Scary Teen Girl of the New Millennium: Harnessing Her Rage to Reclaim Control??(Scary Teen Series)

In the 2000s & 2010s, the Terrifying Teen Girl - from Jennifer's Body's Jennifer to Mean Girls' Regina George to Thirteen's Tracy & Evie and beyond - started taking back her power in movies and tv by getting to tell her *own* story.
The teen girl had become a rather terrifying force in movies and tv at the end of the 20th century – adults just couldn’t understand what was going on with teens, and so this fearful, outsider perspective informed on screen portrayals. But as the 2000s and 2010s rolled around, the terrifying teen girl on screen began to enter a new, more powerful phase. These stories actually grappled with the harsh, conflicting realities that teen girls have to deal with (and many felt much more real because now they were actually written by people who had, y’know, actually experienced being a teen girl instead of just outside observers. From lack of control to oversexualization to the intricacies of war in Girl World, these teens were constantly being pushed to the edge – but they were always up for the challenge.

Watch the first episode in this series, covering the rise of the Scary Teen Girl on screen in the 1980s and 1990s, here: https://youtu.be/xwunxsUv79E

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:53 Beginning to tell her own story
02:04 Her intensity in life & friendships
03:23 Grittier looks at the dark side of teen girl world
05:53 The fear of her sexuality
06:48 How the 00s/10s girls still sometimes got stuck with gross 80s/90s sexualization
08:29 Their quest to get revenge on the creeps who hurt them
10:23 The rage of being trapped within the pressures of teen girlhood
11:02 Reembracing the occult & witchy power
13:06 How they set the stage for the scary teen girls of the 2020s

The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
This video was written by Ellie Slee, narrated by Charly Bivona, produced by Jessica Babineaux, and edited by Travis Martin

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