LIFESTYLE: IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU'RE LIKE, IN LOVE WITH ME, OR SOMETHING!

MEAN GIRLS CELEBRATES 10 YEARS

The 10 year anniversary is a Wednesday, and on Wednesdays we wear PINK!

Happy 10th Birthday, Plastics! 

That's right friends, Mean Girls turns 10 today, Wednesday 30th April 2014. I sincerely expect you all to be wearing pink! 

Mean Girls has been such an influential film for so many people, from young teens to adults who remember and even the lads who laugh along knowing secretly, that girls really can be that mean! But for me, this film taught me more lessons than the moral of the story and for the world it blew the lid off teen clicks.

I was 12 going on 13 when Mean Girls was released and although I didn't get to go and see it at the cinema, I remember someone letting me borrow their copy... (wait, the statute of limitations is up, right?) and it was fabulous. It quickly became one of my favourite films! My friends and I would quote the film all the time, I adopted insults and sayings and even identified which clicks I had at my school. 

As I got older and became a victim of my own personal Plastics, I became more of an Art Freak with my friends, which was hard not to do when you were a teen in the Emo generation! The Plastics at my school were, exactly like the Plastics at my secondary school: bitchy, scheming and mean! And there was nothing the teachers would (or could) do about it. In the spirit of Mean Girls, my friends and I would "laugh at the stupid things" they said and we'd laugh at how they'd pick at their food during lunch like "Is butter a carb?" and essentially became mean to survive. But mostly that was what we did at school: we survived. 

If you weren't bullied, you weren't in the "know"....

I know a lot of people would disagree about my school, claiming that there weren't clicks blah blah blah but actually, if you weren't on the receiving end of the Plastics and "Jocks" then you probably weren't aware of their existence. Age 11-16 were rough for me and I remember on Leaver's Day, said bitchy plastics coming up to me and begging to sign my shirt, giving me hugs (bet that was like hugging a wooden post-- uncomfortable and unnecessary!) and telling me they'll miss me "Sooooo much!" What a joke. 

I also had frenemies (they were kind of the Wannabe Plastics) at school who on the day we left, arranged to meet up at the town and grab a Leaver's Lunch together. So I of course rushed home to change only to get a phone call 20 minutes before the meal saying one of the girls mum had taken them all out for lunch and they "forgot" to invite me (but remembered to call me to tell me they'd already eaten)...... Those bitches!
Instead me and my mum went out and got a fancy coffee and a cake and did a little shopping-- she always knows how to make me smile! And thanks to the Plastics relentless bullying, I got over the click of frenemies pretty quickly too-- which was a good idea because a lot of them got involved in some very shady things soon after! And the real friends I had back then, I still have today! :)

Wise words Cady, wise wise words........ If only the Plastics had learned the same lesson when I was at school. Honestly though, whilst I don't in any way condone bullying, I was lucky enough to have a few real friends and family there to help me survive and it made me a stronger person. 

So if you want to pay homage to a great film drop me a comment below about what you thought of the film and what your high school experience was like!