Mean Girls - How are young people presented in contemporary media #2

• The start of the trailer (0:26) shows a quick tour of the "school's central nervous system", it's basically all of the school's cliques. This shows how young people judge people on their clique and how people don't speak to other people outside of their clique. 
• In the trailer two of the characters (Gretchen and Cady) at 1:16, they're talking about "cute boys", this could present that young people only care about boys and dating rather than things such as school etc.
• At 1:43 into the trailer you see Regina say "I want to lose 3lb", this presents the idea that all teenage girls/young people are obsessed with looking their best, and losing weight. Which is a negative representation of young people as this isn't true. 
• The fact that there's a clique called "The Plastics" portrays how people think young people can be fake. As plastic is obviously fake and the term "the plastics" is referring to a Barbie doll etc being fake. 
• The main story of the film is about a girl, Cady, who changes since she left Africa and came to an ordinary high school. Through her change and the way the film shows the other pupils at the school it presents the idea that young girls especially go to great extents to be the most popular. This can give the idea that young people are too caught up in their own lives to care about what's going on around them.