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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From OP - we're not obsessed with it. My DD brought it up and I've heard other girls bring it up as well. It is still a thing in school and parents are naive if they think kids have evolved away from this. I wish it wasn't still a thing but it is.[/quote]

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Yep.  The PPs claiming this isn't a "real" thing are either very naïve or don't have kids in middle school yet (or both).  [b]Back in the day when most of us were in school, popular usually referred to the kids who were well-liked, nice to everybody, just generally standouts.[/b]  Nowadays, it doesn't have a very positive connotation.  "Popular" usually refers to the slutty people, to be frank.  Both girls and boys.[/quote]

When was this? When I was in high school, in the 1980s, that's not what "popular" meant. It meant that you were good-looking, wore the latest clothes, had a lot of confidence in yourself (or seemed to), and went to parties where everybody drank. Which, actually, is what it still seems to mean today. The "popular" kids weren't any more well-liked, nice, or outstanding then than they are now.

After one too many times hearing me ask, "Why are they 'popular' if most people don't like them?", my kids have started referring to them as "the cool kids".[/quote]

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