Blog Post 2

Within my media portfolio, I want to correctly represent the teenager convention. I feel that teenagers are constantly misrepresented throughout movies, they are always seen with one-sided personalities instead of multi-faceted young adults. This is seen in the Breakfast Club with all the characters leading only one type of lifestyle and spending their time with only one hobby.


In the television show “Freaks and Geeks” the teenager life is shown as the rebellious one where the characters start to disregard what their parents say and depend more on the opinion of their friends to truly learn more about life and its experience. This show depicts a once “nerdy” starts to hang out with the “edgy” kids and starts to skip class and dress a certain way. I feel that teenagers can be rebellious scholars, they can get a 1400 on the sat and sneak out of their house on Friday nights. One-dimensional characters lead to stereotypes which are almost never true about a certain group of people. The Jock is not always perfect, the cheerleader is not always happy, and the wallflower can have the loudest laugh.





I feel that these certain characteristics can be true for some students to relate to in the ’80s through ‘90s where bullying still existed which made the social caste in high school come into play. Many topics before 2010 were still very taboo to talk about publicly in film or television, this meant that mental illness, drug and alcohol consumption, and sex were not allowed to be broadcast allowing for there to be only perfect, innocent high school students.