Week 8: Merchants of Cool

Week 8: Merchants of Cool  

The video discuss how teenage boys are “mook” and teenage girls are “midriff”. Boys are into things that are loud, crud, and in your face. Girls are into things are about the body and sexualizing it. In the video, the boys enjoy watching WWE. One of the wrestler talked about the pop that draws in the attention of the young boys. The pop is the “wow” and the unexpected that keeps the teens watching WWE. For teenage girls, they want to be notice. They want to be older than they really are. In the video, a 13-year-old girl is auditioning to be a star. Even though she is 13, she considers herself to be 16-17 years old. The video said that teenage boys act younger than their age while teenage girls act older than their age. I thought this was interesting. When I was in high school I felt like I was more mature than my male classmates. In high school I was more focus on my school work than I was about sex or having a boyfriend. I feel like this can vary between people. I come from a second-generation Asian American point of view so my interest was different than my white friends. In the video, most of the people were white and that is a representation of that group. Someone like me, who has a different background and is limited to media will have a different take on what is “cool”. 

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