{"id":3137,"date":"2015-01-08T10:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T17:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2015-01-08T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T18:25:24","slug":"on-wednesdays-we-wear-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2015\/01\/08\/on-wednesdays-we-wear-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"On Wednesdays We Wear Pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0195-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3138\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2015\/01\/08\/on-wednesdays-we-wear-pink\/meangirls-0195-copy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0195-copy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4000,6000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1420672665&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;180&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MEANGIRLS-0195 copy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0195-copy-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0195-copy-682x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3138\" alt=\"MEANGIRLS-0195 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0195-copy-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0195-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0195-copy-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry that people are so jealous of me&#8230;but I can&#8217;t help it that I&#8217;m popular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Welcome to our Half-Block course, &#8220;Queen Bees, Wannabees, and Mean Girls,&#8221; taught by self-proclaimed &#8220;Wannabee&#8221; but suspiciously Queen Bee-ish Professor Lisa B. Hughes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0187.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3140\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2015\/01\/08\/on-wednesdays-we-wear-pink\/meangirls-0187\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0187.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"5271,3514\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1420672607&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MEANGIRLS-0187\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0187-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0187-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3140\" alt=\"MEANGIRLS-0187\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0187-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0187-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0187-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You are undoubtably familiar with\u00a0<em>Mean Girls\u00a0<\/em>(2004), or if you&#8217;re not, someone you know is. It enriches our vocabulary, is being made into a musical, and causes me to dig through my house to find something pink for Wednesday. But Tina Fey didn&#8217;t create the first genius mean girl characters; these have been around for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In our first three days, we have compared\u00a0<em>Mean Girls\u00a0<\/em>to Machiavelli&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Prince, <\/em>examined girl power and competition in ancient Greek myths,\u00a0and watched Joan Crawford wreak havoc in\u00a0<em>Queen Bee\u00a0<\/em>(1955).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Think:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Who are some iconic or memorable pop-culture girl groups or duos?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arachne and Athena,<\/li>\n<li>Penelope and Helen,<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Bennett and Miss Caroline Bingley,<\/li>\n<li>The Plastics<\/li>\n<li>Charlie&#8217;s Angels<\/li>\n<li>Lorelai and Rory<\/li>\n<li>Lucy and Ethel&#8230;..the list goes on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How many are all seamless friends? Where do conflicts come from?\u00a0Can girls be friends? Where do the conflicts in\u00a0<em>Mean Girls\u00a0<\/em>come from? How are they solved?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What is Girl World? Who makes the rules?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Those rules are even real. &#8211; They were real that time I wore a vest!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cEating with the plastics was like leaving regular world and entering girl world\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cI know how this could be settled in the animal world, but this was girl world, and in girl world all the fighting had to be sneaky.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Which is better, to bake a cake of rainbow and smiles, or to break the crown and give everyone a piece of it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Is Brutus just as cute as Caesar?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">How has female sexuality been portrayed over the years? How is it alike or different in\u00a0<em>Queen Bee\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Mean Girls<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Are you a Queen Bee, a Wannabee, or a Mean Girl?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;And don&#8217;t be wrong&#8221; (<em>John Tucker Must Die<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0190.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3139\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2015\/01\/08\/on-wednesdays-we-wear-pink\/meangirls-0190\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0190.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"6000,4000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1420672619&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MEANGIRLS-0190\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0190-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0190-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3139 aligncenter\" alt=\"MEANGIRLS-0190\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0190-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0190-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/files\/2015\/01\/MEANGIRLS-0190-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry that people are so jealous of me&#8230;but I can&#8217;t help it that I&#8217;m popular.&#8221; Welcome to our Half-Block course, &#8220;Queen Bees, Wannabees, and Mean Girls,&#8221; taught by self-proclaimed &#8220;Wannabee&#8221; but suspiciously Queen Bee-ish Professor Lisa B. Hughes. You are undoubtably familiar with\u00a0Mean Girls\u00a0(2004), or if you&#8217;re not, someone you know is. It enriches &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2015\/01\/08\/on-wednesdays-we-wear-pink\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Wednesdays We Wear Pink&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co200","category-half-block","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RtXj-OB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}