Teenage Representation In Pop Culture

As a child, I would constantly hear the adults complaining about my teenage cousin; ’Moody’, ‘hormonal’, ‘immature’, these are some of the words they used to describe her. To their credit, she was very much in her own world, with music always blasting through her headphones and her hair badly bleached to make a statement. And it is true, teenagers will always have a bad reputation, just take a look at how we are represented in pop culture: ‘The Breakfast Club’, ‘Rebel Without A Cause’ and ‘Ghost World’ are examples of how we are often portrayed as rebellious, lazy and disrespectful.

A lot of the time, I feel like teenagers are just misunderstood. After all, it is quite a confusing and complicated time in our lives. Especially with puberty