Teen life is often misinterpreted and represented in a stereotypical way within the media. With only nerds playing video games, or blondes being the dumb ones while Asians are the smart ones. These can, more than often, be false and misrepresented. There are multiple things I wish to represent in my magazine on teen life. Including cheerleaders and student leaders.
Almost every, if not all, high schools have some type of cheerleaders for their sports teams. Whether that be football, basketball, etc. They show the rest of the school what true spirit and excitement is. Cheerleaders have been represented in many different film and television series, but most the most iconic way is in Bring It On. This film shows two high school cheerleading teams quest for winning a state championship. The depict cheerleaders from one school, as rude, pretentious, and unintelligent persons. I believe this to be a misrepresentation of this group. Most of the time, they’re approachable and intelligent students. Another group sometimes represented by the media is student leaders. In the film Alex Stranglove, the main character Alex, is the student body president. He is depicted as someone who often, doesn’t like to have any fun. This is a misinterpretation as, like most highschoolers, student leaders want to both encourage the fun and participate in it.
The media often misinterprets teen life in school and makes things sterotypical, although the do occasionally accurately represent a certain type. For example, they often represent cheerleaders as the spirited people on campus, and student leaders as the role models, which is often true. These types of representation characteristics I would retain. A representation I would challenge that the media often portrays is that blondes are dumb. This is often incorrect, blondes can be valedictorians and among the top percentage tiles in their class. Hair color has no correlation to intelligence. This is one of many representation characteristics I would challenge.
