Teens React to Mean Girls (10th Anniversary)

[methodwriter85]

   In this installment of Teens React, the kids this time around react to the instant classic, Mean Girls, which came out 10 years ago.

 

 

    I think of Mean Girls as the movie the defined the Millennial Generation of people who went to high school in the early/mid-2000's, so I think it's awesome that the movie still feels relevant to the kids of today.

 

     My favorite monologue of the movie is-

 

Janis: Okay, yeah. I've got an apology. So, I have this friend who is a new student this year. And I convinced her that it would be fun to mess up Regina George's life. So I had her pretend to be friends with Regina, and then she would come to my house after and we would just laugh about all the dumb stuff Regina said. And we gave these candy bar things that would make her gain weight, and then we turned her best friends against her. And then... Oh yeah, Cady - you know my friend Cady? She made out with her boyfriend, and we convinced him to break up with her. Oh, God, and we gave her foot cream instead of face wash.

 

God! I am so sorry Regina. Really, I don't know why I did this. I guess it's probably because I've got a big *lesbian* crush on you! Suck on *that*! AY-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI!

[Thorn Wilde]

I never much cared for Mean Girls... Probably because it has a little too much in common with Heathers, a film from the early 90s, which is deeply satirical and much better, but that no one's ever heard of.

 

High school movies in general need to have something special in order for me to like them. I think the last high school movie I liked was 10 Things I Hate About You. Oh, and Struck By Lightning, which is just so much more than a high school movie, I think. Much like Heathers.

[Ieshwar]

Thanks for sharing. I love Mean Girls!! I kept waiting for someone to say "Stop trying to make fetch happen!: Haha

[Y_B]

Cuz I'm a cool mom

[MJ85]

Meanwhile...the actual Damian from this movie comes out as actually gay.

[Thorn Wilde]

Meanwhile...the actual Damian from this movie comes out as actually gay.

 

The bit about not being able to get the kind of roles he would have wanted after playing Damian makes me sad. Shows how far Hollywood has left to go. And, as usual, the comments piss me off... I'll never understand the people who bother to take the time to comment with a 'who cares' sentiment. If you don't care, move on and let the people who do care alone. 

[C J]

I suppose someone decided that this coming out story was interesting so they published it.  Lots of things get published, and whether or not it's interesting is decided by each person reading it.  There's a reason why they allow comments too.  Probably more than one reason.  One I can think of is that people love to comment, and are likely to go where it's allowed.  Another is that it gives the author a better understanding of those who read his articles.  It's also part of a free society.  That requires all comments to be generally accepted regardless of whether anyone else agrees with them or not.  If comments are censored, then what real value do they have?

 

Being free to express your thoughts is a key element in social progress.  It's important to remember that no matter what someone might say, words are just that, words.  They have no more power than that which is given them in the mind of the reader.  They cannot harm you in any way.  If they offend you it's only because you choose to be offended.  Nobody can be a victim of mere words.  Words cannot build or destroy.  The only thing words can do is transfer an idea from one person to another.

 

As for this man's coming out, it's interesting to get an idea of how he viewed the experience.  I don't really care though.  I don't know him, I don't watch or care much about movies and I couldn't care less what anyone thinks about the fact that I like guys.  That's the most important part right there.  I don't care what anyone else thinks about my sexual orientation.  You might ask why that's so important, and the answer is this:  only if I care does coming out become an issue.  Only if I care about what others might think does it become necessary for me to think about "coming out", because my concern about what they might think is what put me "in the closet" in the first place.  Happily, since I do not care what someone else might think about it, I have no interest in the whole "coming out" scenario.  I am already perfectly OK as far as I'm concerned, and for me the issue doesn't even exist.  I am not in or out of the closet.  I am me, totally, and I am free.  It's amazing how many people don't understand this.  They might understand more, if they were less willing to allow others to define their world instead of defining it for themselves.

 

I know it's got something to do with the fear of rejection.  That is the root of this whole "coming out" fallacy, and that's exactly what it is, a huge farce.  Personally, I believe that people who are able to truly think don't need any explanation of what I'm saying.  Those who don't understand probably never will.