I will discuss how Queer theory, Anti-racist Theory, and Radical Feminist Theory is portrayed in the Mean Girls.
Firstly, Queer theory is shown. In the beginning of Mean Girls, we see some people that are home schooled. One boy says, “And on the 3rd day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle; so that man could fight the dinosaurs … and the homosexuals” to which the others return with “Amen”. This is seen as stereotyping southern Americans and home-schooled children. These children have picked up their views from their parents. Southern Americans, stereo-typically, have very strong ideas about homosexuality, and this can be passed down to children. Homosexual stereotypes are a main part of the film, as two of the primary characters are …show more content…
When Cady goes to Regina’s house with “The Plastics”, she finds out that even the prettiest girls find things wrong with their bodies. The girls are obviously beautiful, but while standing in front of a mirror, they criticize their bodies. Regina thinks her pores are huge, Gretchen thinks she has a weird hairline, and Karen thinks her nail beds suck. Sheltered Cady says “I thought there was only fat and skinny, but apparently there are a lot of things that can be wrong with your body.” Teenagers focus on the tiniest things to try to make themselves perfect. Even Regina's mother is insecure about her body- shown through the character's frequent references to her "hard as rocks" breast implants. We can see body image being important when Cady gets popular. When she enters high school, she knows no one, but when she starts conforming and acting like “The Plastics” she then gains more power and eventually reaches the top of the social norm. Cady starts focusing on her body type and what can get her attention by her crush, Aaron. At her house party, Cady is seen wearing a significant amount of makeup and this is when she is becoming the “new” Regina …show more content…
We can gain popularity, attention, a cute guy, and stay out of trouble trying hard to be beautiful. The beauty image is nonrealistic, yet some women conforms to the ideal norm. The movies does show the unpopular, unhot girls dreaming of being beautiful like Regina. This is problematic because they portray the beauty image of a white, skinny, blonde woman. This goes back to what Wendall and Mullin argued about the disabled and beauty image. The ideal image, in our society, shapes the way that people think and glorifies the beauty “norm.” We are shaped to believe that there is a certain type of beauty, we see it on TV and we are framed to believe if you don’t look that way then we not beautiful. This perception can cause people to be uneducated. The ideal beauty image does not just affect disabled women, it effects women of color, women over weight, women who has diseases, like cancer, etc. Most women do not fit into that norm; therefore, we should come up with ways to encourage people that all beauty is beauty, regardless of your physical
Firstly, Queer theory is shown. In the beginning of Mean Girls, we see some people that are home schooled. One boy says, “And on the 3rd day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle; so that man could fight the dinosaurs … and the homosexuals” to which the others return with “Amen”. This is seen as stereotyping southern Americans and home-schooled children. These children have picked up their views from their parents. Southern Americans, stereo-typically, have very strong ideas about homosexuality, and this can be passed down to children. Homosexual stereotypes are a main part of the film, as two of the primary characters are …show more content…
When Cady goes to Regina’s house with “The Plastics”, she finds out that even the prettiest girls find things wrong with their bodies. The girls are obviously beautiful, but while standing in front of a mirror, they criticize their bodies. Regina thinks her pores are huge, Gretchen thinks she has a weird hairline, and Karen thinks her nail beds suck. Sheltered Cady says “I thought there was only fat and skinny, but apparently there are a lot of things that can be wrong with your body.” Teenagers focus on the tiniest things to try to make themselves perfect. Even Regina's mother is insecure about her body- shown through the character's frequent references to her "hard as rocks" breast implants. We can see body image being important when Cady gets popular. When she enters high school, she knows no one, but when she starts conforming and acting like “The Plastics” she then gains more power and eventually reaches the top of the social norm. Cady starts focusing on her body type and what can get her attention by her crush, Aaron. At her house party, Cady is seen wearing a significant amount of makeup and this is when she is becoming the “new” Regina …show more content…
We can gain popularity, attention, a cute guy, and stay out of trouble trying hard to be beautiful. The beauty image is nonrealistic, yet some women conforms to the ideal norm. The movies does show the unpopular, unhot girls dreaming of being beautiful like Regina. This is problematic because they portray the beauty image of a white, skinny, blonde woman. This goes back to what Wendall and Mullin argued about the disabled and beauty image. The ideal image, in our society, shapes the way that people think and glorifies the beauty “norm.” We are shaped to believe that there is a certain type of beauty, we see it on TV and we are framed to believe if you don’t look that way then we not beautiful. This perception can cause people to be uneducated. The ideal beauty image does not just affect disabled women, it effects women of color, women over weight, women who has diseases, like cancer, etc. Most women do not fit into that norm; therefore, we should come up with ways to encourage people that all beauty is beauty, regardless of your physical