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Mean Girls

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A teen film praised for authentically capturing the banality, cruelty, and absurdity of American teen life, particularly in the Midwest, as if it could have been written by actual teens.

Mentions (11)
"In the 80s there was John Hughes and Heathers and Fast Times. In the 90s there was American Pie and Clueless and Scream. In the 2000s there was Mean Girls and Easy A and Superbad."
What the Zoomers are really missing: high school movies · u/jrc727 · ↑429 · 2023-06-09
"out of all the teen movies, mean girls is a movie that could have actually been written by teens. The film captures the simultaneous banality, cruelty, and absurdity of American teen life - especially the philistine, unaesthetic nature of the Midwest and America as a whole (see the Kalteen bars)."
mean girls is the exception · u/thedaftbaron · ↑334 · 2024-10-08
"They never actually care about other women, they just seek power and attention and get that through pretending to be a "nice girl". At least actual pick mes are upfront and honest about their shitty behavior.. these type of women try to insert themselves into your daily life by pretending to be "fem"
"Girls support girls" is the biggest BS I've ever seen in a decade · u/Albertsstuff_06 · ↑259 · 2024-05-01
"For example: renee rapp looks like shit in the mean girls musical movie and she's not even ugly irl but something about a cringe remake with forced diversity just comes out hideous"
"Nearly twenty years after the original Mean Girls, in which Lizzie Caplan was casted as the "weirdo" and they made Lindsay Lohan "ugly" by making her wear a polo, Tina Fey at 75 years old is the most attractive woman in the new Mean Girls trailer."
"how is anyone getting bullied by plus size regina? like yeah zoomers body positivity xyz but let's not act as if big girls are ever popular."
new regina george sucks · u/dollveined · ↑172 · 2024-01-30
"I get the anger for Dasha sometimes, but it's starting to get ridiculous dragging Charli into it"
"Watching Mean Girls on VH1. They changed the Asian girl saying 'n***a , please' in Vietnamese during an argument to 'girlfriend, please' in the closed captioning. Completely neutered the joke and not in a 'monkey biting snakes' way."
"And, in any case, women in their social lives are hardly model democrats. On the contrary, women seem to generate pitiless cliques with rueful regularity (chronicled in movies over the seven decades from Stage Door to Mean Girls)."
"The sisterhood myth" Camille Paglia · [deleted] · ↑48 · 2023-01-31
"Mean Girls (2024) casting hits and misses"
Mean Girls (2024) casting hits and misses · u/sadboytwo · ↑29 · 2024-01-23
"However, something clicked for me after watching the movie "Mean Girls" for the time, and I went on a rather extreme diet because I had dreams of being a glamourous popular teen girl."
Stretch Marks Feel Like Cosmic Punishment For Being F4T. · u/iwouldbecomplex1 · ↑25 · 2023-07-13
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