It's the 15th anniversary of Mean Girls

[tabloidpersona]

Today marks 15 years since #MeanGirls hit movie theaters! https://t.co/l57Gz25LFm
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) April 30, 2019
The classic teen comedy Mean Girls was released in theaters 15 years ago today

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[pikapika217]

Now that we're far away enough from it I think it's time we acknowledge Tina Fey's weird grudge against hyper feminine girls/characters?

Regina, Jenna, that Maya Rudolph character from 'Sisters' - Her main protagonists constantly are
positioned against these types of girls/women who are all but universally self absorbed, awful and catty people that, by the end, have been taken down several pegs.

LIKE I get it - you're not like those girls but that doesn't make you better than those girls? Not every hyper feminine woman is out to get you specifically.

ETA: ALSO - I want to take a moment to recognize Tina's odd fixation with tearing down the beauty standards of women of color? In Bossy Pants she was all upset about Bey & J.Lo and 'not living up to that' as if it was a personal attack against her when really it undermines how seeing prominent women of color seen as beautiful means a lot to the women of those cultures (we can talk the colorism aspect another time/in a post about ethnic people but that wasn't her viewpoint on it).

[2_on]

I mean, I remember her telling a story about how in high school she would always hate the pretty popular girls and talk shit about them for no reason. She's always seemed like that kind of person.

[pikapika217]

IIRC on 30 rock she went to a high school reunion and found out 'oh, all those pretty/popular girls were trying to actually be nice to me but I was the one pulling away/judging them' which was a good bit of personal growth/nuance before she just made them all bitter & catty and undid it.

Like, you don't have to like the popular thing or find yourself in what mainstream finds acceptable but that also isn't a personality trait? And if she were talking about it from a 'how people express themselves is fine but I worry about the general culture' it would be one thing but that's not where she's coming from

[alienjiive]

It’s funny cause at my high school the popular girls weren’t really mean at all, they were just pretty and fun.

[esearcher]

15 years and fetch still hasn't happened

[moddchicc]

I saw this in theaters Freshman year of high school. I still remember my aunt asking me if it was appropriate for my 10 year old cousin, and I e-mailed her a recap of all the racy parts, LOL

[tucker]

I was also a freshman in high school and a couple of girls at our school made their own little rules to follow like from the movie (on Wednesdays, we wear pink) and then some other girl wrote an article in our little school paper about how she didn't think their rules were funny lol

[eveofrevolution]

[scriptedending]

Gotta confess... I loved 30 Rock, I love teen comedies, but I never really liked Mean Girls.