at my school there are quite a few people we call 'plastic' and I was wondering does anyone know how that sterotype came about. I was wondering if was because of the film mean girls, do you have any other ideas?
Plastic is an artificial material that is cheap and easy to come by. Plastic people are fake (ie pretend to be what they're not), cheap and easy. Just like plastic:)
I think it was because of Mean Girls I didn't hear people calling themselves or others as that until that movie but maybe its some sort of Barbie doll reference
Plastic means artificiality or superficiality
plastic was a word coined inthe 60's to describe people who are phoney or artificial.derived from the fact that most useless toys and knicknacks are made out of plastic these days.
I think it really predates that movie. I am OLD and I have heard it being used for a long time. Myself, I prefer the term tupperware to describe them -- been using THAT one since my husband left me in 1978, to describe his new wife!
