Gossip Girl

                Muahahah, gossip. Gossip Girl, in fact! What a lovely thing we have access to lately. Gossip Girl is a television show that many teenage girls, even young women are becoming addicted to! Nowadays it seems as if everyone is talking about it! Girls even bond over it believe it or not! Why? It is a drama packed show about rich upper east siders. What better way to live vicariously than through rich people and drama?

                While many teenagers say they hat drama and never want to be in it or start it, it is completely false. Everyone likes it in some shape way or form, whether they want to admit it or not. They just don’t like it when it happens to them or people they like. Well, by watching this show you get all the gossip and drama without anyone, including yourself getting hurt! Well, unless you connect to the characters a little too deeply. It is a perfect way to get your fill without feeling bad about it!

                Earlier I talked about how some people bond over it. I myself, (yes I do watch Gossip Girl) have talked to people and built relationships I never thought I would have due to television shows. You can watch a new episode and go to school or work the next day and find yourself talking about what happened in that last episode as well as what you thought about so and so lying about their feelings to their best friend. Oh the juiciness. You can gossip all you want about the television show and never even feel bad about saying a word about anything!

                There are also the friends that have such a great connection that they can sit in the same room and not say a word to each other as they re-watch seasons together and eat their feelings away with things that obviously aren’t healthy for them. But what better to create or strengthen a bond between friends than chilling in sweats and doing other teenage girl like habits?

                So what makes this bonding turn into a label called being a white girl? Well, pretty much everything that has to do with the show in general. Like I said, the show is about the gossip of rich teens which happens to be juicier than the gossip we experience in our lives. This stereotype was brought up by guys of all else. Little do they know, that most of the gossip is about them or started by them and by making a stereotypical name they just add to the gossip and flames already lit.

-Hangin’ from a clothesline