In every clique, each girl has a specific role that they play. Some of the roles can be good; however, some can also be very bad. There is always a girl that gives positive peer pressure, one that gives negative peer pressure, and one that bullies. In Rosalind Wiseman’s story “Queen Bee and Her Court,” she describes the roles these girls play and how they act around their peers. Though not all are bad, the floater, sidekick, and queen bee all play roles in either peer pressure or bullying. Positive peer pressure is when a peer encourages good behavior rather than poor behavior. The floater is an example of a person that would give somebody positive peer pressure. She is friends with more than one type of person or group of people. She’s not exclusively tied to one group of friends; she may have a jock group she …show more content…
The Queen Bee is the master of manipulation and control. The one person that she gives negative peer pressure the most to is her best friend, the Sidekick. She will pressure the Sidekick to do the dirty work that she does not want to do. When people think of who the bully is, they normally think of the Sidekick because she is always physically doing the bullying. However, while the Queen Bee usually only gives negative peer pressure, she too can bully in a certain way. If the Sidekick says no or does not feel comfortable doing it, the Queen Bee can take away her position and find someone new. However, she pressures not only the Sidekick, but basically everyone that she comes into contact with. Most people feel that the opinion the Queen Bee has on them matters greatly. Therefore, they too will fall into the peer pressure that she brings upon them. One example is of the Banker, otherwise known as the girl that knows everything. The Queen Bee will pressure her with the fact that she can take her out of the group to receive information about somebody or
Women pageant queens think they are supposed to represent the ideal of female beauty. The tomboy is especially associated with childhood and is defined by the girlhood performance of masculinity. As Michele Abate noted, “The traits most Americans are likely to name as constitutive of this code of tomboy conduct include proclivity for outdoor play (especially athletics), a feisty independent spirit, and a tendency to don masculine clothing and adopt a boyish nickname” (Abate). What does it mean to be a boy in children’s literature and the kind of varieties of boys that are represented? J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series typically features a social, educational, and physical dangers of school life that provide opportunities for adventure, mischief, and exploration. This collection of experiences allows boys to enact traditional forms of boyhood while practicing many of adult men’s culture and the ability to plan out schemes. Not all boys in children’s literature fit these conventional models of the physically robust athlete, hearty survivalist, or mischievous bad boy. Children’s literature also includes boys such as Laure in Little Women, who are described as sensitive, saintly, sickly, or effeminate. The literary and popular texts help understand expectations of boyhood and the insight into contemporary constructions of
Even though many social forces impact Scout in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, gender impacts Scout the greatest. It affects her in how other people treat her. Unexpectedly, Aunt Alexandra shows up at the Finch household, and Scout asks why she had just shown up. Aunt Alexandra replies, “We decided that it would be good for you to have some feminine influence. It won’t be many years, Jean Louise, before you become interested in clothes and boys” (127). After Alexandra says this, Scout becomes puzzled because she does not think she needs a “feminine influence”. But, as she becomes older she is expected to act more lady like. Since she is a girl, she is expected to act prim and proper. Her being raised around men is acting against these stereotypes. Certainly, it is obvious that boys are more daring than girls. So while Jem and Dill want to get a sneak peak inside of Boo Radley’s house, Scout gets a little apprehensive. Jem shouts out, “Scout I’m telling you for the last time shut your trap or go home. I declare to the lord you’re getting more like a girl every day,” (51-52). After Jem said this, she decides she has no option but to join them. She does...
The purpose of writing this article is to highlight the adverse effects of bullying on vulnerable individuals. Hopefully, the light shed here using Phoebe Prince story will put a halt on this vice in our school system. Playing it safe by being well mannered can only get you so far when it comes to avoiding being victimized by bullies.The key to avoid bullying as such is not to learn how to be as invisible as possible, but to learn how to stand up for oneself and have a support network that one can fall upon. The Phoebe Prince story features prominently to help students and parents understand the dynamics behind bullying and how to arrest it so that no individual gets emotionally damaged.
The stereotype commonly associated with bullying is indefinitely the “Queen Bee”. In playing this role, “Queen Bees” gain a sense of power over the other girls within the clique. They enjoy the fact that the others feel as though they must pay homage to them. However, “Queen Bees” lose a real sense of self, and become cynical of their position. Often, they wonder if people only speak to them as a result of their popularity or looks. The simple fact that they feel as though they must routinely exert their power over the others, proves that their actions are spurred from a place of loneliness.When they are able to control others, it proves to them that they are still better than everyone else. This pattern repeats, as they are constantly in need of reassurance, and surround themselves with people who will do so. Often the recipient of the bullying, are the “Targets”. Commonly meek and insecure, they provide the weakness that the “Queen Bees” need to prey upon. For instance, should a “Target” come to school wearing a new pair of shoes that a “Queen Bee” envies, the “Queen Bees” will incessantly call the “Targets” names and make fun of their shoes. This will eventually cause “Targets” to leave or feel so terribly that they will take the shoes off in hopes of the nonsense coming to a stop. This causes “Targets” to feel worthless and unvalued. As one can see, bullying is a terrible form of peer pressure in which both the administrator and recipient suffer negatively
Rachel Simmons was amazed there were so many books regarding aggression in boys, but was unable to find any books on the subject of girls’ aggression. The experiments that were conducted regarding aggression were also only performed using males. Many psychologists considered aggression to be behavior such as hitting, punching, name calling and threatening others as a male issue. Simmons discovered from the many interviews she conducted on women that aggression is just as much a female issue. In her book, “The Odd Girl Out: The hidden culture of aggression in girls”, Simmons interviews many women and girls who were victims of bullying, were the actual bully, and also people who witnessed the abuse. Simmons’ purpose for writing this book was to make everyone aware of the secretive way girls bully each other, and to show how they hide their aggression, which many times is the result of their own struggle for acceptance. This book was effective because Simmons also gives the reader suggestions to help everyone involved in some form of aggressive behavior know how to deal with this behavior, and the lifelong consequences it has on everyone involved.
Prior to the feminist movement of the 1960s, women had to follow strict gender roles. Scout is a prime example of a female child struggling to fit these roles placed upon her by not only males in society, but women too. The moment Aunt Alexandra enters Maycomb, she places it upon herself to mould young Scout and Jem into their societal roles. Scout especially suffers a great deal of criticism and pressure from her Aunt to be the stereotypical girl;
Therefore, the author favors Scout's unique personality and implies women do not have to act in a stereotypical manner. The book might inspire young girls to become independent and create their own unique personalities. To Kill a Mockingbird emerges as an important novel that contradicts female society and suggests that girls should not feel pressure to act in scripted "womanly" roles.
In the 1930s, it was expected to have certain male and female roles. Stereotypically speaking, women were expected to take care of children, wear ladylike clothes, and stay at home and maintain the house. Scout wears clothes that are closely related to those of young boys. “I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing anything that required pants” (Lee 81). Instead of following a woman’s attire, Scout decides to be a woman that wears pants, and makes her own decisions. She chooses to show courage to stand up against social standards by not wearing a dress all the time, and by displaying a very boy like personality. Likewise, Scout defends her older brother Jem as an unknown man attacks them. Women are usually expected to be helpless in such a situation, yet scout uses courage and breaks stereotypes. “He yanked Jem nearly off his feet. ‘ Don’t you touch him!’ I kicked the man swiftly” (Lee 152). Scout is not afraid to attack someone that towers over her, and uses courage to break stereotypes about women. Scout uses her tough personality to prove that girls are more than just characters that stay helpless in a delicate dress, but individuals that are capable of great things. Moreover, Calpurnia, Scout’s respectable cook, sets a good example for Scout and uses courage to show her this. Scout
Scout's narration and the character's dialog prove that Alexandra is characterized by her traditional values while Miss Maudie is characterized as a modern woman. The issues of gender roles are still a large part of society today and it affects a majority of adolescents because they feel the need to conform and ignore their individualism and that is why this novel is still relevant to society today.. The lessoned to be learned here is to be comfortable in one's own skin and don't listen to negative feedback if it is not constructive.
The negative consequences of mean girls’ harsh bullying (depression, suicidal thoughts, and eating disorders) are absent in the movie. Therefore, the viewer will associate bullying with ‘coolness’ as they showcase it when students were asked about Regina Georges, and one of them said “One time she punched me in the face and I loved it”.
One should remember that not all peer pressure is bad, although that is mostly what you see today. Good peer pressure needs to be done more, because why would you want to make someone do something bad, instead of helping them do something good and impacting them, because honestly who would want a worse world rather than a better one? Truly the way to improve our lives as human beings lies on peer pressure, it is at the core of ways we can make a change for a better, and not more for the
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Children also learn about boundaries from other people's games where boundaries develop. Scout's teacher plays the game of a sympathetic southern school teacher. She appears to be the perfect gentle woman, set in tradition and very sympathetic to the less fortunate, such as the Jews in Germany who suffer persecution. She says, "Persecution comes from those who are prejudiced." (To Kill a Mockingbird, p.245). Miss Gates' part also includes the confidence in her higher stature, though she sensibly plays the part down. Many other towns-women also model themselves after the "concerned" character, such as Miss Caroline, Miss Merriweather, and Mrs. Perkins. The women then become parts for children to model themselves after; they become role- models.
Women are still expected to follow rules that society has set for them. Advertisements with unrealistic beauty standards are shown millions of times everyday. Women are still expected to stay at home and cook and clean while men go to work. Scout is a very brave girl who is not afraid to break the rules society has set for her. In every chapter, Scout shows the reader that she is not afraid to be herself.
Peer pressure is when we are influenced to do something we normally wouldn't do because we want to fit in with other people or be accepted by our peers (A peer is someone you look up to like a friend, someone in the community or even someone on TV).