Typical White Girl

Why do we have stereotypes like the “typical white girl?” Most likely because of the movies, TV shows, and books that portray middle to upper class teenage white girls as “basic.” If we did not have entertainment forms depicting all white girls who like Starbucks as typical white girls, I may not have been called a typical white girl by random guys when I got coffee at Beta Convention. I mean, since when was coffee deemed only for teenage white girls? Whatever made someone look at a blonde and say, “She’s stupid,” was probably the same. But what is it? In “High School Musical,” one of the main characters, Sharpay Evans, is portrayed as a typical white girl. She is blonde, skinny, rich, and pampered like a pooch. She stars in every school production with her twin brother, Ryan. Sharpay is also very vicious and will take out anyone who crosses her path. She acts extremely stupid, so everyone thinks she is. That is another way young white girls are shown in media forms, dumb. News flash: not all of us are. Nevertheless, because of Hollywood movies, we are constantly seen as stupid by people around us. Reese Witherspoon stars in the movie, “Legally Blonde,” playing the character Elle Woods. Guess what? She’s blonde… so everyone believes she is dumb! Who

But, she is a teenage white girl, so there’s no way she can do anything but drink coffee and gossip Her mom and “dad” keep it from her for years that her real dad is the head of a school for very intelligent students that Rory will later attend. Rory has to find out for herself through the many clues she gets from her professor, a friend she meets at the school, and her true dad. Rory is devastated that her parents thought she was not capable of handling the information even when she went to a prestigious academy for only the most intelligent teenagers in the whole