The Death of the Mean Girl
Mean girl culture is something most of us navigated in high school. We grew up and we got over it. Or did we?
Comedian Tina Fey penned Mean Girls the 2004 movie, a classic comedy poking fun at the real issue of girl-on-girl bullying. The unchecked insecurity of alpha-girl Regina George is unleashed on anyone in her orbit in devastating fashion. And we can all relate.
Tina shared her mean-girl past with Net-a-Porter.com:
I was the mean girl, I admit it openly. That was a disease that had to be conquered. It’s another coping mechanism — it’s a bad coping mechanism — but when you feel less than (in high school, everyone feels less than everyone else for different reasons), in your mind it’s a way of leveling the playing field. Though of course it’s not. Saying something terrible about someone else does not actually level the playing field. If I meet a girl of 14 or 15 today who is that kind of girl, I am secretly, in my body, afraid. Even though I’m 45. — Tina Fey
As kids we are so desperate to fit in. Being singled out, left out, called out was devastating. You needed the right clothes or bag just to blend in. We grew up and moved on, right? Most of us did.
