Look like a girl, talk like a girl or else..

All of you have to remember Janice Ian! Remember,  the unpredictable and odd main characters,  who is interesting to look at to say the least!   Physically, its simple, Janis looks like a guy; she is  always dressed like a guy, she wears lose fitted clothes, her hair is always tied/ clipped back and she does not wear a lot of makeup. In a way she is "unkept" compared to most girls. She is covered up throughout the whole movie while the other girls wear short and relieving clothes an show cleavage.--->

  Her outfits usually consist of baggy pants with the long sleeve shirt and a loose t-shirt over. She can be described as more of a "tomboy", a term used to classify girls who reveal some masculine characteristics.  The majority of the time Janice can is found wearing black, grey or dark blue; she never wears any bright colors or tight fitting clothes that are. Here we see the context and colors that are used to present the audience with Janice persona, are quite masculine.  In comparison,  all the other girls who wore tight clothes, short skirts, had their makeup and hair always done to attract the male attention.  Janice is also the only girl in the movie with black hair, everyone else was either a blonde or a light brunet, suggesting that black hair is attributed to "outcast" status. Sorry to get all serious but its true. When we see dark colors being used to depict this character who is an outtcast and masculine,  representations and constructs attaching darker features to negative attributes might become socialized.


Janice also shows qualities that are usually attributed to a man, in her role as the girl best friend, she is has more power, strength, recklessness and dominance in her realtion ship with Damian (recall he is gay).

 In the story, Regina  tells everyone that Janice was a lesbian,  who was attracted to her an  the rumor is spread around the entire school. Everyone in school believes Janis to be a lesbian, reinforcing her outcast status and later on in the movie she gets called a dyke. To the school dance she wore a blue suit with a white shirt and black bowtie, whereas all the other girls wore dresses. 



Janices' overall demeaner exudes dominante masculine qualities; she doesn't care much for appearances, shows little emotionality and rather than cry or talk about her feelings she immediately has a rude reply to the obnoxious comments made at her. Just take a look!