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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the essay: https://www.thecut.com/article/ashley-tisdale-french-mom-group-mean-girls-parenting.html

Setting aside the celebrity tea here (the friend group in question apparently involved a lot of famous women and it seems like she's inviting drama to be public about it as a result), I found this very thought provoking. I can see it from both sides -- I could see a situation where the behavior she describes is just people kind of naturally sorting into subgroups and was not intentional excluding. On the other hand, I've been unintentionally excluded before and even when you know it's not malicious, it still feels bad. I feel like a big part of the problem is conceiving of yourselves as a group in the first place, and have found it's a lot easier to just think of myself in just a series of 1:1 friendships. Some people I might be close to and hang out with more, and other people perhaps I don't know that well or maybe don't even get along with and we don't hang out. I just try not even to think of myself as being part of a group, even if I might sometimes hang out with multiple people at once. If there is no group, I can never be left out of it.

Curious how other people think of this. [/quote]

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