Accepted

The movie “Accepted,” is about a boy named Bartleby who is trying to get into college. He is not getting accepted into any colleges he has applied to so he has his friend Sherman create a fake school online for Bartleby’s dad to be fooled by and believe that this made up college is real. Sherman gets into Harmon College, the one he applied for and wanted to attend. He joined a fraternity there where he dad was a member when he attended school there. Sherman does not fit the fraternity brother look that this fraternity had. They looked like they were all in good shape and were very well groomed. They looked like they had all played sports in one time and could pick up all the ladies. Sherman is a fat kid who is not very social around people he does not know and gets very shy. He was forced to do embarrassing things around campus to prove his elegance to fraternity. I chose this movie because many people can relate to not being in a situation they are not the same type of person as the group they are around and get judged by the people who are all alike.

The selection from the movie I chose about Sherman not fitting in relates to the reading “Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch,” by Dwight McBride. In Look Book Abercrombie & Fitch has it says, “Exhibiting the “A&F Look” us a tremendously important part of the overall experience at the Abercrombie & Fitch Stores.” This is saying that looking like the “A&F look” will bring you the happiness you are pursuing. Like in the movie, Sherman thinks that becoming part of this fraternity it will bring him the happiness of what he wants to get out of becoming a fraternity brother. He wants to be the “cool” kid from what he was at his high school being part of the non-popular group. Also in the article, lawsuits are being brought up for discriminating in its hiring of employees. They won’t hire people, “of color, including Latinos, Asian Americans, and African Americans.” That is picking and choosing who you want to join your company and who you want to be representing it. Sherman was someone they did not want to be representing their fraternity and was therefore no welcomed to become a brother in the fraternity.

This movie is one of my favorite movies. After reading McBride’s article, it made me realize the discrimination that people go through everyday based on looks. People judge others just on their appearance making assumptions of who they are by what they look like.