Bratty Teenage Daughter covers a lot of it, Emo Teen would be a subtrope, but I can't find a fitting supertrope for that.
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Teens Are Monsters covers some stuff itself.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I may be being a bit oversensitive here, but this trope seems to suggest that a teenage girl liking boys or fashion at all is unrealistic, bad, or stereotypical.
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I agree; on the one hand, it sounds like teenagers having any interest in the opposite sex, or fashion, or anything along those lines, is bad. On the other hand, it's wrong to assume that because a girl is a teenager, she obsesses over boys (because it's all she thinks about), how she looks, and most importantly, sex! Or for that matter, boys only think about girls, preferably naked, and most importantly, sex! And if said teen lacks interest in such things, (s)he has a serious problem! Not to say that teens don't go through something like this; most of the time, it's true, just not to the extent that fiction portrays it. If girls in real life are into fashion, then Fiction!Teen girls are only into the LATEST FASHIONS! If teen boys have some interest in girls, then Fiction!Teen boys want to do all sorts of perverse things with anything that's female! And if Fiction!Teens in the plot who don't act this way exist, then their freaks of nature. It's not saying that teen girls liking boys and fashion is bad; I like boys and fashion, but I definitely don't act like the girls portrayed in most fiction settings.
I think the real problem is that the trope definition/page refers almost exclusively to females, not males, especially in the first two-thirds of it. Making this more gender neutral and separate from gender stereotyping and cultural stereotyping would clear up a lot of confusion and offense. And no, that doesn't disservice the trope; as it currently stands the trope definition sounds straight out of slightly out-dated pop culture, not a setting/characterization trope about something supposedly universal due to biological factors.
Bring it to Trope Repair Shop, then.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I don't mean to be rude here, but did this go through YKTTW? As it stands there's a fair few problems with this trope. It treats its subject matter far too disapprovingly (Tropes Are Not Bad, and this one in particular is Truth in Television by its very nature), the opening article is very long but doesn't manage to give a clear idea of what the trope is (if it's just "teens getting obsessed with the opposite sex", that's just making believable teenage characters), the completely separate paragraphs for girls and boys muddy the water when it would work perfectly well with one description talking about teenagers in general, the style and the Real Life section I deleted make it look like its someone's Writer on Board issue...etcetera. This could be a workable trope, but it needs a bit of Wiki Magic before it gets there.
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No, this trope page is just rather broken because its definition does not fit the title.
Title: A teenager that is dealing with crazy amounts of/shifts/imbalances of hormones, and thus acts or feels very irrationally (often against the wishes of the teen).
Definition: All teens in this setting are obsessed with sex, the members of the sex they're attracted to, and sexualizing oneself. Because they're teens. Or hormonal. Not sure which.
The Truth in Television about teenagers and hormones is that puberty involves high levels of hormones and changes in hormonal levels and balances. This causes, to varying degrees, differences in psychology, behavior, physical features and appearance, and other physical aspects. It can also cause high sexual drive, though technically speaking sex drives are, on average, highest in the twenties, not teens. A lot of the real problems come from the social pressures, societal/cultural expectations, extremely difficult and paradigm-shifting from childhood into adulthood and dependency into independence, and the resulting psychological difficulties of constant and dramatic change in oneself, both physically, psychologically, and biologically. The hormone part is more significant and pronounced when other factors exacerbate it enormously.
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Would it be an example of this trope when the character becomes moody/aggressive during puberty or does this trope only deal with the sexual aspects?
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