Mean Girls: Understanding female friendships

Mean Girls is such an iconic teen comedy movie that I think most girls of our generation must have already watched it. To the ones who haven't watched it, it is basically a movie that revolves around the life of Cady in high school and how she encounters three of the meanest girls in her new school. She becomes a part of their gang and plans a sabotage against them with Janice who is as mean as them to be honest, but she likes to think otherwise. The three mean girls Regina, Gretchen, and Karen include Cady in their group, and this is where the story starts to shift for all of them. 

From brutal backstabbing to cat fights and bullying, everything takes place in the high school, and you could even compare it to a jungle where all the animals have their own system. Female friendships could either be the strongest bond of sisterhood that you will ever see, or it could either be a living nightmare for you, personally I count myself really blessed to have such wonderful people around me, and if I could talk about how amazing they are then I could probably go on for hours talking about them but I would be lying if I said that I didn't have my fair share of toxic and mean friends around me, admittedly I have also acted like such people due to my own ignorance and pride which I try to work on every day. 

Anyways besides the comedy in the movie there is an underlying issue of how female friendships can be so cruel not only to each other but also towards themselves as well. Women are other women's biggest haters, and its honestly sad to see this. Historically we have always been on the shorter end of the stick, oppressed and judged for everything that we do so it makes sense on why we have the mindset to always compete against other women to fulfill the needs of validation, although this stigma among us is somewhat diminishing at least in our generation however, it would be a lie to say that it is not prevalent anymore because such kinds of toxicity still exists. 

Isn't it sad to see that we like to sabotage our own friends or if you could even call them that because let's be honest you cannot be a true friend if you are trying to sabotage your friend, in 'Mean Girls' Regina backstabs Cady in the beginning when she finds out that Cady has a crush on Aaron now instead of helping her out to get with him like how she said she will and like how a friend is supposed to! Regina gets back together with Aaron leaving Cady completely baffled. Now this type of situation happens way too often in real life as well, the reason for this is male validation. Teen girls often get objectified, this objectification makes them feel that they need to seek for male validation even if it means that they need to bring their fellow friends down, sad to see this but realistically this basically happens everywhere.

Well, this is it for my blog today, Until Next Time!