Stereotypes In Legally Blonde

Jumping into a burning building is one of the things that the boys from the “Greaser Gang” would do for each other. When the main character, Ponyboy, jumps into a burning church to save children from the flames, his two gang members and family, Johnny and Dally, jump in after him to help get the children out and ensure that he can get out. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton shows two main themes. These themes show many examples of stereotyping could lead to misjudgment of people and to be loyal to the people around you, especially the ones close to you.

The movie's success depends on using dated stereotypes: "angry black woman," "thuggish black man," and "innocent" white women. White men,

“Shut up, I’m crying.” I can hear her from across the cafeteria. This girl is the most annoying thing in the entire world. She literally only missed one point and she’s crying about it. Newsflash, it's not the end of the world. She does this all the time, it makes me want to strangle her! I can’t believe that someone hasn’t done it yet. She fits almost every stereotype at one time. Carrie is the perfect girl for the first five minutes of a horror movie. Little Miss Perfect Carrie, never got below a hundred until today.

Kevin Gonzales English 1301: Tues/Thurs: 2-3:30 Professor Clarke Friday Night Lights Across our beloved nation, it is strikingly evident there are a numerous amount of stereotypes that we can never seem to rid of, which is tremendously emphasized through daily television watching. In my own personal opinion, one of the truly heart pounding and influential series to be displayed on television was the Friday Night Lights series; a show mainly focuses on a small town, dead center in the heart of Texas. The small town, Odessa, relies heavily and whole-heartedly on the high school football team, Odessa-Permian. As odd as it may seem, this show doesn’t only focus on football, but also displays the lives of the people that surround the football

We have all seen them in TV shows, movies, and music videos from the day. Greasers were heavily stereotyped gang members in the 40s and 50s that were known for their greased hair, switchblades, and leather jackets. How many of those are inaccurate, for greasers are not the only group that have been wrongfully stereotyped. One fictional greaser that has been stereotyped is Ponyboy, the fourteen year old narrator and main character of the popular novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Ponyboy is wrongfully stereotyped to be dumb, rough, and a criminal as are the rest of the greasers.

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

The movie Mean Girls is rated PG-13. It was published in 2004 and is a teen and comedy film. Mean Girls is about a teenage girl named Cady who was homeschooled in Africa and recently moves to Illinois. She decides to go to highschool and becomes a part of a group of girls called the “mean girls”. They are a popular group who tend to fit their name.

“Mean girls, jocks, band nerds, geeks, and freaks” are all terms used to stereotype and group teens in the 2004 movie hit, Mean Girls. This film created controversies in the content that it delivered. The credibility of adolescents is questioned greatly in this film. Mean Girls taught us that popularity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, in fact, they taught us that it’s actually meaningless. Through extreme character development, this movie shows the viewer that at the end of the day, all of the teens are the same. They all struggle to fit in, and that’s really the moral of this hilarious, but raunchy story. Mean Girls captures the struggle that every teen seems to have at some point of where they belong and how they relate to everyone around them. The film takes those stereotypes and melds them into what all high schools should aspire to be: a community.

The film gives popular girls a false stereotype. It depicts popular teenage girls as being vicious and vindictive bullies. They make it look as if no one else can be a bully.

Modern media has a massive audience with more than 115 million American household families owning a television (NewsWire). Everyday viewers devote time to watching programs and are intrigued by the attractive actors and the situations they encounter. Although these characters and their lives seem to be unbelievably attractive, many of the shows have stereotypical gender qualities. Regina George in Mean Girls frequently portrays qualities that are often seen as ideal ways for women to live, though a closer look reveals the limitations with these ideas.

Mean Girls (2004), is a humourist teen film that is well known throughout the younger generations and is often quoted in the media. This film captures the lives of four teenage girls throughout their junior year of high school, targeting younger viewers who are in high school or soon to be in high school, who might look up to these girls as a role models or use this film for advice however, Mean Girls displays a lot of stereotypical and feminist behaviours about social class and social status, power and control and body image of high school teenagers which sets a poor example for young teens.

In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the main character, Ponyboy, experiences the effect that stereotypes have on “Socs” and “Greasers”. Ponyboy is trying to find his place in the world, but is interrupted by the labels that society gives him. The Socs make the Greasers’ situation worse,by being a constant danger to the Greasers. There are three topics addressed in the powerful novel. The fight between the rich and the poor, the power of friendship, and what it means to be a hero.

Wet Hot American Summer, a classic movie made in the early 2000s unveils many sociological genres throughout the movie. Some of the most profound topics include culture, social groups, sex and identity, stereotypes, and violation of social normalities. In the movie, it is very easy to acknowledge that these topics are either talked about, shown, or what you can generalize about the movie. First discussing culture, in the very beginning of the movie, the campers are in their bunks and you see tons of young girls crowding around a bathroom mirror putting on makeup so they can impress the boys at the camp. Another example is when the camp leader, Beth, asks one of the counselors, Katie, “how to be hot and impress someone.”

In the movie Mean girls Cady at first was a really shy nice girl who was experiencing public schooling for the first time. She did not know what to expect as she walked the hallways of high school. In school Cady experienced some social influence while spying and/or hanging out with the plastics. An example where this is shown is when Gretchen was laying down the rules of "girl world" she was explaining that wearing certain types of clothing like "not wearing the same tank top more than once a week, and only wearing jeans on Fridays" . This type of social influence was shown indirectly because she based her decision on following these steps of roles for the sake of fitting in with others. Visual media is a type of social influence that kids of today go through in this time and age. Things like TV shows, Reality shows, Instagram, books, magazines

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.