every year or so tik tok starts debating who the “real mean girl” was in mean girls and i’m just so baffled by the lack of media comprehension. the point is that they are ALL MEAN GIRLS. Yes! Janis was a mean girl. But so was Regina. All of the girls were mean girls!!! That’s what the gym scene is about, every girl gong up on stage and admitting something horrible they’ve done to another person.
It’s why Cady’s character had to be home schooled and not just transferring from a different school. It had to show you that everyone is capable of being a “mean girl” because high school is kill or be killed. It’s so easy to hurt others in the name of protecting yourself. Even girls who were kind and wanted to be kind succumbed to being a “mean girl” in order to make it through the day.
Mean Girls isn’t about right vs wrong. It’s about hierarchies in high school, it’s about the performance of femininity, it’s about toxic femininity, it’s about expectations and the desire to be accepted.
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I was fully prepared for mean girls 2024 to not be queer at all, just having Damian and Reneé’s lesbian vibes but oh my god
Gretchen??
Karen just being surrounded by girls
The whole Janis and Regina thing + Janis being canonically queer
All the background queer couples
Damian and that guy
This girl’s reaction to Regina being wet with the water
+ Regina keeping the pride pin
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Mean Girls 2024 was MADE for Gen Z like when Damien pulled out the matching Beanie Boo Janis had with Regina and me and my friends audibly gasped
Like Janis's graphic eyeliner and little pearls stuck to her eyelids and cute crochet sweater TELL ME THE WARDROBE DEPARTMENT DIDNT BREAK INTO MY HOME AND COPY MY QUEER ART FREAK OUTFITS
And like idk why but I actually feel like the costumes were representative of teenagers nowadays?? Like sorry I love the og movie but no sixteen year old is going round school with their Louis Vuitton purse, let's be so fr the majority of 'popular' students rn are buying crop tops off of Shein
I feel like Gen Z is never quite represented well in movies but I was talking to the people I watched it with and this movie including a montage in which Highschoolers crawled around the floor like animals actually felt so real for some reason???
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i’ve been thinking about the fact that regina and janis exchanged valentine beanie boos with each other and this was what the tag on the beanie boo said. REJANIS WERE EACH OTHERS VALENTINES!!!! IM FEELING VERY NORMAL ABOUT THIS
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someone needs to write fanfiction about jock regina george because it is canon that she joins lacrosse....... just saying
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Janis Ian the mean punk pierced they/them androgynous lesbian that you are....binder wearing masc dyke, cowards should've let her and Regina date/smooch at the end
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pov ur ex best friend to enemy to ??? to friend to gf tells you she loved you the whole time
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