One of the main characters in Mean Girls is Cady Heron, an outsider …show more content…
She admits to People Magazine that she was Regina George in high school and openly admits that she was the quoted mean girl. In her interview with Karen MizoGuchi from People Magazine, Fey reflects on what prompted her to bully. She states that being the mean girl is “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”(MizoGuchi). She adds that “saying something terrible about someone else does not actually level the playing field”, which in Mean Girls is a common theme through the Burn Book (MizoGuchi). The Burn Book was created by the Plastics to initiate rumors and drama about all of the other students who go to North Shore High School. It deliberately attacks other females and brings them down just to make the Plastics feel better about themselves. None of the Plastics were mentioned in this book besides Regina when she wrote fat after learning that Kalteen Bars were full of carbs and not actually a dietary supplement. At this point, she brought it to the principal’s office and distributed copies of the pages of the books all over the school to purposely let the other students see what was being said about them. It makes the Plastics feel some kind of power that they have the ability to write this stuff about other girls when in reality they should be lifting each other