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The cult of the mean girl
TORONTO STAR ^ | Mar. 5, 2006 | LESLIE SCRIVENER

Posted on 03/06/2006 9:51:00 PM PST by tbird5

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1 posted on 03/06/2006 9:51:02 PM PST by tbird5
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What is especially sad is that teen girls today enjoy acting like this to each other. It's cool to be a bi***. I've heard conversations about how proud they were to put another down, listened to tears and sobbing because girls were mean, then a week later heard a story about how sobbing girl turned around and did the same to someone else. If you aren't tough and mean, you're weak.

What's especially ironic is that the movie "Mean Girls" apparently had the exact opposite effect that the book it was based on intended. Teen girls I know LOVE that movie. Kind of like "Heathers." It's very cool.


2 posted on 03/06/2006 10:09:19 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: tbird5

Interesting article! I see mean women all the time. I've worked for mean women, as well. And let me tell you, working for a woman supervisor can be the toughest job. I've had some great nursing supervisors, but there have been that couple who are terrible, vindictive, spiteful, etc. Female principals are pretty much the same...most, anyway!


3 posted on 03/06/2006 10:09:24 PM PST by Shery (S. H. in APOland)
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To: tbird5

Obvious _ I _ C _ ping. I could not resist. Call me weak and obvious.


4 posted on 03/06/2006 10:10:46 PM PST by aliquando (A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
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To: tbird5

I have only seen the trailer for this film, but man alive, it seems pretty violent; not beheadings or knifings, just endless face-slappings and punching. Didn't appeal to me much.


5 posted on 03/06/2006 10:42:20 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Funny taglines are value plays.)
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It's pretty tame compared to Heathers. It does pretty accurately sum up how I saw the girls in my high school acting though.

This is one reason it is great to be a guy. If you really have that big a problem with someone you can just duke it out. And 3 hours later be cool with each other. Girls take their issues with each other to the grave.
6 posted on 03/06/2006 10:45:39 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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Very true. One of the reasons I hate working with women is that they take such things personally and get in pissing contests with each other over stupid personal sh-t that has nothing to do with business.

Of course, these women really get it when they try such catiness with us guys. I remember, years ago, receiving a nasty email from the head of my bank's legal department, which she copied to my boss. I replied that she could shove her comments up her fat a-s.

7 posted on 03/06/2006 10:51:48 PM PST by Clemenza (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)
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I personally love seeing sorority girls try to act all high and mighty around guys who aren't in Frats. They aren't used to having a guy telling them what they really think of how they are acting. They are used to getting to act like they are better than everyone and not having anyone bust them back down. It's a beautiful sight.


8 posted on 03/06/2006 10:59:18 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: tbird5
Being nasty to each other is one of the unspoken rules about how girls and women are supposed to behave; one of the rigidly enforced North American standards of what constitutes femininity.

Horse Hockey.

It is the synergistic effects of bad behavior, female ease with practicing flagrant duplicity, and the dissonance that comes from outright refusal to accept responsibility for ones actions despite all evidence.

9 posted on 03/06/2006 11:20:22 PM PST by papertyger
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To: xsmommy

Pinging the Alpha Mean Grrrrl.

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10 posted on 03/06/2006 11:33:32 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Clemenza

Someone should have told Charlie Brown about that in re Lucy.


11 posted on 03/06/2006 11:34:18 PM PST by The Red Zone
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"It's impossible to talk about this issue without talking about patriarchy — it sets women up against each other,"

I knew it had to be in there somewhere.

12 posted on 03/06/2006 11:44:37 PM PST by TChad
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When I was in University it was required that all BA students take a 3rd or 4th year Science elective. A course known as Environmental Management Practices had a reputation for being the easiest of them, so it attracted all the Sorority types.

What was not advertised about this course is that it included fieldtrips to sewage treatment plants, landfills and mine.

My best memory of university is the sorority girls at the sewage treatment plant. It wasn't invented yet, but I would have killed for a camcorder. "Like oh. my. god. I am not going in there"

I would have taken that course five times given the chance.

13 posted on 03/06/2006 11:53:59 PM PST by Energy Alley
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Just damn. Where can I sign up for that one ? I'd pay money to see that.

In my engineering school we had the antithesis of that... take one social studies elective. One guess what it was. Oh yea. Women's studies. God. I'd have taken the sewers and landfills any day over that...


14 posted on 03/07/2006 12:09:09 AM PST by farlander (Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
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To: tbird5
From article: one of the rigidly enforced North American standards of what constitutes femininity

Oh crapola. "North American standard"? Then I suppose 4000000 BC years ago, there was North America...

15 posted on 03/07/2006 3:24:17 AM PST by Alia
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To: Dashing Dasher; Millee; PaulaB; Xenalyte; najida

Women-bashing ping.


16 posted on 03/07/2006 3:32:01 AM PST by Allegra (Please pray for peace in Iraq.)
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To: cgk

It's just bullying, in a less violent form.


17 posted on 03/07/2006 3:41:14 AM PST by RavenATB (Patton was right...)
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To: Allegra

Not bashing, just observations of the all too common cattiness that I'm sure bothers you as much if not more than men.


18 posted on 03/07/2006 3:44:10 AM PST by Toby06 (Check out my revised profile!)
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To: Clemenza
Very true. One of the reasons I hate working with women is that they take such things personally and get in pissing contests with each other over stupid personal sh-t that has nothing to do with business.

Yep. We're all exactly like that. Every one of us is the same.

:eyeroll: It amazes me how many woman-haters I have met. I often wonder if that hatred is compensation for something lacking or if it's bitterness remaining from that pretty high school girl who turned them down for the prom...

I sure don't get it, though. thank goodness I know plenty of men who are secure in themselves, act decently and don't have all these "issues."

19 posted on 03/07/2006 3:47:11 AM PST by Allegra (Please pray for peace in Iraq.)
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...I'm sure bothers you as much if not more than men.

Oh, I can't stand catty, jealous women. (Plus, I'd rather go to an NFL game than go {shudder!} shopping.)

It's the sweeping generalizations being made by some (not all) on this thread that are somewhat disturbing.

20 posted on 03/07/2006 4:05:29 AM PST by Allegra (Please pray for peace in Iraq.)
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