Representation

Mean girls:
Throughout the whole film there has been a clear use of stereotypes, this is automatically visible by the way they have typical stereotyped teenagers. The teenagers have been set up into cliques in the school such as "nerds, jocks, the popular's and plastics etc", although these groups have been overly exaggerated by the costumes, props and the overall mentality of the characters. 
From analyzing the main character's and their group (the popular's) we can see a clear divide between males and females. For example the women are represented as stuck up, rude, ignorant, bitchy and vain. They are glamorous, skinny (of the perfect size) and seem to be dressed in the correct attire. They are viewed as dumb, judgmental, spoilt and slutty by others but also superior and popular as everyone wants to be liked by them.The clothes they wear in mean girls is very revealing, short, pink and shows a lot of skin in all places. In the picture below you can see they are all wearing very short skirts, high heels, all have their hair down. This shows that they are all the same they wear the same things and there all doing a 'sexy' pose. This message shown through the way these girls dress is that your only going to be pretty and popular if you dress less.


On the other hand the Males are portrayed differently  The popular males known as "The jocks" are all attractive characters, they are athletic, fit, muscular and charming to any girl. The jocks seem to be able to get any girl they want and are always the center of attention between the women. The males don't seem to be so judgmental although they can be seen to use the women for sex and only to get rateings from their friends not for and actual relationship. The males seem to always dress in tight fitting tops to enhance their muscular physique, which is though as appealing to the females. Their hair is always styled neatly and they seem to have perfect facial features. The summary representation of males shows that if they are handsome, charming and sweet talking to girls they will be seen as popular which will be attractive to girls.