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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm amazed that someone would admit it was them. If it was me I'd take that story to my grave[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

You sound like a mean girl apologist. Even if it were a parody, there was some truth to it. [/quote]

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