Queen Bees and Wannabes

television, in the movies. Cliques are anywhere and everywhere. A main example of cliques is in the movie Mean Girls, Northshore High School (the school in which the movie is set ) has cliques everywhere. The main character, Cady, is invited to join the Plastics. The Plastics is the group of the most popular girls in school. They are the girls everyone wants to be. Their leader Regina George is ruthless. She is the stereotypical blonde, skinny, pretty, prom queen girl. In the beginning of the movie Cady befriends another clique, who is considered on the bottom of the high school food chain, before being asked to join the Plastics. Cady turns on her original friends while in the Plastics and almost loses their friendship which is one that would last post high school. Cady learns throughout the movie that cliques destroy friendships. Regina and another girl from the other clique were friends before high school, but they went their separate ways and began to hate each other. In the end of the movie Cady wins Spring Fling queen and gives a speech about how everyone is pretty and how they shouldn’t be divided by cliques and so on. In the last scene of the movie it shows everyone getting along and the cliques, including the Plastics, have dissolved. Cliques can destroy people. They can destroy personalities and friendships. Each clique is labeled into certain categories. The media is constantly fueling the idea of cliques in movies and in television shows.People let themselves…

In Rosalind Wiseman’s essay “Queen Bee and Her Court”, she specified various roles played in social cliques. In the essay, she states “cliques are sophisticated, complex, and multilayered, and every girl has a role within them.” This demonstrates that although it may seem cliques are very simple, they are actually very conglomerate. In social cliques there are positive and negative roles that a person can have. The sidekick is a negative role; whereas, the floater is a positive role. There are…

When someone blurts out the word “high school”, what’s your first initial thought? I don’t know about you, but “cliques” are the first thought to my mind. The media is drowning in films that portray the idea of “cliques”, but personally, I believe the film Mean Girls is the best representation of the world of cliques. Means Girls is a teen classic, and I can almost bet the majority of my generation has seen or at least heard of it. It is American teen comedy film that manifests the harsh…

being friends with the Plastics. Although Mean Girls is over dramatic and embellished, it does shed light on issues many high schoolers face while trying to grow up and find their self. Mean Girls is a lighthearted film that brings joy and laughter to the viewer. The film also brings up important communication issues and struggles that many face in their lifetime. I chose this film because Cady Heron ultimately does what every high schooler dreams of doing, discovering who they are. Analysis:…

I went back and forth between the different courses offered by the Teachers Learning Center before choosing Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman. I am very happy with my decision as I found the book both interesting and applicable to the subject matter I cover as a Health Education Teacher. Wiseman covered concepts pertaining to Mental and Emotion Health, Communication/ Conflict Management, Family Life and Human Sexuality, and Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs; all of which are part of…

Peer pressure and bullying are very prominent problems with teenagers today. Peer pressure is defined as “social pressure by members of a person’s peer group to take a certain action, adopt certain values, or otherwise conform in order to be accepted. MLA CITATION BRO” Every person plays a certain role within a clique and these roles have attributes specific to them. In Rosalind Wiseman’s “Queen Bee and Her Court,” the author gives readers an in-depth and detailed description of these…

harassed or bullied online” (Warner, 506). She uses this fact to show there are more online harassments and bully cases than the media and news tells us about. Not only does Warner give us the facts about this issue, but she catches our emotions as well. Using pathos, our hearts get pulled in as soon as she tells us the sad story of Megan, “What she didn’t know-what her parents learn six weeks after her death- was that “Josh” was the fictitious creation of Lori Drew” (Warner, 506). Not only is…

Being popular in high school can truly be a struggle. Mean Girls is a teen comedy film loosely based on the self-help book titled Queen Bees and Wannabes. The main character is a high school student named Cady that just moved from Africa and has been homeschooled her whole life. The American culture and society she is introduced to is embodied by the Plastics, who are the most popular girls at North Shore High: Regina, Gretchen, and Karen. Mean Girls criticizes the idea that women can only be…

bullying leads to significant levels of PTSD in so many children. I’ve only heard of PTSD in regards to our brave military folks who come home from the battlefield and it was a shock to hear it in the context of childhood. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a frightening event or ordeal in which physical harm occurred or was threatened (Fisher, 2016). Research now clearly suggests that bullying can cause PTSD. In this last couple of…

Epiphany “When you get bit by a snake, you have to suck out all the poison out of it,” Cady Heron said as she started righting her wrongs in the film, Mean Girls. In this film, we follow the young and naive Cady Heron on her journey throughout her first year of public high school. We start with her first day of public school and follow Cady Heron until she has her epiphany near the end of the film. Mean Girls is an adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman’s book, Queen Bees & Wannabes, by Tina Fey. It…