Beavis and Barbie

Barbie is supposed to represent a typical teenage girl: a girl who is attractive, organized, and tries their best. Beavis is supposed to represent a typical teenage boy: a boy who is sloppy, unorganized, and constantly goofs around. Beavis does just as well as Barbie by doing naturally well on tests, while Barbie does poorly on tests but studies and does all her work. The Idea that many teachers have, that every student is either a Beavis and a Barbie,I woudl say is not even close to true. Not to mention that personally in all of my classes there is usually only a couple studdents that actually completely live out the Barbie and Beavis stereotype. There are many types of students that are different combinations of all these traits that Barbie and Beavis are characterized with. These students are somewhere in the middle of these two distinct stereotypes, or even a type of student that is completely unique. Basically, I would not say these categories of Barbie and Beavis for students are even remotely true, unless there are 100 other "dolls/characters" to represent the other students that make up the remaining 95% of the class.