Mean Girls Essay

For as long as I can remember, I always had more guy friends than girl friends. I am not sure if girls intimidated me, or if I just got along better with boys. Hearing this from a girl might sound strange. Being older, I realize the reason I prefer to surround myself with boys is because they can be more laid back and less dramatic. While I do have a couple of close girl friends now, I still have a bigger group of close guy friends. Middle school is when I first realized how mean girls could be, forming cliques and teasing kids who did not fit into their idea of “normal.” I instantly discovered that I did not want to be included in the drama-filled cliques of middle school girls. While boys can act the same way, I noticed that they do not typically care about the same drama as girls.
Mean Girls is a movie based off of four popular girls in high school who make up rumors about the other students and even their teachers. I was in middle school at the time and did not understand if the movie was real or exaggerated. Seeing how girls my age acted toward one another, and to other people in the school, I thought it was extremely possible that this movie could be real. Once I got to be in high school, I realized that Mean Girls was exaggerated, to an extent. For example, my high school never experienced anything as extreme as a “Burn Book,” a book containing every girls picture with mean comments accompanying them. However, in my high school there were still cliques, drama, rumors, and girls were still mean to each other for no