Scientific Review Says Women Have Evolved to Be Mean Girls
A recent review published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B argues that women are catty and gossipy because of evolution. It was likely dreamt up in the twilight hours, after its author watched the mall safari scene of Mean Girls and thought, "I wonder...."
Aaron Samuels of Mean Girls, sometimes known by his real name Jonathan Bennett, has apparently accomplished much since that seminal role. Not only is he in the Eyebrow Hall of Fame, according to BuzzFeed, he's currently employed as a spin instructor at Flywheel in Los Angeles. Because you really just want to lose…
Mean Girls Arrested for Bullying 12-Year-Old Who Killed Herself
Two girls — one 14-year-old and one TWELVE-year-old — have just been arrested, and bullying and Facebook played a part in the charges.
Adele Says Fanks But No Fanks to Seven-Figure Memoir Paycheck
Although Adele and her people have been meeting with Harper Collins to discuss a possible book deal (with a seven-figure offer), it won't be a memoir because, at 24, she thinks she's too young.
The Mean Girls Broadway Musical Is Definitely, For Sure Going to Happen
So yeah, what is going on with that much-ballyhooed Mean Girls Broadway musical
Confessions of a Teenage Word-Bully
It is 1986. We are 13- and 14-year-olds, rank-smelling in unwashed teenager jeans, unsupervised and latch-keyed after school, huddled around the face of the future: The screen of a first-generation Apple Macintosh personal computer. Within the machine's non-dairy creamer-colored casing is a malleable visual playground…
I Miss You, Lindsay Lohan, and I Want You Back
I have this super vivid memory of walking out of the theater after Mean Girls and saying to my friend, "So, Lohan. Do you think she's going to make it?"
X Factor's Rachel Crow Decides to Comb Mean Girls Out of Her Curls
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Crow, who wowed Simon Cowell (and TV viewers) with her X Factor audition last year, has just debuted a new song and video from her upcoming album, and it deals with bullying. Crow sings:
Real Housewives Will Make You Evil
Watchdog groups have long complained about the effect of violence in the media on kids. But new research shows it's not just gunfights that will fuck people up — mean girl behavior onscreen could be contagious too.
Creepily Enthusiastic Maryland Teen Asks Legislators to Outlaw Gay…
A Maryland teenager who asked Maryland state legislators to vote 'no' on marriage equality for her 14th birthday has become the first human to successfully break the homophobe sound barrier. In her speech before Maryland's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, she managed to claim being gay is a choice, that…
How To Stand Up To Adult Bullies
Bullying is supposed to be a junior high thing, but everyone knows it doesn't always end when childhood does. Today we have some tips for dealing with bullies, mean girls, and mean guys who are long past their cafeteria days.
Department of Stereotypes Reports That Women Make Great Frenemies
Do you ever feel like everyone is just terrible? Everyone thinks you're terrible, too. Especially if you're a woman.
Does A Sexist Work Environment Create "Queen Bee" Bosses?
The Leiden University in the Netherlands asked 63 senior female employees at police departments in three Dutch cities to take an online questionnaire designed to gauge how important their gender identity was at work and whether or not they felt they identified with other women in the police force:
The Death Of The Mean Girl
A writer who had a hand in creating the early-aughts hysteria over female bullying now says the era of the mean girl is over. But not everyone agrees.
The Ten Worst Things Robin Givhan Ever Wrote
Amanda Hess offers this compendium of Pulitzer-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan's underminery. "Kagan's version of middle-age seems stuck in a time warp, back when 50-something did not mean Kim Cattrall or Sharon Stone, Cougar Town or Sex and the City."
Little Mean Girls Are Really, Really Mean
A scourge of toddler mean girls has parents frantic.
Watch The Blasphemous Mean Girls 2 Trailer
You love Mean Girls, right? Well Mean Girls 2 is just like the original! (But with an idiotic plot, crude barf jokes, and actors you've never heard of.) In other words, it's the ugliest effing direct-to-DVD remake we've ever seen.
Tina Fey's Jokes Make D.C. Crowd Nervous—And She's Team Cake
Right-wing women, said Tina Fey last night, are great for all women, "unless you don't want to pay for your own rape kit...[or] you're a lesbian who wants to get married to your partner of 20 years."
Sarah Palin Snubbed By Mama Grizzlies In California
Though Sarah Palin is making the rounds in California this weekend, appearances with Palin-endorsed Senate candidate Carly Fiorina and gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman aren't on the agenda. Apparently, conservative popularity has its downsides, even for Palin. [Salon]
Californians Take A Stand In Favor Of Barbara Boxer's Hair
BREAKING: Thanks to Public Policy Polling, we now know Californians
What If Yesterday's Teen Movie Characters Had Today's Technology?
When a sequel to Mean Girls was announced last week, I started thinking of all the ways technology has changed since the 2004 original, and began to wonder how various classic teen film characters would handle today's methods of communication.
Mean Girls Times Two: "Sequels" In The Works
Rumors of a straight-to-DVD Mean Girls sequel have been confirmed by SlashFilm. Also: Mean Moms! Without Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan, it's hard to get excited about it. But it's worth thinking about how the 2004 classic should be updated.
Mean Moms Hit The Big Screen
We have mixed feelings about the advent of Mean Moms, which, says Variety, "will carry some resemblance to Paramount's 2004 comedy Mean Girls."
Fashion Blogger Tavi Gevinson On Terry Richardson, Cute Shoes, &…
Teen blogger Tavi Gevinson spoke this morning to a packed room of industry professionals, reporters, and marketers about the "unpredictability" of Generation Y. They wanted to know how the generation's personal qualities would make young people liable to buy things.
— Amanda Seyfried
who won't take credit for her character's hilarious lines in Mean Girls. But her breasts really do know when it's going to rain raining, right? [Teen Vogue]