Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Mean Girls Revisited
While watching the movie "Mean Girls," I found many parts to be humorous. I realized that half of the scenes I was laughing about were true at our school today. There are still girls who will act stupid to get a boy's attention, or girls who will do anything to be popular. In the movie, Caddy, a new student, gets sucked into the world of the "Plastic" life. At first, she joined the group to make fun of the leader, but Caddy ended up becoming fake herself. I have found that many girls at our school try to do anything to become popular, whether it means to change their personalities, leave old friends for popular girls, or to become entirely fake. I thought the scenes were funny in the movie, but to be truthful the scenes were quite desperate. The characters known as the "Plastics" hurt their fellow classmates and teachers by trying to up their status at the school. They made themselves feel better by putting other students down. Girls can be extremely nasty towards one another because they are always in competition with each other. I don't know if this vicious cycle will ever end, but I do know it isn't worth trying to start the cycle. Do people feel that they need to become popular in order to survive their high school years?
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What is popular? Does it mean that a lot of people know who you are, or that a lot of people like you? Or it is just that one "clique". If so, I suppose I would have to know who these people are in our school before I could consider questioning my survival without them.
I always thought that our grade was better then others in the "clique" department. It seems that girls from other groups get along with one another better than girls in the same group. It does seem like we're all in competition with each other, even when it's unnecessary and pointless. Although I think it necessary to be popular in high school, but I do believe that everyone wants to be liked. And the cycle probably wont ever stop.
Many people limit the Plastics deceitful behavior to girls, however, it also applies to guys. Even with guys, their are kids who operate the same way as the Plastics in Mean Girls.
There are groups of guys, in our school, who operate the same way as Regina and her friends operate. One of them (the Regina of the Group) runs his band of ignorant followers the exact same way Regina would, through manipulative, deceitful, and cruel methods.
Quoting a poster that I read a while back, "Popular people are only popular with themselves." This statement is so true, because the people who qualify themselves as "popular" really are not well liked. If you look at our Homecoming Court, there are many girls on there that are genuinely nice and deserved to be nominated. As Shananany Ananany said, are they just well liked or do just a lot of people know who they are?
In every grade and every school there is a "clique" problem, the severity and how many people are in-tuned with it varies by each school. Do I think our school is like North Shore? (Check out #2 at http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=north+shore No, I believe our school is definitely far removed from that. However, we do have a long way to come. Like the group that congregates outside of the media center, what if another group of people started haning out there between classes? Would that be okay? I'm sure it would, i just want to know why it hasn't happened yet? Why is that square foot of tile reserved for those people? Maybe it isn't, but that is just the way I see it.
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