There’s a new enterprise in helping a mean girl to give up her wicked, wicked ways. The girls, known as Queen Bees, Alphas and R.M.G.’s (Really Mean Girls) are writing the primer for succeeding socially in the mean streets of middle school, and naturally “help” is on the way. Their wars end at Waterloo (or Hiroshima). Mean girls make the battle between the sexes sound like a march for peace. A grown woman can be enraged by the guy who turns his back to her in bed, but his is a gentleman’s gesture compared to the 11-year-old girl who turns her back on her closest girlfriend, giving her the silent treatment as she walks down the hall at school. These girls have a Darwinian drive with unlimited energy for social climbing on the icy path to popularity. Mean girls, as described in the New York Times, are more little witches than bitches, and you find them stirring the cauldron of double trouble in, of all places, middle school. ![]() She’s not satisfied to meow like a pussy cat. ![]() She’ll stab a girl in the back, stick pins in a doll made up in her best friend’s image, and roar like a lioness. She takes no prisoners in her pursuit of popularity. A mean girl just wants to be her own man. “The Feminine Mystique” was a revolutionary guide book for would-be feminists about how to rebel against their mothers’ lives. ![]() Mean girls, maybe meaner than boys, are in.
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