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The Evolution of the Smart Girl on Screen

By Vartika Rastogi

We all are familiar with the smart girl trope – think Hermione Granger from Harry Potter or Jo from the more recent movie, Little Women. But the smart girl always depends on her era, what it means to be smart at the time, and what kind of values society holds dear in its women. This women’s day, here’s a lookout for the development of the Smart Girl character in TV and Movies through the ages!

As early as the 1930s, the Smart Girl featured in witball comedies like Theodora Goes Wild (1938) alongside dominant male leads. Here the Smart Girl mirrors the male characters to hold her own, because brains = masculine, and she’s an exception.

[Lobby card of the movie Theodora Goes Wild. Photo Credits: Columbia Pictures]

Enter the 1940s and 50s with Film Noir: Here, the smart woman was the femme fatale as in Double Indemnity (1944), who uses her feminine charms and intelligence to lure men down a dark path, implying that there was something dangerous about smart, assertive women.

Well, ofcourse – this was a time before the Women’s Movement took hold in the US in the 1960s and 70s, when women were still overwhelmingly and conventionally considered secondary and accessory to men. But this is not to say that there were no smart women back in the day. Today’s Smart Girl trope finds some positive ancestors in characters such as Nancy Drew from Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter 1939). Over the years, Nancy Drew was joined by many sharp girl detectives, such as Velma from Scooby Doo (but she was overshadowed by the attractive Daphne – more on that later!)

It was in the 1980s and 90s, after the Women’s Movement for equal rights in America, that the Smart Girl trope rose to popularity as we know it – and it has evolved a lot since then, too!

Smart Girls in the 80s – like Carol from Growing Pains and Jesse from Saved by the Bell – were a response to the 80s teen movies’ glorification of the male nerd character type. Some, like Andie from Pretty in Pink (1986) were both smart and femininely well put-together (pretty – in pink!). However, they were not explicitly valued for their academic prowess. In fact, when The Breakfast Club (1985) dissected the high school class system, the girls were either a princess 

or a basket case 

...while the smart one was a boy. These empowered female characters owned their mental superiority and asserted their academic merit but were almost always clumsy and bespectacled like Velma.

It was in 1989 with the movie Say Anything that a Teen Movie featured a smart girl who was also the conventional romantic lead – behold Valedictorian Diane Court!

But in the 80s, the Smart Girl was still a trope laden with classic trope-yness: from the 80s onwards, as women became more dominant in the workforce. Thus, while career ambition became a staple of the Smart Girl trope in the 80s, it came at a price: the smart girl, like Lisa Simpson from The Simpsons, would almost always be a perfectionist – trying so hard to be perfect that she’d crack under pressure. That’s because women still had to compete fiercely with the men in the workforce, because men had strength in numbers and were  better preferred. Thus, even in 1993, in shows like Boy Meets World, the Smart Girl came with an obsessive competitive streak, which was often plain annoying.

In the 1990s, with the onset of Third Wave Feminism and the Riot Grrrl movement, teens and women were encouraged to advocate for rights over their lives and bodies, and to point put systemic oppression of and prejudice against women. Thus, characters like Daria Morgendorfer came to the fore, who were smart, bookish, cynical, and not afraid of questioning authority and reveling in their smartness. 

The characters around this time also became more multidimensional, not defined merely by their bookishness: while Jane Lane from Daria and Haley from One Tree Hill had a creative streak, characters like Betty Cooper (Riverdale) took on athletic prowess too!

In 2000, Gilmore Girls gave us 2 contrasting types of the Smart Girl trope: the sweet, perfect Rory, who had her mind set on going to Harvard,

 and Paris, with her Type A personality and Straight A record, who would step on anyone and anything to stay on top. 

But slowly also came characters who would accept their occasional fault or defeat and grow into a more self-assure, mature individual – welcome Hermione Granger!

But like Hermione with Cho and Fleur at the Yule Ball, the brainy girl was still in the shadow of the Cool Girl, who was conventionally pretty – every Velma had to have their Daphne! Slowly, from Beauty and Brains being a limiting, either/ or situation for female characters, shows such as Legally Blonde brought out women’s ability to do both to the screen, and with shows like Oceans 8 with its Black Nerd Girl character, the Smart Girl became more diverse.

Finally, with Booksmart (2019)’s Molly, who sees that popular kids are also going to Ivy League Colleges, the Smart Girl’s uniqueness is no longer limited to bookishness, social isolation, romantic unfitness or the like – it has been declared that there is no one size to fit all smart girls!

It can really be said that now, the Smart Girl trope has begun to break out of its trope-yness. Women can truly be themselves – even on screen!

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The new Netflix series, Insatiable, is about a plus size high school student, played by Debby Ryan, named Patty who is bullied about her weight. The girl gets punched in the face and is forced to spend the summer with her jaw wired shut, which ultimately causes her to lose weight and go back to school in the fall looking conventionally attractive to the people who once bullied her. But instead of becoming their friends like they want, she decides to get revenge.

As you can probably tell, many people view this plotline as being extremely problematic. But Debby doesn’t agree with all the fat-shaming backlash and released a lengthy statement defending the series, which premieres on August 10th.

The statement begins QUOTE “As someone who cares deeply about the way our bodies, especially women’s, are shamed and policed in society, I was so excited to work on Insatiable because it’s a show that addresses and confronts those ideas through satire. Satire is a way to poke fun at the hardest things, bring darkness into the light, and enter difficult conversations.”

The former Disney Channel star then went on to talk about her own body image issues and how she appreciated how real Patty’s struggles are.

She continues QUOTE “It was very important to Lauren Gussis, our writer and showrunner from whose brain and heart and life the character of Patty was born, as well as to me, that any scenes where Patty was heavier don’t use her size as a punchline, and never justify the abuse she suffers. The humor is not in the fat-shaming (or thin-shaming, slut-shaming, virgin-shaming, ‘glam-shaming,’ for fans of Arie’s season of the Bachelor…). The redemption is in identifying the bullies and saying ‘this is not okay.’”

Debby explains that the Netflix series is QUOTE “not in the business of fat shaming,” but actually wants to QUOTE “turn a sharp eye on broken, harmful systems that equate thinness with worth.”

Ultimately, Debby says, fans will not be disappointed if they watch the series without any predetermined judgements. Are you planning on giving Insatiable a shot? What do you think of Debby’s response? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below. I’m your host Naz Perez thanks so much for watching Clevver. Thanks for watching! Please Click to the right to watch another new Video and don’t forget to subscribe to our channels.

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