Olives Double Standards

High school is commonly referred to as hell by it’s residents. The reason why is that the social setting is complex and anything told, whether it being the truth or not, is spread around like a wildfire on dry grass. Easy A is a comedic movie about a seventeen year old girl named Olive Pendergast, who is in high school. Olive lies to her best friend about losing her virginity and the rumour spreads around the school. Soon after she also lies about having sex with guys and gets paid to do so causing others to assume she is a prostitute. In anger, she marks her clothes with the letter “A” meaning adultery. She lies for the sake of others comfort throughout the film until finally, someone tries to make her lies a reality. In the end, she tells everyone the truth and finally understands to keep her sex life away from her social life. Through the movie, Easy A, we will be looking through the character, Olive Penderghast, and her relationships with adults, what she is capable of, and her self-regulation.

The representation of the LGBT community in the film industry has long been a topic of much debate. In her article, “It Ain’t Easy Being Bisexual on TV,” Amy Zimmerman addresses this topic with specific interest on bisexual representation. By appealing to the logic of her audience, using an informal tone, and referring to relatable content, Zimmerman constructs an argument which persuades readers of The Daily Beast that the film industry is unfairly and inaccurately representing bisexuals. However, her argument holds little influence over those who are not movie fans or The Daily Beast readers.

He adopts an ambivalent tone in order to examine the conflicting views of high school genre films. Denby’s purpose in writing this essay is to show how the overuse of these stereotypes results in few original teen films. Original movies expose their viewers to a diverse range of people and ways of thinking. Adolescents often mirror or find inspiration in the characters they see in media, so it is important to depict a variety of people in media targeted towards them. People of various sexual orientations should be represented more prominently and truthfully in media targeted towards children in order to promote acceptance and provide role models for those exploring their identity.

Olive quickly gains popularity when most of the student body witnesses, from the other side of the door, her having sex at a party with a boy from school. Little does everyone know that it is all a ruse to get them to think that Brandon, her fake sex partner, is not gay in hopes that this very public display of sexual activity will prevent daily beatings at school and it works! (Perry et al., 2011)

Nonetheless, the disclosure that surrounds the rape of the woman does not break away from the customary views on violence especially towards women. In the entire movie, women are depicted and viewed as extremely traditional and passive. They are supposed to follow whatever is required from them. Gender through the movie exists in the similar way through which race exists. The society in the movie is largely patriarchy, and gender is unconsciously used for the purpose of justifying oppression and patriarchal

I expected this topic to appear several times in the novel simply because of the time period, and it's one of my favorite problems to talk about. Gender roles and gender binaries are pressed on children as early as birth. In this time period, people went as far as to make it into a sort of law in Alabama. The Ladies Law made it prohibited to use vulgar language around women and girls, which was seen as unfit for them to hear. Feminine attire, dialect, and actions weren't just expected from women, it was mandatory. A woman that didn't fit these standards was viewed as a problem. These women were dehumanized and seen as people that needed to be 'fixed'. To make things worse, women that didn't meet these expectations were seen as more masculine.

3) One of the films would be Erin Brockovich, were Erin is judge for being a single mom based on her appearance she is also label as a whore an example would be Ed that tells her that she looks like someone that likes to have fun, these is of course the stereotypes that society inputs on her. Erin in the film does not meet the ideologies of being femininity and at the end we see that she does succeed at work but her love life and family gets scarified by these.

The movie chosen to be written about was “Easy A” where the director, Will Gluck, directs a film about a student, Olive Penderghast, who feels bad for those who do not necessarily fit in. Therefore, she allows them to spread rumors about her and certain sexual exploitations. In doing so she becomes the school’s most talked about student, while jeopardizing her reputation, while at the same time making some financial gains. She first pretends to lose her virginity to a friend who is too afraid to come out and say he is gay, causing praise for him and humiliation for her. This rendezvous begins a whirlwind of endeavors and a chain reaction of situation she would soon regret. Luckily, in this movie, there is also a

When it comes to female characters, authors depict women with a sense of realism, that being that they are a common folk with a usually large but simple impact in the story. On the contrary, John Steinbeck’s female characters in his novel East of Eden do not have the sense of being normal women, and he goes to extremes when it comes to the women being good or bad. Faye, Olive, and Cathy are all women that have taken to extremes in their acts of kindness or evil. Faye is too good of a person, especially in the society that she is in. Olive helps an enormous amount in the military with work she has done that seemed unlikely for her to do by herself. Cathy, on the other hand, commits horrible acts that would immediately classify her as mental, but is ironically one of the smartest characters in the novel. These kinds of women are uncommon, especially in their society.

In both Oleanna and History Boys the writers include many controversial subjects to portray the characters in the plays to be both vulnerable and villainy. In Oleanna, Mamet involves sexual harassment and power throughout the play. Although, instead of using scenarios of sexual harassment near the time of the play (Clarence Thomas vs. Anita Hill) Mamet elects to centralize the subject of sexual harassment within the relationship of John being a college professor and Carol who is Johns student. However, the understanding of sexual harassment, and moreover rape doesn’t

This film paints multiple stereotypes and over exaggerates them to emphasize their relevance in society in hopes of changing the audiences' viewpoint of these stereotypes set before women.

I feel like this shows that there are gender stereotypes, but it doesn’t always have to be pointed out by a guy, it could be pointed out by another female. The Plastics put that into view especially when bashing other girls and guys in their classes. For instance, Regina made comments about joining the Mathletes was “social suicide”, and then when Regina made a derogatory joke about Janis’ sexuality. Gender stereotypes start from cliques, especially those cliques who look down on others. Regina even use to call Gretchen fat and not even pretty, because no one was as pretty as Regina.. The Popular clique in my school were the really beautiful/handsome kids, the girls would always make rude remarks about other girls in other cliques. They would say they were “fat and ugly” “four eyed loser” “band geek”; there were also ruder remarks that I don’t think are appropriate. Another gender stereotype from “Mean Girls” would be Karen being a dumb blonde girl. This is considered a gender stereotype because society has portrayed blonde women as being dumb in comedy movies/television shows and cartoons. Damien was the stereotypical homosexual that was boldly flamboyant. In society he would know as the stereotypical gay guy who has always been gay since he was born. He was in a outcast clique with Janis because they didn’t fit in to other cliques since Damien was gay and Janis was labeled as a lesbian (even though she wasn’t). Sometimes being labeled as homosexual is not always considered genetic because people start rumors about other being gay and it sticks. I feel like the clique Damien is put in should be considered sexual inequality because he is considered to be an outcast for being

While watching the “Ladies Room” episode of Mad Men, a lot of traditional gender roles were portrayed. Gender roles are often defined as how a society defines how women and men should think and behave. Men are often taught to show instrumental qualities, such as competitiveness, dominance, and confidence, while women exhibit more expressional qualities, such as empathy and sensitivity. The Mad Men episode started off with a man showing dominance by being demanding towards a waitress. While at work, the men competed against each other all while messing around and having fun at work. Women in the episode expressed themselves by gossiping and showing feelings towards others.

Social psychology is essentially the study of how human beings interact, behave and think around others. It is rooted in explaining the various different experiences we face each day in our social lives. Nowadays, film-makers try to depict these psychological phenomena in their movies to make them realistic. One such movie stars Emma Stone, an Oscar winner playing the role of Olive in the film “Easy A”. The film in short describes the high school life of a chaste girl, Olive, who conforms to peer pressure and starts lying about her sexual behavior in order to maintain a certain reputation as well as to help out her troubled friends. This eventually leads her to challenge her self concepts to extreme levels, causing her to either liberate herself from the façade she created or sink into the role. Easy A describes many genuine psychological phenomena and I am going to focus on three of them; Cognitive dissonance theory, how societal and cultural norms dictate our attitudes and thoughts, and different ways of persuasion.

To begin with, the power in the relationships in the novel lean towards the women. This isn’t inherently bad, but considering a few aspects, such as how Dicken’s depiction of the female characters and that he wrote the novel in the Victorian era, this portrayal of women is misogynistic. For example, Mrs.