The average high school girl is faced with daily problems such as what to wear, how to climb up the social hierarchy, how to get a boy’s attention and how to get your parents to let you go to that party on Friday night. With all this swimming in a girl’s head, the more important things such as grades, homework and family can be easily overlooked. Then you add in an ever so popular show that emphasizes all the things a teenage girl is craving for, and the more important things suddenly just vanish. It doesn’t help that “Gossip Girl” almost never shows the cast inside a classroom or even doing the slightest bit of homework, and “family time” consists of asking daddy dearest for a new credit card. “Gossip Girl” revolves around the group of popular girls who basically own the school. After seeing what power these girls have over their own classmates and even teachers and parents, what girl wouldn’t want to be just like them? The girls from “Gossip Girl” have everything they want at their fingertips, and thus they become the perfect role models.
High school girls begin to watch this show and use it as their handbook to success. They get wrapped up in the dream, having such a fast paced and luxurious lifestyle, that they forget what world they actually live in. Suburban girls start to wear the name brand designer clothes they see on the show, regardless of if their lifestyle can afford them. They see the girls in “Gossip Girl” literally step on and use classmates of a lower social class in order to get to the high status that they are at right now. Watching this, they get ideas and think that this is the right thing to do. Slowly, everything that is seen in the show becomes “cool” and is closely modeled after. Smoking weed, snorting cocaine, having reckless sex with different parents, cheating and lying all become “okay” to do. After all, almost everyone on “Gossip Girl” does it, and they never have to face any consequences or punishments.
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