And the topic of the week is . . . MEAN GIRLS!

So my fellow blogger, Cold Feet Conversation, and I have decided to start weekly discussion posts about a random topic of our choosing. We thought it fitting to start with Mean Girls, our mutual favorite movie. So here it goes . . .

Mean Girls, Mean Girls, what to say about Mean Girls?? Wait! Better question! What ISN'T there to say about Mean Girls?!?!

Easily the most quotable movie of our generation and every gay boy's favoooorite movie. Mean Girls is more than just a movie, it is a symbol of our generation's culture and youth. Every person from every walk of life is represented in this movie, as said by Janie Ian, in the cafeteria you have "your freshmen, ROTC guys, Preps, JV Jocks, Asian Nerds, Cool Asians, Varsity Jocks, Unfriendly Black Hotties, Girls who Eat their Feelings, Girls who don't eat anything, Desperate wannabes, Burnouts, Sexually active band geeks, the greatest people you will ever meet, and . . . the worst".

Although this movie centers around Cady Heron and her inadvertent popularity and spiral down into bitchdom, there is so much more to the film. For instance, the dynamic of the Plastics' social clique, you have Regina, the queen-bee bitch who rules over the other 2 with an iron fist and they just seem to take it. However, in Gretchen and Karen you see two types of loyal subject.

First you have Gretchen, who is always trying to get more and more on Regina's good side and rise from her place as lackey to a more powerful role behind the scenes. But she never wants to outright rule, as seen in the end when she takes on the same position she had in the Plastics, with the cool asians.

Then you have Karen Smith, who is obviously more pretty and nicer than Regina but is simply too stupid to do anything with her natural gifts. A person like Karen flocks to Regina's domineering personality so as to not have to make decisions for herself and not have to think. Regina rules Karen's life and this is how she likes it, but this comes at a price; seen when Regina is talking to Cady on the phone about homecoming queen, "The sad thing is, it should be Karen but everyone forgets about her because she's such a slut". In her stupidity Karen has lost he sense of self-value and it is because of this that she will always need someone more powerful than her to run her life for her.

When you really delve deeper into the world of Mean Girls one can find many hidden meanings and themes and I'm sure I could drone on forever about the greatness that is Mean Girls but for now I shall turn you over to my friend Cold Feet Conversations, so that he can share his view.

Gotta jet!

C.