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Pink Stupid Girls: Representation of teenage girls in the media

What is the representation saying?

The representation is telling the viewer how teenage girls or women in general are not all conformists and are not following the current trends in female hegemony.

Although the current media put loads of emphasis on young girls conforming to the stereotype of "blonde, ditsy, pretty = cool, popular, worthy", Pink's video is challenging this idea and reminding the audience thats not how it is.

  Pink plays different kind of roles like a dancer, a girl attempting to attract the attention of a gym instructor, a girl with purging disorder etc. She also plays the opposite of these given characters like a female president and a girl winning a football game. At the end of the music video, she chooses a football, a computer, dance shoes, books, and a keyboard over set of dolls and a set of make up. The things that she chooses symbolise fitness, education, work, love and leisure, while on the other hand, the things that she leaves symbolise vanity and innocence. This tells the viewer that not all teenage girls or women want to be just like what they see in their everyday lives and that some teenagers still want a normal life instead of being a conformist and living the life of someone else.