love it or hate it Mean Girls is a pop
culture icon but there's a huge
difference between watching a movie
about high school when you're in high
school and watching it as an adult while
you may now be able to fully appreciate
the satire some things aren't quite as
funny
speaking Swahili for someone who grew up
in Africa
Kady seems absurdly out of touch Jambo
what her assumption that the black
students speak Swahili is the sort of
casual racism you'd expect from someone
who doesn't know there are an estimated
1,500 to 2,000 languages spoken in all
the countries of Africa never mind the
fact that Katy automatically assumes the
black students are in fact African in
the first place
racial segregation there's a lot of
racial diversity at Katie's high school
here
this map is gonna be your guide to North
Shore but did you notice that many of
the cliques are divided by race yes it's
a satire but it's pretty disturbing and
a little too cartoonish to see Asian
American students and African American
students in the film only hanging out
with people of the same skin color
trendy on top it's a pretty
well-established fact that Katy has zero
fashion sense you can't wear a tank top
two days in a row and you can only wear
your hair in a ponytail once week so I
guess you pick today yet somehow when
she puts her hair down we see that it's
cut in trendy layers the hairstyle Katy
is rocking was one of the most trendy
haircuts of the 2000s Ms Norbury story
not only has Miss Norbury just gone
through a divorce but she's also working
two other jobs in addition to full-time
teaching
oh my god that's me snore Berry
seeing a dog walk on its hind legs in
real life many teachers are underpaid
and teacher salaries are slipping with
wages significantly lower than that of
other college educated professionals
more and more people are opting for more
lucrative career paths which is leading
to a shortage of teachers those who do
join the education workforce often have
to pick up a second job just to make
ends meet Kevin versus the plastics yeah
Kevin's rap was a little risque but it's
nowhere near as bad as the dance routine
the plastics performed Kevin's
suggestive lyrics got him kicked off the
stage while the plastics were allowed to
complete their entire routine in 2016
BuzzFeed gave Rajiv Surendra another
chance to perform Kevin's rap without a
shirt needless to say fans ate it up
piano skills we know that miss Norbury
second job is working as a bartender and
judging by her piano skills a music
related job is likely her third when
Gretchen kicks over the CD player with
the plastics dance music on it
Katy starts singing and miss Marbury
immediately jumps on the piano with a
flawless unrehearsed rendition of jingle
bell rock bad at math the fact that
Katy's crush in Regina's boyfriend Aaron
Samuels is bad at math is a significant
plot point in the movie in order to
convince him to tutor her Katy pretends
to be even worse at math leading to her
calculus grade totally dropping how do
you do not so good you know I think I
need a tutor but as not savvy adults
will notice it's pretty clear that Aaron
just isn't bad at math he's awful
especially for his grade and he probably
needs a tutor himself pen writing on the
wall regina implicates katie gretchen
and karen in the bird book scandal by
writing terrible things about herself in
it so that the only people not mentioned
are the other plastics
the trio gets into trouble after copies
of the burn book are distributed
throughout the school and are then
accused of writing it even though they
insist Regina is the culprit but somehow
despite the fact that the book is
completely written by hand it never
occurs to anyone to check the
handwriting in it against Regina's
probable cause
after the burn book is revealed miss
Norbury is investigated by the police
because of an accusation that she is a
drug pusher I gotta say watching the
police searched my house really was the
cherry on top of a fantastic year but
it's highly unlikely that the police
would have been able to obtain a search
warrant for her house based on a rumor
started by high school girls by law
there must be probable cause in order to
issue a warrant and the burn book is
hardly a credible source thanks for
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