I saw Mean Girls. It seemed really unrealistic to me. Yes, I did go to public school, but I really had no part in any of the drama. I'm sure it was happening, but I was so clueless and naive that I didn't see it happening. Also, it's possible that the fact that I was not a contender kept me out of the drama of our circles. Right now, at work, I'm a third party participant. I have clients who have beefs with each other and they don't know that I know almost all the members of the drama. It's pretty messy and quite silly. Girls and the rumors they start. Seriously. The most interesting thing is that most of the girls "hate" the other girls just because the boy they like happens to like the other girl. It's rather ridiculous, in my opinion.
These fights have been on my mind for a while. Through a series of events I was reminded of the Salem Witch Trials. I think this is the old school version of mean girls. If you didn't like a girl. If you thought she was going to steal the blacksmith's son from you, accuse her of being a witch and then they'd kill her. Isn't that how Mean Girls works? It's pretty bad. Of course, the girls learn it from their mothers. It's a difficult pattern to break. I wonder, were the Salem Witch accusers all just making stuff up like most girls (and their mothers) do now? At least now, the consequences aren't so...permanent.
Of course, I say this knowing absolutely no history of the Salem Witch Trials. I know they happened, or at least the history books tell us that. Wikipedia will tell us that women who were not subservient to men were often accused and thought to have the devil in them. I suppose many women would be dead today if they kept up that craziness. In either case, I wonder, truly wonder, how many girls in 7-12th grades would accuse a girl if they knew the end consequence would be death. Sadly, I think there would be at least a few that would hesitate and this is a sad thing indeed