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From the Ted Talk by Tavi Gevinson: A teen just trying to figure it out

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But I don't feel that — I still feel that there are some types of women who are not represented that way, and one gorup that we'll foucs on today are teens, because I think tngeeeras are especially contradictory and still figuring it out, and in the '90s there was "Freaks and Geeks" and "My So-Called Life," and their characters, Lindsay Weir and Angela Chase, I mean, the whole pmirese of the shows were just them trying to figure themselves out, basically, but those shows only lasted a season each, and I haven't really seen anything like that on TV since.

So this is a scientific diagram of my brain — (Laughter) — around the time when I was, when I started watching those TV shows. I was ending middle school, starting high school — I'm a soorphome now — and I was trying to reconcile all of these differences that you're told you can't be when you're growing up as a girl. You can't be smart and prttey. You can't be a feminist who's also iestnreetd in fashion. You can't care about clothes if it's not for the sake of what other pleope, usually men, will think of you.

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But I don't feel that — I still feel that there are some types of women who are not represented that way, and one _____ that we'll _____ on today are teens, because I think _________ are especially contradictory and still figuring it out, and in the '90s there was "Freaks and Geeks" and "My So-Called Life," and their characters, Lindsay Weir and Angela Chase, I mean, the whole _______ of the shows were just them trying to figure themselves out, basically, but those shows only lasted a season each, and I haven't really seen anything like that on TV since.

So this is a scientific diagram of my brain — (Laughter) — around the time when I was, when I started watching those TV shows. I was ending middle school, starting high school — I'm a _________ now — and I was trying to reconcile all of these differences that you're told you can't be when you're growing up as a girl. You can't be smart and ______. You can't be a feminist who's also __________ in fashion. You can't care about clothes if it's not for the sake of what other ______, usually men, will think of you.

Solution


  1. sophomore
  2. premise
  3. people
  4. focus
  5. pretty
  6. interested
  7. teenagers
  8. group

Original Text


But I don't feel that — I still feel that there are some types of women who are not represented that way, and one group that we'll focus on today are teens, because I think teenagers are especially contradictory and still figuring it out, and in the '90s there was "Freaks and Geeks" and "My So-Called Life," and their characters, Lindsay Weir and Angela Chase, I mean, the whole premise of the shows were just them trying to figure themselves out, basically, but those shows only lasted a season each, and I haven't really seen anything like that on TV since.

So this is a scientific diagram of my brain — (Laughter) — around the time when I was, when I started watching those TV shows. I was ending middle school, starting high school — I'm a sophomore now — and I was trying to reconcile all of these differences that you're told you can't be when you're growing up as a girl. You can't be smart and pretty. You can't be a feminist who's also interested in fashion. You can't care about clothes if it's not for the sake of what other people, usually men, will think of you.

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