Mean Girls - pop culture

In the movie Mean Girls it's simple enough to fill the role of the hegemonic ideal. It only takes being a white, upper-class girl, who is skinny, with big boobs, and gorgeous full hair. Who only wears jeans on Fridays, never wears sweat pants, has an enormous wardrobe, and will bow down to the queen bee, unless you are bitchy enough to be the queen bee then you must be able to direct people as you please. Simple enough right?However, each girl has her own flaw that brings her down. The biggest flaw is being in a group that isn't accepted by the popular girls and therefore not conforming to the hegemonic ideal. There are the preps, J.V. jocks, Asian nerds, cool Asians, varsity jocks, unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wannabes, burn outs, or the sexually active band geeks. Each of these groups varies from the hegemonic ideal in their own way some further than other.

George Street, Redfern

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

[Hick Cady, Boston AL (baseball)] (LOC)

Then there are the plastics, the girls who the rest of the school adores. Even these girls have their own flaws.

The plastics consist of three girls, queen bee Regina and her two slaves Karen and Gretchen with a new addition, Cady. They each have their own flaws that they can't see; they also have the physical flaws that they hate. During the scene after school in Regina's bedroom each of the girls picks apart her body discussing the problems of their body. Regina has man shoulders and huge pores, Karen's hips are too large and nail beds suck, and Gretchen has bad calves and a weird hair line. Cady soon learned that there was more than just being fat or skinny. This is how society is now. It is no longer okay just to...