I just watched Mean Girls! Damn, that movie is so Problematic I love it.
Mean Girls confuses me greatly.
It seemed to me like standard pro-homeschool propaganda, though with a bittersweet ending tacked on over the usual bad ending. It’s the cautionary tales homeschoolers tell each other, converted to movie format.
A movie like that is inherently niche: it can’t have mainstream appeal because the mainstream itself is the villain.
I watched it at a party with a group of public schoolers once, and I was boggled that they liked it. A movie that hated them, that called them animals (and not in the technical sense), and yet they were enjoying it.
Is this that “you aren’t stuck in traffic, you are traffic” thing? Nobody’s bothered by anti-public-schooler sentiment because everyone thinks of themselves as not counting, that the sentiment is directed at all those other people?
(Or maybe I was supposed to pattern-match it to Relatable Stories Reminding Me of My Own Life, and enjoy it on that level? But since I never went to public school, the thing in my life it best pattern-matched to was propaganda rather than personal experience, completely changing my perception of the film?)
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#everyone’s got some friend of a friend #who switched to public school and completely fucked up their life and their personality #reply via reblog #Mean Girls #apparently I’m in an italic-y mood today #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #homeschool
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