Examples Of Conformity In Mean Girls

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Mean Girls, a modern day staple for great movies also teaches its generation lessons and includes many topics of the Social Psychology area of study. From topics of students in homeschooling to conformity issues of high school people have, you can actually learn a lot about from this movie while applying it to your real life. In the film, one of the main characters, Regina, has a very interesting mother. Her mom identifies herself as a “cool mom.” In Hudson, there are many examples of parents that act like their son or daughter’s best friend. In my experience, parents that are you friend are not really parents at all. I used to have a friend when I was in middle school which was the perfect example of this. Let’s call her Sam. Sam had her …show more content…
The plastics had many rules in order to let you sit with them at lunch. One example was that every wednesday, you must wear pink. If you did not wear pink on a wednesday in the Plastic’s group, you were considered an outcast and you were not permitted to sit with them. Another way there was conformity in mean girls was the way people dressed, according to how Regina George, the main mean girl in the Plastics, dressed. One day, a girl cut two holes in Regina George’s tank top and the next day, all the girls in the school thought it to be a new fashion trend. As she was very popular, her fashion rubbed off on everyone else because most of them worshiped her (in fear of being ridiculed.) In Hudson High School, THere are also examples of conformity throughout. The most obvious ones are the shoes people wear. With the girls, around my freshman year, Birkinstocks came back into the fashion world. Maybe about ten to fifteen girls in my grade had them at that time. Now, I would estimate eighty percent of the junior class and the entire school owns a pair. Another shoe that has become increasingly popular this year are the Adidas Superstars. I remember looking at some of my toddler pictures and there I am wearing those old superstars at six years old. In 2017, it is a staple in almost every girl’s closet to own a pair of Superstars. There is this one group in the junior class of about fifteen girls that owns all of these basic pieces of clothing and it sort of makes them all look the same. Conformity is everywhere you look. My guess to why everyone owns these things is because they want to belong to a bigger crowd and feel like they are apart of something big and they will be liked if they own this
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