Does anyone find it weird that Pink, who is the star quarterback of the school, most popular guy, ect. gets along with pretty much everyone in every clique?
Is this a '70s thing, or a small town thing? Because when I was in high school, the star athletes wouldn't be caught dead hanging out with people like Mike, Tony, and Cynthia. If they talked to them at all, it would be to make fun of them or give them a hard time.
People weren't unhealthily tribal back then, like they are now.
shareIn my school we had the typical cliques. I don’t feel like I belonged to any of them. I would sit with the ones considered geeks during lunch cause they accepted me (I was always overweight and shy as well as Alternative). And I got along good with most of the rebel kids (the ones who cut class, smoked in the restroom, etc.). But naturally the popular kids were assholes, the preps (jocks, cheerleaders, honor students). There was a group of kids who were, I guess the B Class. I don’t know how else to put them, average? Well we really didn’t have a drama group. We had plays and stuff but those kids are what I’m referring to, as well as ones who were in choir. While band kids were mixed in with them, unlike with the geeks as I see in movies/shows. Some of the B Class were nice. I referred to myself as an outsider/loner. For the most part I liked it that way lol.
shareThere's definitely people who can play in all the sandboxes. I was definitely Mike/Tony/Cynthia material, and I had classes where I was paired up with a cheerleader and a star hockey player, and they were both nice people and not as dumb as I would have assumed, as well as being sociable after getting to know them.
And there were kids who were the opposite -- most punkers in my school in the early 1980s were constantly getting harassed by the jocks and motorheads, but Kirk, who was as punk rock as anyone, was totally pals with jocks and motorheads and prissy mean girls.
I didn't find it weird, we sort of had those people in my high school. There was the "popular" crowd but the ones at the very top were always nice to everyone. It was the hangers on popular crowd that seemed to be meaner or more self conscious of who they spoke to or regarded to others.
It also seemed that in the later high school years, there was a lot more mingling among the social groups, at least the ones that went to parties.
the funny thing is that Jason London played basically the same person in the Carrie Sequel and was easily the best thing about that movie even though he about 10 years older than the character he was playing!
In this film though, he's stuck with an entire team of Bennys and Banions, and I can't imagine any of the cheerleaders in this taking a freshman under their wing
Not unusual. I was in high school in the 80's and the popular jocks were generally friendly to everyone. It was the hair metal types (heads) that tended to insulate themselves, but even that wasn't too bad.
shareby the way, which one is pink?
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