MCPS inspiration for Mean Girls
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Anonymous
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Apparently, the inspiration for the movie 2004 "Means Girls" was none other than teenagers in MoCo, both private and public schools.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/05/13/the-local-girls-who-inspired-the-hollywood-classic-mean-girls/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR34e3ugd48ujU9t9mLJykwQNjH0J5vOZl6k-PJyWp1kg32UT0RsG4Uz060_aem_AdVd6oogNg1SPm6cbK44fnob41x-ByjyNYK7p0Ed4fDHGBja1DSPHWk-71OhEfx4WgCqcQPG428RyCo7Bg6qCBSK |
Anonymous
It isn't surprising that inspiration for Regina George went on to be HR director for a software company. Seems like a perfect fit. |
Anonymous
| Good article and I think the Regina George inspiration mom sounds like a sweet person. |
Anonymous
| It’s because Montgomery County parents are ruthless and only care about climbing the corporate ladder without regard for other human beings, and teach their children to do the same. Bethesda parents would rather have a mean kid who gets into Michigan than a nice kid. |
Anonymous
They have such low expectations then. Being mean to boast about MI? Will move to Silver Spring instead. |
Anonymous
? does she? She seems kind of clueless. |
Anonymous
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I wonder if these ruthless mean girl parents have pull when it comes
to making teachers lives difficult when they try to grade fairly. |
Anonymous
They may not have pull, but they certainly make teachers lives difficult. They bulldoze and steamroll their way over teachers, administrators, etc to get what they want with no concern or recognition that these are human beings with feelings who are just trying to do their jobs. And they teach their children to have no regard for the feelings of others either. Climb the ladder and win at any cost. |
Anonymous
| The real life Regina George sounds like the kind of person who would defend her daughter's right to exclude people from a birthday party. Just saying. If the shoe fits. |
Anonymous
| MoCo private schools? Well, obvs! |
Anonymous
| I've lived all over the east coast and the people in this area are about as brutal as the well off people in other areas.ypu don't get rich by being nice. |
Anonymous
You’ll fit right in there with low expectations. |
Anonymous
| I'm amazed that someone would admit it was them. If it was me I'd take that story to my grave |
Anonymous
She's the head of HR for a software company. That takes a special breed of human. If slavery were legal, they'd be involved in that. Mean girls are perfect for creating cliques or performing bogus stack ranks. |
Anonymous
When you read the whole story, I don’t think she comes off as bad. This kind of clubby behavior is a little different if you’re not actually the popular girls (which it sounds like she wasn’t). I don’t remember it as much from HS but I remember in MS having all sorts of weird clubby things that we geek girls did—weird names, special songs, inside jokes. In the article, she says it was a phase that she barely remembers. The whole thing might have lasted a month but that happened to be when she was interviewed. I feel like people commenting have missed the point of the article (almost ironically so). The point was that teen girls have really challenging and complicated social interactions but it’s easier for society to just classify them as “mean girls” in a recognizable archetype, even where the truth might be a lot more layered. A lot of the commentators here are doing the same thing. The movie took complicated stories and created a very funny parody by simplifying and exaggerating (which is what comedy does)—the truth is almost always more nuanced. |