Awkward Research Paper

To start off, as a teenager, I entertained the idea of everything I could learn about being in high school and as a freshman in high school I struggled to fit in I relied on the art of media to enlighten me. Awkward was one of the multiple teenage TV series that I entertained watching. Awkward was a MTV series that aired on July 19th 2011. Awkward is comedy series about an unpopular 15-year-old in which gains popularity after she had an accidental suicide attempt. After re watching this series to refresh this show has been given awards such as Teen Choice Award for Choice, TV Breakout Star Male, People’s Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Comedy. After looking at the top 5 main characters my mind I was shocked at all the white people on the
The episode before had a brief rap scene in which out of nowhere African American students appeared. This show clearly does not meet the Bechdel Test for race. After watching more episodes even social class was not outlined. More than half of the characters lived in a gender
The biggest issue that was constantly seen from a girl’s perspective is the issue of boys. All the girl cast had a problem with a boy it was rather if they were too unpopular for the popular boy or too shy to like the boy. This show glorifies boys in the sense that the boys are the typical football players that are always shirtless and say dumb things. I was shocked that the show did play a stereotypical assumption that blond girls are dumb. I found it interesting that the show did touch on sexuality but took it more as a joke. There was Jenna Hamilton’s best friend,

Next, I could legit could count diversity of this show with one of my hands. One, Middle eastern English teacher, two an African American doctor, three the Hispanic cleaning lady, four the side African American cheerleader and the Asian best friend. After watching more episodes the best friend hardly shows up and her excuse is because her Asian parents are strict which also carries yet another
Sex especially non-monotonous sex was very common in this TV series. The “adults” in the series would say sexual puns like “Be a lady in the streets, a freak in the sheets and quiet under the PA system” in which did not stop there. It was obvious that maybe in gender the Bechdel Test flew having both women and men actively except Race, Sexuality and sensitivity towards social issues. Never did the show ever talk about hard hitting stories like the gender gap or how marriage was the only thing the girls in the show were more interested in rather than going to college. When Jenna had an accidental suicide attempt and counselors and the student body made light of a heavy situation in which suicide is one of the highest reason for high school