a general culture question

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Americans who don't live in the SF Bay Area:

Do you know what a "valley girl" is? Or, do you know what "valley girl talk" sounds like?


I'm curious, because I was chatting with my mom, and she thinks valley girl is a slang term that's fairly specific to the Santa Clara Valley and the South Bay. I was surprised... I hadn't thought that it might just be a local phrase, and not a more spread out one, because I'd heard it a lot growing up. I could certainly identify a valley girl stereotype in a movie or on tv. Which of course makes me California-centric, I admit, but hey I do live here.

Comments

[spikewriter]

"Valley Girl" refers to denizens of the San Fernando Valley, where I live. Yes, I've shopped at the Sherman Oaks Galleria where the film was shot (before they closed it and renovated it -- haven't been there in ages because it's a bitch to park).

It's a stereotype reinforced by the Zappa song and the films Valley Girl and Fast Times at Ridgemont High and seems to have come to stand for the shallow, slightly stupid and often blonde. Harmony Kendall is definitely a Valley Girl...even as a vampire, which is really scary. Elle Woods in Legally Blonde is not by definition of the fact she comes from Beverly Hills and Daddy is clearly very rich -- Valley Girls wish they were Elle Woods.

Buffy as played by Kristy Swanson is definitely a Valley Girl, fer shure.

[girlwithjournal.livejournal.com]

The first place I ever lived was Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley. So I was born a Valley Girl, something that has given me a wealth of amusement through life. Like, totally!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Harmony definitely qualified.

Its interesting though--- you said is originates in the San Fernanado Valley, and this other person who replied said it was a Southern Cal term. Funny how people tend to assume slang words were invented locally.