Over the years, social critique has developed due to the fact that females do not have enough equality nor power. Female empowerment has become so universal that it has become sort of a pop culture phenomenon. It is the root for all the other branches that come with it like body-shaming, acceptance and bullying. The comedic movie Mean Girls was released about 13 years ago; however, many themes are still present in today’s society, especially its accurate description of high school. Mean Girls dives right into a world of female social dynamics. This movie is mostly female-centric and not something that guys would normally watch, but it doesn’t necessarily target only females.
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
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