The cheer girl sit

They come to work sick, they strive to be the best. It goes to show that there can be more than just the 2 groups. Robert describes Jock Culture as a danger to the common good, and a distortion of sports. “It is fueled by greed and desperate competition.” (pg 350) Jock Culture applies the rules of competitive sports to everything. It’s to keep the fear of being known as “feminine” to the others. You want to be known, overall, as the alpha male, or masculine at least.

The affects of the jock stereotype and and how a young life and mind can be impacted by this stereotype, also what we can do to fix this. Zac Easter seemed like he had his life plan out. To everyone else he was popular, he had a loving girlfriend, good friends and a nice family so that’s why his suicide shocked the small town in Iowa. CTE is neurodegenerative disease found in people with multiple head injuries. Most commonly found in NFL or Football players.

Despite the lack of athletic prowess gifted the Slack Jaw Punks writing staff, even the most nerdy among us (Iron Squid by a mile) can not deny the joy of watching a good sports film. Also we can't deny the appreciation and longing we have to be one of the guys. On the team, ya know. I think every nerd wants to that. The D&D crew just doesn't cut it. While I did play golf in high school (somewhere between Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore), and hung out with mostly jocks (geeks are be popular too) I can't really relate to the bond built during practices, road trips, victories and defeats or group showers. (The last one I could do with out) Despite, that I can and do enjoy films about those special relationships. While Undrafted, probably won't be mentioned in conversation the same way Slapshot, Major League, or Friday Night Lights are. It's still a really nice little

In the movie Mean Girls, many different social psychology traits were displayed. The traits displayed included different parenting styles, role identity, and much more. The movie Mean Girls was based on 16 year old girl named Cady who has been homeschooled her whole life, and is thrown into a public high school. She begins to get involved with the schools popular groups called “The Plastics”, from here things escalate causing Cady to move in the wrong direction. This movie depicts some exaggerated, but very real situations that high schoolers today face every day.

The film demonstrates how people that do not channel their imagination are worse off. For instance, in the opening journey to the military base, Carmen is immediately characterized as an unbeliever, saying “you shouldn’t fill your head with such nonsense.” Along with this, she is immediately characterized as sick, which suggests a defect in her. By quickly pairing a lack of imagination with a lack of health, del Toro hints that imagination and overall well being may correlate. Furthermore, throughout the film, Ofelia has nothing positive to say about Carmen besides that she is beautiful: “She’s very pretty, even though she’s sad for many days at a time. When she smiles, you’ll love her.” Only giving Carmen compliments related to her exterior exemplifies that she has an internal problem; she represses her inner originality and imagination, and

I've always wondered why do girls stick around when you know that your significant other is abusive, manipulative, controlling, and selfish? Why do you still choose him when you know that your relationship is never going to go far? Or why not break the relationship soon before it's too late? Also, why let a guy change who you are and let him take the power over you? Now I can ask that, because back when I was in a bad relationship I was one of those girls. I wish I would've known what I got myself into, and known when to accept when a relationship has reached.