My Parents Being Zoologists By F. Scott Gilman. D. Gilman

The movie “mean girls” is about a sixteen-year old homeschooled girl named Cady Heron who lived in Africa for the last 12 years of her life. After 12 years she returns to the United States and is now going to High school. Attending public school for the first time in her life. The homeschooled girl entered girl world that is full of lies, drama, gossip, boys and rules. She started hanging out with the “Plastics” and become friends with. The movie showed many example of conflict management styles, it reflects on the American culture values and beliefs, and power style.

Mean Girls was a movie about a girl named Cady entering a new culture. Cady is from South Africa, her family moved to the United States and she is going to start high school. When she started school it was a very big culture shock. There were new social norms Cady had to follow. The movie Mean Girls it showed may different issues of societies such as changing yourself to be accepted by a group of people and also women being treated like objects.

The movie Mean Girls favors popular culture when it comes to fashion, music, and trends. When Cady and Janis cut holes into Regina’s tank top a majority of the girls also did so because the most popular girl so it was considered to be cool. Most people try to fit in to avoid being harassed by those who are popular and those who dare to not conform are more vulnerable to harassment. The girls who attended Cady’s school were more likely to make fun of eachother than the boys.

“When you get bit by a snake, you have to suck out all the poison, that’s what I had to do, suck all the poison out of my life.” This quote tells us that Cady Heron regrets doing what she did. She believes that she must apologize to the people she hurt. In Mean Girls, Cady undergoes many changes, just like any animal who must change according to its surrounding. Cady had been homeschooled for sixteen years in Africa spending her life with animals. Now, that she moved to America she still had some animal instincts. She changes dramatically in the movie from the start to the very end. She was a loner in the beginning of the book, but luckily, Janis and Damian befriend her. When she first joined the school, she was a proper lady, who doesn’t want

According to the movie, Mean Girls, Cady Heron joins a popular, shallow group of friends while maintaining a friendship with two outcasts. “I know it may look like I was being like a [plastic], but that’s only because I was acting like a [plastic].” Cady develops two personalities to fit in with two opposite social ranks. Among the plastics, she acts popular, dresses nice, and talks sassy. On the contrary, Cady acts normal with the outcasts without any pressure.

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

“Mean Girls” was a movie released in 2004, little to be known, it is a popular movie that does an exemplary job in demonstrating all four sociological perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and feminism. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), the main actress, is a transfer student from Africa to the States. Her entire life, she had been home-schooled until she entered a public high school, having to learn to the social expectation and norms that she had not been exposed to before. Cady became best of friends with “the out crowd” who were Janis, supposedly a lesbian, and Damian, who is portrayed as homosexual. They introduce the new student to the cliques of the school, where Cady

Cady represents the tragic hero in Mean Girls. A tragic hero is a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities (Johnson, Arp 1294). Cady would be considered “noble” because she has been accepted by “The Plastics,” the most beautiful and popular girls in the school. She is also a smart, kind-hearted and shy girl. However, the longer she is a “Plastic,” her personality changes, and not in a good way. She pretends like she is better than everybody else. Her manner of talking is exactly like “The Plastics,” very haughty. This change in her personality represents another

In the chosen segment of the film “Mean Girls” (Michaels, Shimkin & Fey, 2004), interpersonal communication is negatively broken down due to the barriers caused by the characters. The primary character Cady has recently moved to Chicago to attend High School, she makes friends with Regina, Gretchen and Karen who are the plastics, they’re called this because of their mean and judgemental behaviour. Regina is the groups leader, she quickly becomes controlling over Cady’s emotions and decisions, she phones Cady to talk about her feelings about Aaron which is Regina’s ex-boyfriend. Another reason she phoned to talk to Cady is to talk abut Gretchen, which she isn’t aware that Gretchen is also eavesdropping on the other line, Regina attacks and manipulates Cady to gossip and create rumours about Gretchen. This movie contained a lot of ineffective interpersonal communication which resulted in conflicts, as shown through this segment of the video clip.

The movie's protagonist, Cady Heron, a new student previously homeschooled in Africa, is initially introduced as the new, innocent girl. She is first befriended by Janis and Damian, the stereotypical free-spirited, artsy types. From the start, they immediately give her the lay of the land, outlining the cafeteria scene and advising her on who and who not to be friends with. The Plastics, foil to the characters mentioned above, are the highly popular group of girls headed by Queen Bee, Regina George. Within the week, eventually, Damian and Janis convince Cady to join The Plastics in an attempt to dethrone Regina, but instead, she is transformed completely into a real Mean

Teenager Cady Heron was educated in Africa by her zoologist parents. After 12 years of being in Africa, her family moves back to the United States, in the suburbs of Illinois. Cady is unprepared for her first day of public high school, but with the help of Janis and Damien she learns about various cliques. Janis and Damien warn her to avoid the school’s most exclusive clique, the trio of girls called the Plastics led by Regina. Of course, the Plastics take interest in Cady and invite her to go shopping with them. Janis decides to hatch a plan to get revenge on Regina using Cady since she was accepted into the Plastics. Once Cady is a part of the Plastics, she learns about Regina’s top secret book (the “Burn Book”) filled with vicious rumors,

I learned that I had been mistaken in the concept of gender identity in my past. Indeed, gender equality for me meant the way a person perceives himself or herself about others. However, I laid much importance on the role of the society in determining an individual’s gender identity. Arguably, the society defines gender identity thus; by default has an influence on a person’s gender identity. I wrongly believed that a person does not have the right to determine their gender identity. This premise was corrected, and changed, after watching the film, Don’t Know Dick in the class. The movie is not only an intense documentary on gender identity, but it also serves as a learning tool, helping the viewer understand fully the concept of gender

West and Zimmerman claim that gender is not something we are but something we do.

Throughout the movie there was one part of gender socialization which is defined as, “learning society ‘gender map,’ the paths in

Gender does not mean women, although it is closely associated with the feminist theory. It has been argued according to Etten (2010), that “there is no consensus on either the nature or significance of gender identities, how they are produced, or whether they should be reinforced, modified, or abolished, even among feminists, who by no means have a monopoly on gender theory” (p.2). In this context, gender is often referred to as “socially learned behaviors, repeated performances, and idealized expectations that are associated with and distinguish