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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Smart or Sexy in Mean Girls

In the movie Mean Girls, Lohan's character Cady Heron dumbs herself down in an effort to attract the boy she likes, Aaron. This clip depicts all of the references to math found in the movie, but the parts that are relevant to this class are all in the first five minutes of the clip. When Cady fails to get Aaron to pay attention to her through regular means, she resorts to playing dumb so that Aaron can tutor her. In her mind, she knows the correct answers, and even realizes that Aaron is not a very good teacher, as most of his answers are wrong, but she would rather be perceived as sexy than as smart.

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