Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by another girl. Girl on girl bullying tends to be a big problem in middle school and high school. Although it may not be obvious, girls have a way of making other girls feel self conscious, worthless or even afraid to come to school. Gossiping, leaving others out, or simply putting them down are just a few examples of “girl on girl crime.” Mean girls target other girls they think they are better than based on the clothes they wear or the way they look. Often times girls are even bullied for things they cannot control. Every girl is guilty of this in some form or fashion even if no one seems to notice. Regina George gossips to her friend in the movie, Mean Girls, “I know she 's kind …show more content…
She doesn 't even like you that much,” Gretchen whispers to Cady (Mean Girls). Putting others down by calling names or saying hurtful things causes more problems then one would think. This can cause mental and emotional problems. Saying her hair is an ugly color or her mom is fat are just some examples of very hateful things that can be used to put others down. These are things that she has no control over. When she tries so hard to look pretty and not get made fun of and yet it still happens, this drains self confidence. An article called, “An Approach with Name-calling and Verbal Taunting” says victims of name calling have low status in the friend group. However, this often changes as they grow and mature. The tendency for bullies to harass younger students and embarrass them in public becomes less towards the end of high school, but in the early years, as freshmen and sophomores, the environment can be “very hostile, competitive and non-accepting of social difference” (Lines). A scenario on eduguide.org explains it …show more content…
It is not right for a young girl to come home crying, to be embarrassed to go to school in the only clothes her mom can afford, or even have to sit alone at lunch. The mean girls should get over themselves, close their mouths and realize that they are not any better than the other girls in their class. Victims of “girl on girl crime” should embraces themselves, remember that they are not alone and kill the mean girls with kindness and a smile. Cady Heron, the main character in Mean Girls, stated in the closing scene of the movie, “Calling somebody else fat won 't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn 't make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George 's life definitely didn 't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of
Who holds the key of power in your life? Is there a person or group of people that you are allowing to dictate your life choices? The movie Mean Girls brings to life the everyday peer pressures teenagers deal with. Main character Cady Heron experiences peer pressure for the first time, from multiple classmates. Although it is said that a person can not be persuaded to do or say anything without their consent, is this really true? Cady deals with situations in which she is being pressured from two sides of the spectrum. In the end she realized what was happening to her, but the peer pressure she endured impacted the entire school.
The film Mean Girls is about a young girl, Cady Heron, born and raised in Africa by her zoologist parents, who were also her homeschool teachers for sixteen years. When Cady moves to the United States, she enrolls in a public school for the first time. Here she realizes that high school students have the same hierarchy as the animals she observed in Africa. The lowest ranking group in this high school hierarchy is the outcasts, who also happen to be Cady’s first friends in the U.S. The highest on the high school food chain are the “plastics”. The “plastics”, are the most popular girls in school. The plastic’s notice Cady’s charming personality and stunning good looks and invite her to join their clique. In order to avenge her first friends,
Regina George is a junior in high school who is described as teen royalty. As the leader of her clique referred to as “The Plastics”, she rules the school with her best friends Gretchen Weiners and Karen Smith loyally at her side. The three girls feed off of tearing the other girls in the school down and diminishing them by writing awful rumors and secrets in the “Burn Book”. With her tall and skinny physique, bright blonde hair and good-looks, she uses her sex appeal and superiority to manipulate and victimize the people around her including her family. Regina easily controls her family members. Her mother worships the ground Regina walks on and desperately looks to her for acceptance. Her ability to make other girls at school feel inferior fuels her power, as queen bee Regina is seen as the “it” girl. Everyone wants to look like her, dress like her, and be just like her. She uses her sex appeal to get any guy she wants and dangles them around everyone else to make them jealous.
The movie “Mean Girls” is based on a real story in high school social groups. Cady Heron was a new girl in high school. She has been homeschooled in Africa for her whole life, so she wanted to learn how people in school behave and socialize. It was difficult for Cady to adjust in the new school environment. Initially, Cady had difficulties finding a friend in the school. Her first day in school, she eats her meal in the restroom until she meets Janis and Damien. They encourage Cady to be a friend with one of the most popular group at school called the “Plastic”. Every girl in school envy them and with they would be a member of the group. Regina is the head of the group, and she does anything in her power to get what she wishes, and Gretchen and Karen are her followers. Most of the girls at school are obsessed with the idea of joining Regina’s group because they are royalty in the high school. Since Cady is a pretty girl, the Plastic group was threatened by her and wanted her to join them so that they can control her and the boys who pay attention to Cady. Cady joints them and they will succeed to changer her thoughts and actions. Consequently, she starts acting like them and hide her friendship with Janis and Damien who
In our modern world, sociology has a tremendous impact on our culture, mainly through the processes and decisions we make everyday. For movies and television shows especially, sociological references are incorporated throughout the storyline. A movie which includes many sociological examples is Mean Girls. Mean Girls is a movie based on the life of home-schooled teenage girl, Cady Heron, who moves to the United States from Africa and is placed in a public school for the first time. Cady finds herself in many uncomfortable scenarios and has to deal with the trials and tribulations pertaining to everyday high school issues. Her experiences involve interacting with high school cliques, such as ‘the plastics’, weird high school teachers, relationships,
The movie main character is Cady Heron who is a homeschooled girl. Her and her family lived in Africa for 15 years. They return back to the states and place Cady into a public school for the first time. Cady meets her classmates and finds a few good friends the introduce her to a group of girls called the Plastics. She ends up joining the plastics with the motive of bring them down because her new friend don’t like them very much and thought it would be funny. However, she eventually gets assimilated into the group of three unkind girls and starts to be just like them.
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.
Then in the movie Mean Girls Katy hung out with the plastics and after being with them for a while she started to turn into a plastic and emotionally hurt her friends and then annoyed Aaron, which is the boy she likes. She called her friend Janis a dike and Damian too gay to function and also skipped the art show because she threw a party instead. Her friends ended up driving to her party and were mad that they weren’t invited and Janis said that she was a spitting image of Plastic and she said some bad names to her. Katy was acting innocent, even though she wasn’t. She felt bad after this happened.
The hit teen film, “Mean Girls” effectively portrayed the truth about popularity and high school in a satiric, yet exaggerated manner. “Mean Girls” allows teen girls to see the reality of high school by portraying the hastiness that is Regina George. Teen girls can view how horrible girls are in high school and can possibly change their ways when they’re in high school. The movie covered multiple points discussed in Chapter Two of the textbook through the adventures of “The Plastics.”
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”.
Mean Girls (2004) is a movie that captures the challenging obstacles, excitements, and the letdowns that the adolescents face during high school. Although the movie is greatly exaggerated and does not hold to the true essence of reality, the film portrays the struggles an individual faces during adolescence. The protagonist of the film, Cady Heron, moves into the suburbs after being raised in Africa by her two scientist parents. As Cady is now enrolled into an American high school, she struggles to find her sense of self-identity as she encounters multiple groups of friends and she tries to fit-in by trying to find the status quo of the “American-high-school-way.” The film also emphasizes the development
A young girl leaves her home and right when she walks out the door, she wanted to turn right back around. She knows it will be a bad day. Every day is a bad day. The fragile girl continues on the whole day all while anticipating returning home. At last, the end of the day arrives! She quickly walks out of school with her head down and tries not to bring attention to herself. They spot her and start to stare with a smirk that is so knowing. The comments and names start to roll off their tongues. She begins to walk faster and faster away until she is at a full sprint with tears streaming down her face. This is just one example of many ways verbal bullying happens. People don't understand that it can hurt
The movie that I chose to do my analysis on, is Mean Girls because it is my all-time favorite movie. I watched it a million times, it never gets old and plus I know every single line in the movie. The main character Cady, played by Lindsay Lohan, exhibits how to go from being a nerd, popular, hated and rehabilitated all in one school year. It’s hilarious movie about high school but, it also covers many interpersonal concepts that we learned in class like: verbal communication, conflict and relationship dynamics. Before I provide my analysis, I’ll present my brief summary on the movie Mean Girls.
"Cold, shiny, hard, PLASTIC," said by Janice referring to a group of girls in the movie Mean Girls. Mean Girls is about an innocent, home-schooled girl, Cady who moves from Africa to the United States. Cady thinks she knows all about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when she enters public high school and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teen girls deal with today. Cady goes from a great friend of two "outcasts", Janice and Damien to a superficial friend of the "plastics", a group of girls that talks about everyone behind their back and thinks everyone loves them. Adolescent egocentrism and relationships with peers are obviously present throughout the film. I also noticed self worth in relationships, parenting styles, and juvenile delinquency throughout Mean Girls.
Bullying has been around for decades and yet it is still a reoccurring problem, and it is only getting worse. The National Center for Educational Statistics, in 2009, said nearly 1 in 3 students between the ages of 12 and 18 reported being bullied in school. Eight years earlier, only 14 percent of that population said they had experienced bullying(Ollove,2014). There are two types of bullying the direct form and indirect form, in the direct form the victim receives physical harm example kicking pushing shoving. In the indirect form the victim receives emotional or mental harm by name-calling, rejection, gossip, threats, or insults(Green,2007). It doesn’t matter which way the victim was bullied it still causes