Mean Girls

Let’s say you had to sit at a lunch table with only the people who look/act like you. There are the sexual active band geeks, cool asians, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don’t eat at all, AV jocks, preps, and the plastics. This move, Mean girls, demonstrates how diverse some students in high school are and the cliques that are made within the high school. This movie demonstrates how the roles of women are mean, preppy, and diverse in so many ways. In the movie, it is first criticized by a girl named Janice and she shows the new student Katy around the school. As she introduces her school, she emphasizes how each girl in the school is reflected, like I said before at the lunch tables.

As the movie is first introduced we meet the main characters, Gretchen, Regina, and Karen who are “the plastics”. These 3 girls basically are shown as they rule the school, their leader Regina gives off that “pretty girls” are the only ones who get the guys and all the people to listen to her. This movie also gives off that only the popular ones are socially okay to thrive in this school. As I watched this film, I recognized that they made one of the plastics, Karen, a “dumb blonde” indicating that blondes are dumb. Which I feel the vibe they give off to the character Karen that they know shes dumb; I’m pretty sure Regina says “God Karen, you’re so stupid!”.

The more I see this film, they put a huge gap between Janice and Regina’s groups of people. Janice and her friend Ian give the new student Katy a sense of detachment against “the plastics”. Janice begins to make fun of “the plastics” by telling Katy they are always at the mall, they have a dress code, a special place sitting in the lunch room, and they get all the guys attention.

Not only does this movie recognize the role of the popular and pretty women, but it discriminates the other women. They show the lesbian, fat, ugly, paralized, athletic, and etc. and how they seem not to matter as much as “the plastics do”. Indicating only the pretty and popular matter in high school.

In the end, as Katy is pronounced as homecoming queen, in her speech she recognizes how each and everyone is individual and special in each and every way. She realizes that the crown isn’t just given to the best of the best, but she gives it away to everyone, breaking it in pieces and throwing it in the crowd to every women that deserved it.