The classic belief about the teenage girl is that she is cute and bubbly, like the girls on the covers of teen magazines. She is usually visualized as Sandy, from the movie “Grease”, a perky cheerleader with golden blonde locks and a perfect white smile. This classic teenage girl is the captain of her cheerleading squad, student body president, prom queen, and the Charity Donations coordinator. There is not a mean bone in this chick’s body, but mistreat an animal and you will be sure to hear from her. Although she is ditzy when it comes to common sense conversations, she seems to miraculously recover by showing that there truly is something in her pretty little head when it comes to school work.
Sure the sweet and innocent girl was adored in the 50's and 60's, but the newer picture paints the adolescent in a more self-absorbed manner. Though from a far away view this girl may look like the classic one, a closer look will show that her nose is in the air, a pound of makeup is caked on, and fifteen shopping bags from the mall are in her hands. She has two-hundred pairs of shoes and a snotty name such as Claire, Evelyn, or Lauren. Like the classic girl, she wins that glistening crown for prom queen. In fact, it is the event that her oversized head has dreamed of since she was four, the day that she won her first beauty pageant. More often than not, the high maintenance teenager is thought to be anorexic, because, as everybody knows, every teenage girl wants to be “model thin”, and who could think of any better wa...
