Mean Girls

Cady having makeup and hair done by the "popular girls" .

In this photo it represents the stereotype of the "popular" girls.  When Cady first arrived she wore jeans and plain t-shirts in this picture we see Cady wearing pink, which represents girlie, childish and very feminine.  The girls who accepted Cady into their group are helping her to make the transition by doing her hair and makeup, this is showing us that to be the "popular girl" you have to look a certain way,  which is very girlie and made up with lots of make up.  This is giving older and younger girls the image that if they want to be the "popular girl" they have look and dress a certain way.  This stereotyping and representation does happen in the "real world" e.g  high school, sports, jobs but high school is the main place where it starts because girls are just starting their teen years and want to become more independant  and who doesn't want to be to be well like by everyone!  The problem is that Girls think they have to look like the girls in this photo to be the "popular girl".

Clip from mean girls cafeteria scene.

In this clip from mean girls it represents all of the stereotypical groups, this clip is taken in the cafeteria which  represents where you sit what you eat and usually who your friends are.  It shows the strict seating plan that the cliques sit e.g. Cady has just got her lunch and the popurlar girls (plastics) ask her to sit with them because she looks pretty, straight away Cady's group of freinds are angry at her because she is sitting with a different group of girls who look different.  In this clip it goes through all of the different stereotypical groups off teenage girls such as the girls who eat their feeling's, varsity girls, cheerleaders, mean pretty black girls, ugly nerds, the perfect popular girls and the wannabee popular girls. In the clip it shows clear images of the different cliques this is giving the image of teenage girls that they can only be freinds with one specific group and this is usually the group who looks the same e.g. if you're fat you will only be freinds with the fat girls.  This clip also show's that the pretty popular girls are the "cool, well liked girls" and that everyone wants to be like them this is giving teenage girls around the world the message that you will only ever be freinds with the people who look like and you will never be able to feel well liked and pretty if you are not freinds with the "popular girls".  This is what the film/media industry is creating when doing films they
 build on typical stereotypes and exzagerate them to form opinions about who is good and who is bad.  And when people see a girl or group of friends they judge them on what they look like and relate them back to movies that they have seen and catorgorize them to a specific stereotype.