In Mean Girls one
of the first jokes is when Mr. Norbury, Tina Fey, spills her drink on her
shirt, and when she tries to take it off reveals here bra. This to me was like
Tina Fey grabbed me through the movie screen pulled me nose to nose and said, ‘see,
we are over it, this is post feminism. This revealing of the bra is no longer
an objectification of women because Tina Fey is doing it to herself, right? Whatever
it was I it still made me feel uncomfortable. Also, a younger girl of boy would
not know weather it was some evil man or Tina Fey herself revealing her bra. We
talked in class about all the women who take off their own clothing, but is it
really their choice? Aren’t they trying to be noticed in a world where women
who have brains and personality are practically standing still while the half naked
hot woman are plastered with fame and fortune. Perhaps we are not post
feminism. I know when Tina Fey showed off her bra I thought the joke was cred
and plan. No real though was put into this joke, it was silly, stupid, and objectifying.
The male gaze is something that is at work here even though
the movie was written by women. All of the party scenes are great examples of
this. The men dress up in whatever they want but the girls must dress in
lingerie looking costumes. Even at the Cady’s party, the first thing that she
is worried about is looking good. She even says something like, this time I was
not going to be caught in a costume. She is not worried about the fact that she
lied to him about math, or how she plotted to break him up with Regina, she is
not worried about any personality traits at all, just how she looks. At this
point in the film, cady is no longer the innocent girl from Africa and she has
learned that here in the United States what matters is the male gaze. At least
this is what she thinks until Aaron Samuels actually finds her. I am proud of
the movie for really flipping this idea on its head. Once Cady and Aaron
Samuels finally meet up in her room, he is impressed with how she looks but he
quickly learns what she is like on the inside and rejects her and the idea of
the male gaze. It is possible, according to this movie, to overcome the male
gaze and qualify women for who they are and not just what they look like. But
at the same time, as I was watching this movie, I feel like they tried so hard
to make Lindsay Lohan perfectly beautiful. In some scenes it made sense with
the story, but other times I remember thinking, I just want to watch this movie
without Lindsay Lohan trying to seduce me.
How we Treat our Enemies
I wanted to quickly tag on a bit about my big idea for this
class. My question is what does Mean
Girls say about how to treat our enemies? At the very end of Mean Girls, it seems to be saying that
we should all be friends. However, both my wife and I agreed that most of the
movie was sharing the message to do everything in your power to give your enemies
what they deserve. The movie did so some transition from Cady sabotaging Regina
George’s life to feeling sorry for what she did, but I wish that more of the
movie would have been both Cady and Regina turning around for the good.
However, nothing is funny about heartfelt love, and that is why almost the
whole movie is full with girls completely hating on each other. The conclusion
I came to is that even though you feel good at the end they message that sticks
with you is sabotage everyone.
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