Glee
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama series that focuses on the high school students that form together and create a choir group called the ‘New Directions’. Throughout the series the students not only experience highs and lows of their choir competitions, but also have to deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues. The students are bullied for being a part of the group, some of which experience a high amount of peer pressure to not join as it could potentially affect their reputations. There is some stereotypical bullying where the students get a slush drink poured over them for being a ‘loser’. They may go through ups and downs with each other but they do all eventually end up in a better place together and also as individuals. Their teacher Will Schuester, also experiences similar problems throughout the series, getting divorced, relationships, but mostly being bullied and constantly teased by his rival teacher Sue Sylvester.
The image above is of the main cast in glee and who are in the choir group 'New Directions'. Just from the image you can see there are a wide range of personalities and looks within the group like for example, the three cheerleaders Quinn, Santana and Brittany, who are classed as attractive and popular along with having that stuck-up attitude to everyone around them. Then there's characters such as Rachel and Kurt who dream of being successful performers in the future ahead of them, but don't particularly have the happiest everyday school experience, occasionally being bullied for who they are. This is where the relation is to the group 'Nerds and Geeks' that I chose to study. Rachel is singled out from everyone else because of the things she wears and how she chooses to be so focused on her future, whereas Kurt is bullied for being gay. These two cases are different but still both very stereotypically done as dressing different or being gay is something people would expect individuals to picked on from.
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama series that focuses on the high school students that form together and create a choir group called the ‘New Directions’. Throughout the series the students not only experience highs and lows of their choir competitions, but also have to deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues. The students are bullied for being a part of the group, some of which experience a high amount of peer pressure to not join as it could potentially affect their reputations. There is some stereotypical bullying where the students get a slush drink poured over them for being a ‘loser’. They may go through ups and downs with each other but they do all eventually end up in a better place together and also as individuals. Their teacher Will Schuester, also experiences similar problems throughout the series, getting divorced, relationships, but mostly being bullied and constantly teased by his rival teacher Sue Sylvester.
The image above is of the main cast in glee and who are in the choir group 'New Directions'. Just from the image you can see there are a wide range of personalities and looks within the group like for example, the three cheerleaders Quinn, Santana and Brittany, who are classed as attractive and popular along with having that stuck-up attitude to everyone around them. Then there's characters such as Rachel and Kurt who dream of being successful performers in the future ahead of them, but don't particularly have the happiest everyday school experience, occasionally being bullied for who they are. This is where the relation is to the group 'Nerds and Geeks' that I chose to study. Rachel is singled out from everyone else because of the things she wears and how she chooses to be so focused on her future, whereas Kurt is bullied for being gay. These two cases are different but still both very stereotypically done as dressing different or being gay is something people would expect individuals to picked on from.
This is a screenshot of the reoccuring stunt that happens to the characters when they supposedly do something wrong in the eyes of the popular students. For example, when Finn decided to quit the football team to be in Glee club, the rest of the football team picked on him as they were annoyed, and clearly felt he was now some sort of loser. This sort of action is obviously an action that involves bullying Pretty much all of glee club eventually experience having a slushie chucked over them.
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