Mean Girls

(2004)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

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A good argument against the institutionalising effects of schooling - particularly as children are routinely distrusted no matter their behaviour. But, it is not this, nor an analogue for how Muslims are treated in Islamophobic cultures – so it is not as self aware as it pretends.

However, the homeschooler’s first school day (at age 16) and the teenage cliques are detailed. Here, Girl World is a warped form of Feminism where what others think of you is more important than what you think of yourself.

Witty, well written and insightfully funny, with spot on performances and characterisation. The balance of power shifts to an understanding that scapegoating others will not make you happy: ‘I don’t hate you because you’re fat; you’re fat because I hate you!’ Women would obviously run the world if they did not hate each other like this.

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