I'm American and this movie confused me too... Nothing like how people really act at all. It was very silly.
I never knew anybody who reacted to having sex like that.
Sure in high school if a girl starts to get slutty people may talk about it a little.
But would the whole school talk about it?
No, most people would not care unless they knew her or one of the people she got with personally.
Would they stare at her like they did like she was some sort of celebrity?
Never. Seriously, tons of the people in the school should have lost their virginity by then, there is no way they could make that big of a deal about every single person, know about who had sex when, or even care.
Again, unless they were friends with her or something, nobody would care, and she would still have most likely been a nobody except for a few of the creeper guys trying to ask her out.
Would every guy start approaching her and trying to get with her or trying to get her to pretend to?
Never heard of this happening in my life just because somebody lost their virginity.
And I have never seen a group of horrible Christian people get into the business of people who decide to have sex. I didn't even have a group of horrible Christians at all in my high school. There were some prudish Christians, but they would just avoid people who were having sex, in fact they wouldn't even want to talk about it because they thought it was bad. But otherwise they were usually nice, not b*tches.
The majority of Americans are nothing like that from what I've seen, I've never heard of an entire school of people acting like that. Most of the time like 50% of high school students are sexually active at some point, maybe even more than that if you're in poorer areas, they would think it was totally normal and wouldn't care.
In real life even if Olive lied about having sex to her friends AND she started wearing those outfits, most people would still think of her as a nobody, except for those few creepy guys again. And some girls would talk behind her back about it. Or maybe the teachers would try to convince her that it was inappropriate and against the dress code (in my high school there was no specific dress code like skirts of certain length, etc. the only rule was "clothing or lack thereof that is distracting to other students or makes other students uncomfortable in some way is not allow" so if their rules were anything like that she would not be permitted to wear that). But that's about it, really no big deal.
That is probably my least favorite thing about this movie, when I first watched it I was like REALLY!? who reacts to things like that? It was stupid, and incredibly unrealistic. I did think there were a lot of funny parts/lines in the movie which is why I liked it, but as far as the general plot, it wasn't such a good one. A lot of it was lame... but that's how most movies are there days I guess.
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soren7550
12 years ago
Overall, it depends on where in the country you are and the group in question. In a big city, people probably won't care, but in a small town (high school no less) there's probably not a whole lot else to latch onto. After a certain age though, sex gets more taboo.
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b198426
12 years ago
I went to a small school in Alabama. We had elementary through highschool all in one building. Students were sexually active starting in Middle School and nobody thought much about it. I actually lost my virginity in HomeEc class while the other students kept watch for Miss Browning. It was talked about for awhile, but nothing negative. Our student body was probably 100% Christian, but I've never seen any stuck up snobby Christians like the ones in this movie. Everybody just wanted to have fun and finish school.
Anyways, I liked the movie even though it was taken to the tenth power of exaggeration. It's told from her perspective so it's expected that there will be some liberties taken.
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