Empowerment A Two-Way Street A Reaction To Rosalind Wiseman's Girl Cliques
Cliques have to start somewhere. The actuality is that most high school boys and girls are extremely aware of "types," and most fit bits and pieces of several. Yes, there are "popular girls" and "jocks," but the majority exist between these obvious stereotypes; nothing like what we see in the movie Mean Girls, in which all of the students are portrayed as being distinctly defined with one group. Everyone is quick to say there are cliques, and queen bees , and so on and so forth, but few give any recognition to the uniqueness each individual adds making each situation abstractly different. "The Plastics," in Mean Girls, are modeled closely on Rosalind Wiseman's "queen bee," "sidekick" and "messenger," which really are quite generalized stereotypes. Wiseman acts as if she is only trying to help people understand "girl world," but really Wiseman is being a "mean girl" herself by using hasty generalizations such as these.
Are girls meaner than they used to be? I really don't......
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