Monday, March 2, 2009

"What Truthiness Taught Me About being (Un)Cool" in Red: The Next American Write - Teenage Girls - On What Fires Up Their Lives Today - Sarah Schelde

Summary: Sarah Schelde is 14 and is not your average teenage girl. She is interested in twisted humor by Stephen Colbert and embraces her oddness when compared to other girls her age who watch Laguna Beach and do things that MTV and the magazines think is cool. She knows that this is not it for her life, she will continue her pursuit to go to a good coolege and have job and hopefully one day meet Stephen Colbert.

Connection to Making a Video: Sarah makes an interesting point on how many girls base there life choices on a TV show and magazines created by older women. This would make a good video because you could instead get the perspective of the "outsider" looking in on the "robots" acting as if they were any different from their friends. And instead of have the outsider become one of them but embracing her weirdness and being her not a blond, rich girl from Laguna Beach.

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