I just watched "Mean Girls"...

[TheOtherVillainess]

And for those of you who have DDs/DSs in HS...do kids today actually ACT that way?

I don't remember it being quite that bad wh en I was in HS a decade ago (oh god I think I just dated myself! ), but then again..I was kind of a loner, an antisocial observer if you will.

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[HomeSweetDisney]

Mean Girls was definately a bit exaggerated but nowadays every highschool has a group of girls like that. I graduated in '04 and my HS had a whole group of Reginas. I found Mean Girls to be amusingly relatable in that way.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I"m sure my HS had girls like that..I just don't remember them acting quite that badly.

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[mommaU4]

I've seen that movie. My kids have too. They like it. I don't remember my high school being that way. (I graduated in 89 by the way) At least not that bad. Maybe it was and I've blocked most of it out. Like childbirth; you forget how bad it was.

I do wonder how things will be for my kids when they get into high school. Sorta makes a good argument for home schooling, huh?

 

[Captain Brain]

I watched that movie last summer. It showed me that teenage girls were mean to each other. Boys always wonder what girls think... Too much information!!

 

[Sparx]

wicked exagerated. sure. tehre are "Those" girls, but no way to that extent.

 

[simba928]

My high school isn't anywhere near that bad. There are the popular, stuck up girls, but for the most part, they don't go around intentionally trying to make everyone else's life a living h***. They generally just keep within their groups. They will talk about others behind their back and give nasty looks, but they don't actively try to make you miserable. I of course saw the movie shortly before I started HS. I was so scared and horrified about HS. That movie only made it worse. It was horrible. Of course, my 1st day was nowhere near as bad as I was convinced it was going to be.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Maybe it was and I've blocked most of it out. Like childbirth; you forget how bad it was.

Maybe that's it. Maybe it didn't seem AS bad to me because I wasn't into the whole clique thing, although I do remember it existing. Band people only hung out with other band people and/or theatre people (because most band people were also theatre people). Ropers and kickers only hung out with other ropers and kickers. Whiggas of both flavors hung out with other whiggas, and so on and so forth.

I didn't really hang out with anyone because I didn't really fit in anywhere back then. But I could tell almost instantly what group somebody belonged to by studying the clothes they wore. Most of the groups wore specific styles/kinds of clothing and ONLY those particular styles/kinds. If you were from another group and tried to wear something out of your group (and it wasn't like a party or a school dress up day) it was kind of against the rules.

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[alliecats]

Ther was a much more "Mean Girls" atmosphere in middle/junior high than in high school, in this neck of the woods anyway.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

See that was my thought too. I remember it being MUCH much worse in the uppergrades of elem and in middle school than it ever was in HS.

But then again..I was actually TRYING to be cool back then. THat was before I realized being 'cool' was way overrated.

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[LeesyUD]

The one thing I remember most from 7th and 8th grade was the "cool click" of girls...that is what they called themselves anyway. They probably did not realize how stupid they were considering that there were 30 girls in our 8th grade classes...there were about 8 of the "cool" girls and the rest were the "non-cool" girls...hmm to me it doesnt seem they are that cool...the numbers were in our favor: 21 girls hanging out together vs 8. The worst part was that they would constantly kick people out of their click and those people would automatically suck up to the rest of us...not being the mean girls that made up the cool click we took them in no questions asked. But of course you had the rare occasion where one of those that had been expelled from the cool click were let back in...ahhh the high and mighty attitude we would receive from them as they left....so silly. I actually remember one of the girls who I really did not like telling me I should come over her house after school to hang out and then laughing in my face. You also had some girls that would secretly hang out with girls from the non cool click which was a big no no in their eyes. Probably the best part of the whole thing was that those snotty girls named THEMSELVES the cool click...they dedicated a song to themselves, the "cool click" at our 8th grade dance. The guys were not as bad...you had some guys that hung around in certain groups but they were all cool with each other. However I do remember on one occasion when one of the "cooler" guys had a b-day party and I was the only one from the "non-cool" click invited, and there were one or two girls that had been in and out of the two clicks...I thought originally everyone from my grade was invited but was suprised to find they weren't. Well it was such a precious moment because the guys that everyone thought were cooler or cuter ignored the "cool click" girls (who tried desperately to get some attention)the whole time and hung out with me and the other 2 "questionable" girls. It was nice to see them realize for even just one moment that they were not "all that". Wow that was long sorry! My point is...there are girls that are like that....mean girls!!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Heh heh heh...that's cool.

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[LeesyUD]

Oh one more quick story...I somehow in 7th grade got stuck at the "cool" table in the lunch room...I guess bc I was friends with one of them...and you had to keep your seat assignments the whole year. Well I tried to ignore them as much as I could...they would sometimes ask if they could have some of my chips or pretzels, etc. and I would share bc I am nice and if it was on of my friends asking I would not have a problem, so I tried to treat them as one of my friends as best as I could. Finally I got so tired of them only being nice to me or one of my friends when they needed something...so I told them to get their own chips or whatever it was they asked for and stop trying to use me...I was so happy for standing up to them...but of course in the end it made me feel worse...all the girls at the lunch table started making fun of me and calling me mean!! It was the first time I ever cried in school and ever let them get to me in that way!

 

[disney50fam]

Yes I own this one....
And I do remmber HS. Being almost as bad.
There was alot of crap going on in my HS.
And sad to say I was part of it. But I was the one being bullied.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I got picked on some,too, mostly for being such a loner dork in my thrift store duds.

But it seemed to just slide right off me because I didn't really care about my social status.

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[Stacerita]

I actually liked "Mean Girls". I thought it was a totally crack up. Of course the movie exaggerated what its like in HS. But to those who are dealing with girls like that it can feel just like it shows in the movie. I knew a lot of kids in HS who could totally identify with many of the characters in the movie.

The movie's screen play was written by Tina Fey ( i think) and based on the book "QueenBees and Wannabes". I wanted to get it for the sweetpea, but couldn't find it. Found it they housed that book in the self help section. I didn't go looking for it because that section of Barnes and Noble frightens me.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I don't blame you,Stace. I worked at BN for a Christmas season a few years back and the self help section had me scared to death with all those freaky titles!

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[PixieDust32]

We watched last year and my girls watched the DVD over and over, they think is funny!