Teenage Girls. A Seemingly rich subject matter on it's own. Parents don't understand them, they can never understand each other and god help them if they at some point need to understand themselves. But since the release of the movie "Mean Girls", the underlying evil that is embedded in every female brain has been exposed and explored so much so that i found myself inspired to discover just how common these situations of utter chaos and anarchy within 'Girl World' really are. The film gave us all a one way ticket to this world of cattiness cliques and 'can-you-believe-she-said..', this place was like a secret society, a taboo subject, girls were kind and gentle and played nice. WRONG. Hell, i was unaware of the ways of Girl World and it was my natural habitat for 18 years. Surely this was a disservice to my adolescent self, and now, being all the wiser, i feel that i was lucky to have come out alive at all since i was living without this information at my disposal, but who am i to deny anyone else of it.
Unless you are or have been a teenage girl, 'Girl World' is going to scare the pants off you.
Trying to decipher the intricate workings of the mind of a young woman trying to claw her way to the top of the social ladder, or better yet a girl who is desperately trying not to get trampled on during the struggle is definitely a worrying concept. Of course, there's much more to it than popularity and social status, but lets not get carried away just yet.
Explaining the politics (yes it's a political system girls work within, scary no?) of Girl World to an 'outsider can make you appear petty and superficial. Some cases are, of course, more extreme than others and the behavior will vary but even so , this has become the common stamping ground for the average teenage girl with it's multiple degrees of underlying rules, concerns, conflicts, feelings and beliefs connected with the population of Girl World.
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