Blog 4. Mean Girls & Society.

How the representation affects society's perception of and/or attitude to teenage girls?

Throughout the film Mean Girls, teenage girls are represented through different social classifications of different groups that are made up of people identified as having common characterises, such as the typical 'plastics' in this case also known as the 'Mean Girls' as well as having the 'Asian Nerds' 'desprite wannabies' 'Burn Outs' and so on. The group that includes the 'plastics' is a group where the girls are stated as 'mean' girls, with in this group there is the  'dumb blonde' which is Karen, we were shown this in the scene where Karen says that she can sense when it is going to rain with her breasts which obviously isn’t realistic and therefore is classed as being dumb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0PpEoKHlO0 . The next girl that is in the plastics group is Gretchen Wieners is along with Karen a sidekick to Regina, She is really pretty and comes from a extremely wealthy family. Gretchen comes across very pleased with her social status we get this impression by her saying 'Im sorry that people are so jealous of me... but I can’t help that I’m so popular' then finally is Regina George, whom is the leader of the plastics. She is blonde and said by a fellow student 'evil takes human form in Regina George'. She is the top queen bee at North shore High School. Through the representation of teenage girls that is shown by this group called the plastics would skew society’s perception of teenage girls today immensely. For example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1lZKwggG0c In this scene it first shows Regina and Cady talking over the phone, they are talking about Gretchen and the spring fling, Regina then goes on to call Gretchen not very pretty so therefore she won’t win and also says that Karen is a slut. Within 32 seconds of this scene Regina has said horrible things about her so called friends, Cady then tells Gretchen something that Regina had said then Gretchen goes on to tell Karen something and Karen then lies to Regina about being sick so she can’t go out. This circle of lies represents to society that teenage girls are bitchy and backstabber's which is thought already by society so this is just backing up that theory that they already have. This can cause the consequence of society thinking that all teenage girls are like this and can there for have a negative opinion on them that is not always true, this scene is showing society something that is not exactly reality or in this case just extremely exaggerated as not all teenage girls are back stabber's and so on. These films make people believe that the characters in the films are exactly like reality. This next scene also would affect society’s perception to teenage girls, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbMEhj_hZL0 because of the costume they are wearing and what actions they are doing. The costume that is in the short clip bellow shows allot of skin because they are very little costumes sending off the image that they are confident 'slutty' and love themselves. Due to the outfits that they are wearing this gives an audience the impression of what all teenage girls are like and also the moves that they are doing in this Jingle Bell Christmas song dance are very sexual and probably not appropriate for the audience that were watching them dance this would give off a bad impression to the audience also and could curve society’s stereotype of teenage girls of being stuck up and inappropriate which can cause society to act negatively towards all teenage girls where there is quite a large difference from what the teenage girls are like in ‘Mean Girls’ then to what teenage girls are like in reality.

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