Not realistic

I think it's actually kind of naive to say that just because a girl is pretty, blonde and built well that she can't be subject to bullying and other forms of emotional/verbal abuse. This kind of thing can happen to anyone and a girl that seems pretty perfect to you could have incredibly low self esteem. Also, girls are mean to each other. They just are--especially in high school. They see a girl that's pretty and sweet and, if they're insecure with themselves or are jealous of something about that girl, they'll work to take her down or make her feel less than worthwhile about herself. It's horrible, but it happens all the time. Also, what high school did you go where being called a slut wasn't a bad thing? Girls with a reputation of being sexually active with a lot of guys weren't considered cool or interesting--they were thought of as dirty and gross, at least in my area and in the high schools around me. No one respected the slutty girls. And really, using Easy A as an example of how high school life is these days is kind of silly--and I don't know if you noticed, but her 'reputation' wasn't a good thing for her. She got propositioned constantly because guys thought she was easy, she was shunned by other girls and the adults in her life were generally just disappointed in the way she was behaving. In what way is that a good thing?

Actually, it is realistic. I've seen something very similar happen to a girl who looked similar to her. As the authority figure close to her in age, I helped her deal with it and recover.

I think the point was to show that anyone can be the victim of bullying. At the support group she went to there were people of different sizes, races, and sexual orientation, and they were all there because at some point they have been or still are being bullied. It doesn't matter what you look like, people will attack when they see the smallest crack of insecurity and they will push you just for the fun of it, just to see how far they can go before you start to push back.


If you dont stand for something, you'll fall for anything :/

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Although this is just a movie, and not supposed to be considered realistic, I found it funny that the main character would consider suicide over name calling or even a video implying being fat. The other students overdo the whole inferiority complex stereotype, by just jumping to wild name calling the moment some stimulus comes along. I thought it was all very immature for anyone, even if they were portraying 13 year olds -- pfft! I got through high school okay. I wasn't part of the "cool" gangs, or whatever versions of that we had. But had bullying over cyberspace ever been part of the school culture, then fights would have been a once a day occurrence rather than a once a week/fortnight occurrence.