History Headscratchers / EasyA

** I thought that people did seem to find the blue devil change to be ridiculous and annoying and Marianne's little club only had a handful of members. If Marianne's parents made a big fuss and threatened to sue then I can see the school folding even if the students aren't on board. And eople didn't really seem to think that Olive was a slut at that point in time. If anything, the attention seemed pretty positive and Olive was enjoying it and making no effort to correct the rumors. Sure, Nina already suggested that she wear an A on her clothes like Hester but not only did Hester also sleep with one guy to earn that reputation but Nina was one of Marianne's followers. It was only after her ''very'' public display with Brandon at a party and subsequent clients that Olive really started to get a reputation as a slut.

* A lot of people complain about the antagonists being over-the-top Christian fundies. It's not something that bugs me because I've met much worse people in real life. But what DOES confuse me is how much power they have. In real life, people who behave like that are often ridiculed by their peers. Said peers won't take anything they say seriously and will just make fun of them behind their backs. But these guys manage to get a school to change their mascot. They convince the entire school that a girl is a slut because she slept with ONE guy. One, it's a high school. Even finding out the "nice girl" lost her virginity shouldn't be a huge deal. Maybe people will gossip for a day, but they'll get over it quickly. Two, like I said, fundie people like these guys aren't usually respected or taken seriously. If you know a person is like that and they say someone is a slut, wouldn't you pretty much know they were over-exagerating?

* Why won't the second guy Olive helped admit what really happened? Yeah, he's getting a lot of action because everything thinks he had sex with Olive but since he now has legitimate experience, what does it matter if the Olive-sex never happened? Is sleeping with her somehow cooler than just having had sex at all? Even though she's supposedly insanely easy?

** I took it as Olive's inexperience in relationships. She honestly thought that the marriage breaking up was worse than him not knowing[[hottip:*:probably forgetting that he might get chlamydia if they ever had sex again...yeah]]. It's the sort of thing that doesn't make sense if you think about it, but Olive wasn't thinking anything but "happy in relationship->my doing something->broken relationship", so blamed the step from point A to point B, her action.

** Definitely. I think perhaps she's a woman worried she's only attractive to her husband now that she's getting older and the fact that Micah (and whomever else) found her attractive was too hard to resist. On a related note, the fact that Mrs Griffith so called accused Oliver of anything was shallow and pathetic. i hated her in that moment

** This Troper got the impression Rhiannon was living vicarious through Olive much like most viewers do. Getting it on with a College boy is cool for her, becoming the school slut was going to far, after all Rhiannon isn't a slut!
** Depends on whose vantage point you're looking at. Olive lied to her, and then wouldn't seriously tell her the truth. Then she started spreading news around about sleeping with other people, and hanging out with different crowds without telling her. Rhiannon went to far, but Olive was a pretty bad friend herself. No one is spotless.

** I took it as Olive's inexperience in relationships. She honestly thought that the marriage breaking up was worse than him not knowing[[hottip*:probably forgetting that he might get chlamydia if they ever had sex again...yeah]]. It's the sort of thing that doesn't make sense if you think about it, but Olive wasn't thinking anything but "happy in relationship->my doing something->broken relationship", so blamed the step from point A to point B, her action.

* The "I feel bad about telling you the truth" bit. I just don't get that at all. I could see how she felt bad for being the one to bring him the bad news, but I seriously don't get why Olive feels bad about telling Mr Griffith about his wife, period.

** Simple: dozens of people were present at Melody Bostick's party to hear Olive and Brandon pretend to have sex, but Brandon told only one person, Evan, what really happened; it's possible that Brandon told a couple of Olive's other clients. Likewise, Olive's clients each would have an incentive to reveal the truth to at most one or two close friends; the deception does them no good if the truth comes out. So a handful of people know the truth, but have no incentive to spread it widely, but the whole school hears the false rumors. Also, it's in the nature of gossip and rumor to produce multiple variations on any given tale, so there were probably multiple wild versions of each story about Olive flying around. Anyone who heard the true version might not necessarily believe it. Consider that Anson hears enough of the truth to know to offer Olive a gift card, but thinks that she'll really have sex with him.

** This Troper got the impression Rhiannon was living vicarious through Olive much like most viewers do. Getting it on with a College boy is cool for her, becoming the school slut was going to far, after all Rhiannon isn't a slut! - NekoLLX

* What really bugs me about the movie is that Olive is beautiful and highly attractive and yet she is unpopular and never even remarked for her beauty, even going as far as no guys ever hitting on her. Normally in high school and college, guys would be all over that.

** Definitely. I think perhaps she's a woman worried she's only attractive to her husband now that she's getting older and the fact that Micah (and whomever else) found her attractive was too hard to resist.

** This American troper didn't get why it was thought of as so bad either. Probably because they didn't want the rating that comes with [[GoshDangItToHeck using a certain synonym for "twat"]] that certainly ''would'' get you sent to the principal's office ...

* What really bugs me about the movie is that Olive is beautiful and highly attractive and yet she is unpopular and never even remarked for her beauty, even going as far as no guys ever hitting on her. Normally in high school and college, guys would be all over that.

* How is it that the fact that Olive fakes sex with people for gift cards gets spread around enough to attract a decent amount of "customers", but not enough to contradict the rumor that she's a slut?

**** Amen to that.