While watching mean girls you enjoy the humor of all the things the girls do to each other to be popular or liked. The plastics, the popular girl in school, use their looks and their money to get what they want. They don't care how they treat people and who they will hurt along the way. They Say they are friends but they trash each other behind their backs. These three girls are the icons of girl world. When Kadi comes to school she pretends to like them at first but only finds herself turning into one of them by disobeying her parents and hurting her real friends.
In middle school is where it all starts for most girls. The girls have this notion that they have to get in the popular group. The popular group in middle school is the girls that wear the cute clothes and that every boy thinks is cute. All of the girls will try to wear and act like those girls, losing their personalities on the way. But those popular girls always made fun of the ones that were not wearing the cute clothes or ones who were inferior to them. This all just starts drama and causes girls to be mean to each other. People wonder why more girls today are having eating disorders is because of society, but mostly it is the girl world. The pressure we feel from the other girl we go to school with. As middle school progresses these girl problems really never really changed.
When high school hits there not so much as the same drama as in middle school but there’s drama. When you enter high school you get a new crowd new people. Everything that happened in middle school is forgotten for most. The drama now is about boys and if you fit in the right place. Everybody in high school is trying to find what they like to do and how they want to spend their time. So you end up switching groups and people get mad because you just ditched hanging out with them but it is not really that big of a deal. There is a reason for your life to go that way. It may be because though people are more like you or you just want to make new friends somewhere else. But in the end always causes people to talk about you. But the biggest thing people talk about or cause drama for boys and girls dating, liking each other and hanging out. It seems to be a competition for who can get the most guys and what guys like you or who you are dating. This is the biggest thing that causes fights and friend ships to end. Girls will talk about how you look with the guy or how you don’t deserve him. The factor of jealousy plays a huge part in this problem and the only way girls deal with it is trash the girl.
People say mean girls is just a movie well it is based off of the girl world . Every girl goes through it. There is no way to avoid it.
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It is true that most of the clique issues girls experience start in middle school. However, I think it is pop culture and the media that demonstrates and teachs girls this right from the beginning, even before middle school. When you see a movie that takes place in a high school, everyone is automically categorized in groups: the geeks, the jocks, the popular kids, the theatre kids, the bookworms, etc. The whole idea of kids being placed into a group goes way back. You even see examples of how hard it is to date or be friends with someone in a different group. These examples include movies such as Grease, Breakfast Club and Mean Girls. Even Disney is setting the example in their movie, High School Musical, which is shown frequently on TV targeted to younger viewers. This just goes to show you how much of the clique issues experienced by girls in middle and high school have been promoted in the media as normal.
Groups are formed because of what people like to do. There is really no harm in that until someone starts commenting on those other groups because they feel more powerful.
These pressures to be in a certain group are seen in movies. In middle school it really is not the "real world" adult’s deal with everyday. It’s these worlds made up on TV and in our minds. What they put on TV and movies are sorts like obstacles we go through but they are twisted so they get ratings but you don’t know all that when you are younger. You are still shielded from the world. The magazines we read really did not make that big of a difference because they were not gossip and make up magazines. They were more empower girls. But I do agree that movies and TV is where this first starts the girls off. Girls see and they repeat unless they know better that TV is for entertainment only. If you had to pick one place where the root of this drama starts from where would it be movies, magazines, bro/sis…?
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