Easy A

In class we watched 'Easy A', it was a really good movie and it showed representations of teenage girls really well. the story line was the same as most other teen movies, girl makes mistake and the boy of her dreams flies to her and saves the day but in between that it showed the reality of teenage girls a lot better then other movies such as 'Mean Girls'. There were two main representations of teenage girls (Sluts and Goody Goods) in the film and these were shown through the characters of Olive acted by Emma Stone and Marianne acted by Amanda Bynes. Olive plays an extremely smart girl but also the school slut. she's also seen as someone who helps unpopular male students, by doing this she pretends to have sex with them to help them gain socially.  Marianne on the other hand is complete opposite to Olive, she's a good Christian girl who goes by every rule in the book and will do anything to remove people who aren't. 

Marianne and Olive

(Amanda Bynes and Emma Stone)

In the picture above we see the contrast between the two girls in their costumes, which ultimately shows the two stereotypes of a Slut and a Goody Good. 

In a movie such as Mean Girls, there is a huge difference between the gossip that happens in the two movies. In Mean Girls, gossip in the school only happened between the girls and the boys normally stayed out of it but in Easy A everyone in the school got involved with the rumors and gossip. 

Woman in the 1950's

Woman of the 1950's were stereotyped more as slaves of men rather then people who should be aloud to express their own views and thoughts on things. 1950's was one of the worst time for sexism towards woman. a lot of advertisements produced by the media showed things like woman doing chores such as cooking and cleaning, it also showed men being the 'boss' who gets what ever he wants. The stereotype of a woman was that they would stay at home and do things for men such as cooking and cleaning, if woman didn't live up to these tasks they would be dealt to. An example of this is an this advertisement for coffee: 

Cheese & Sanborn Coffee 1950's Advertisement 

Rules Of Girl World

Girls have a lot of secret rules that sometimes give us bad representations  in the media. the rules of girl world is shown really well in the movie Mean Girls. Regina George, Gretchen Wieners and Karen Smith go by rules everyday.


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxpI9mLvgGY&feature=related

In this clip, Gretchen tells Katy how to dress and which days to dress. we also find that if you break any rules you are excluded from the friendship group. this makes people in society think that all girls are like this. the way that the rules are shown makes teenage girls seem a lot more unreasonable then what we really are. Teenage girls do have a lot of secret rules in their friendships but they are not as over the top as what the rules in Mean Girls are.

The three 'Plastics' wear their normal Wednesday 

outfits of pink clothing 

Stereotypes

What does stereotype mean?
An idea that you have on someone based on what they dress like people who are seen as 'nerds' normally wear glasses and clothing that isn't very 'fashionable'. what they look like people who have dyed their hair black or have black hair that goes over their face are sometimes classed as an 'emo' and people who have blonde hair are classed as a 'dumb blonde'. the things they do in their own time. if you smoked or did drugs you are stereotyped as a 'stoner' or if you go to party's a lot you could be seen as a 'party girl'. The people they hangout with, if you hangout with people who all have black hair and listen to different music are classed as 'emos' if you have a large group of friends who everyone knows and you all do everything together you are seen as the 'populars'

The stereotype for Barbie is 

perfect and beautiful and girly 

Why do we stereotype?
We judge different groups of people because of the things we read about, what we have viewed in movies or on tv, and past experiences. So say we are walking through a park late at night and we are walking past a group of elderly people wearing fur coats and had walking sticks, we may not feel as threatened as if we walked past by three high school-aged boys. Why is this? Because we have made stereotype in each case.

The stereotype for this guy 

would be an Emo because he

dresses in black and has black hair.

Why does the media use stereotypes?
Reporters, writers, producers, directors and editors use stereotypes to group people together.  Stereotypes are useful for the media because they provide a quick identity  that is easily recognized by in society. meaning that the public viewing or reading what the media has produced can relate to it. The media influences the way people view each stereotypical 
group because they have the ability to persuade an individuals view on a group of people. 

A stereotype of this man could be a

terrorist because of the way he looks, the

color he is and the country he lives in.