Mean Girls

            Mean Girls came out ten years ago starting on Wednesday. The ‘anniversary’ of Mean Girls is April 30^th and that happens to be this Wednesday (always wear pink on Wednesdays.)Why is Mean Girls still popular and people still make references from this movie if it came out ten years ago?

            So the first to know about Mean Girls is it centers on the cliques of high school like the whole plastics, nerds, potheads, and all those different labels. For about the past month different pictures have been making references to Mean Girls by different rules from the movie like the wearing pink on Wednesdays, only wearing your hair up once a week, and no sweatpants. Also of course Twitter, Tumblr, and all the different social networking sites have been making quotes from the movie that are just hilarious (which I won’t share if your that curious either watch the movie or look it up).

            We come back to the question, why is this movie popular? Well first thing this movie is hilarious it has all the drama in high school, romance, bitchy fake girls, and just the way they talk is humorous, totally talk more valley girl than I do. Another reason that this movie is popular is it like I said in the former sentence it has romance and fighting over who will end up getting the cute guy in the movie, Aaron. The movie portrays some pretty hilarious scenarios/situations of Regina and Cady fighting for Aaron.

            The reason my friends and I seem to like this movie is because though it seems to over exaggerate the situation of cliques and girls being mean it honestly couldn’t be closer to the truth. In high school people get made fun of all the time for their appearance and not how they are as a person. It seems that usually the ‘plastics’ or popular people are so focused on their appearance that nothing else about themselves matter. I feel like that is kind of how it is in high school, so many girls are so focused on their appearance, so they can have that cute guy in their class to notice them. Women totally subject themselves to men and making themselves is what they think guys want and if that means getting a nose job like Regina in Mean Girls than girls will look into it.

            Mean Girls is a comedy, but the movie definitely has truth in the dialogue. Girls (even some guys) talk behind each other’s backs and gossip to try to fit in and it’s kind of just human nature to want to talk about yourself and other people because we all love to compare ourselves to others. I think that’s why Mean Girls is still popular to this day, because there is truth in how girls treat one another and if girls can just open their eyes and not start rumors about others maybe, just maybe, high school wouldn’t seem too bad.