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how female youths are introduced - sket opening sequence

In the film sket, the female youth are introduced by being:

• violent, shouting, swearing and spitting - this is showed by the females attacking the male who is laid on the floor at the beginning of the film.
• dominent - beating up the boy on the bus, this shows their power against others
• intimidating and persuasive - beat up boy to protect the girl, but tells her to go and steal
• aggressive - beating up people 
• protecting other women (sister hood) 
• the girl on her own - isolated and alone - no one to talk to which is why she looks up to the other girls on the bus as she has a sense of belonging to a stereotype

issues about youth culture arise:

• confrontation with other youths are older members of society - persuading girl to steal from other man who owns the shop
• violence - beating up people
• stealing - they quoted 'he knows us' therefore this suggests that they steal all the time therefore needs someone else to do it for them. 

the rise of the ladette 
the girls appear to exist without the need of men and are not merely objects of desire; as a unit they initially function effectively taking on qualities and roles often associated with men - protecting (other women), organising (working as a team, planning what their going to do), leading (persuading others), being violent and taking risks (no bothered if they are running the risk of getting into trouble).
The 'masculinisation' of the women seems to make them hard and cold, stripping them of their femininity.

By the females acting like this makes society aware of them and them being people they don't want to run into incase anything happens to them. Also they are making themselves look like criminals in the society eyes therefore people are trying to make them not fit in with society and not be a member of society.

issues of identity
Judith Butler argues that identity is a performance
Michel Foucault argues that identity 'it is a shifting, temporary construction'

I agree with both Judith and Michel, because i feel like in this film the females have to use their voice and their actings to perform to show themselves to society of who they are therefore they are performing to make themselves herd of within society even though it may be for the wrong reasons.
However I do feel like their actions are only temporary as in real life the way people act and behave often changes from time to time therefore I do believe that they will change and improve on their behaviour.

UK Riots 2011 article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024486/UK-RIOTS-2011-British-youths-unpleasant-violent-world.html

This article represents the British Youth in a negative way, this is because the article only refers to the London riots back in 2011, which only a small number of the british youth took part in. the writer uses phrases such as 'not well-educated rioters' which is very biased as not all the rioters and youth are uneducated. Also the writer has is a retired man, therefore doesn't know how the British youth are now, therefore just implies that if one youth acts up then they are all going to act up in the same way. he then goes on to saying 'the most unpleasant and violent in the world' even though he was no evidence or statistics to back is opinions up. In my opinion, the media only focuses on the things that will make a headline, these are usually the negative headline as they know they will sell. therefore if a youth does something good then it won't get written about because the British youth stereotype is 'knife-weildering children' just like what the article states.

what is collective identity

collective identity is the shared sense of belonging to a group. It is conceptualised as individuals’ identifications of, identifications with, or attachment to certain groups.

there are many groups of identity, these include:

mainstream:

• townies
• chavs
• fan girls
• chavers
• boy racers
• sports junkies

leading edge

• creatives
• indie scenesters
• tumblr kids
• hipsters
• DIYers

urban

• stylers
• get paid crew
• trackies

alternative

• nerds
• real gamers
• hardcore
• emos
• scene kids
• young alts
• skaters

aspirant

• trendies 
• rahs
• new casuals

The Youth Culture - The past and the present

In the past the media has described the youth as being disobedient, negative and ill-mannered. This could be because they were, however not the present media have changed slightly about the youth, however are still very similar to the past. The media now describe the youth as being dominating and horrible. Although a lot of the opinions are roughly the same from the past and the present's media, the present's media now accept their behaviour as the majority of the youth are all stereotyped as the same and act in a sheepish way by copying everyone else to get noticed and act up to their stereotyped group, just like in the London Riots in 2011.  

Definitions

representation - the action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so   represented.
                       - the description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way.
                       - it is about the selection (tv only shows certain clips), the relationship (between people, groups, places or events in the world. between whats showed on the TV and on reality) and the process (by which the representation is made)

ideology - a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
               - the science of ideas; the study of their own origin and nature.

hegemony - the way people in power dominate others and stay in power.
                  - the leadership or dominance, specially by one especially by one state or social group ovr others.