Tag: Mean Girls
A Show About an Ambiguous Straight Man Ambiguously Set in the 2010s: Overcompensating
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Benito Skinner’s debut TV series, Overcompensating, isn’t that it’s a lifeline for those who are still in the closet and [Read More…]
Lindsay Lohan Once Again References Past Movie Glory in Yet Another Commercial
Despite Lindsay Lohan’s rather limited filmography, it hasn’t stopped her from continually homing in on the main three movies that launched her into the spotlight—The [Read More…]
The Only Thing to Celebrate This 4th of July? Kesha’s “Joyride”
Reminding the corporate overlords that Pride Month is never really over (no Katy Perry reference intended), Kesha has brought us a balls-to-the-wall queer anthem for [Read More…]
A Mean Girl With “Complexity”: Cressida Bitchface
It is both a difficult and rare thing to lend something like “depth” to the proverbial mean girl. More often than not, it simply isn’t [Read More…]
Irish Wish: Mean Girls and Freaky Friday “Plotlines” Collide With Others Amidst a Backdrop of Irish and Rom-Com Stereotypes, Non Sequiturs
Saint Patrick’s Day is perhaps famously lacking in movies centered on it as a “holiday” for good reason (see: Leprechaun as part of that good [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #48: Removing the Fire Crotch Line From Mean Girls 2024
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture…and all that it affects. [Read More…]
Gen Z Is to Cady Heron as Millennials Are to Regina George, Or: Does Mean Girls 2024 Make Gen Z the New Queen Bee? Hardly.
For those who applaud it, any contempt expressed for the latest iteration of Mean Girls is likely to be met with the ageist rebuke of [Read More…]
Reneé Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Not My Fault” Seeks to Vindicate Regina George For Being a Bitch
Just as Regina George likely would have been praised for her burgeoning badonkadonk had the original been made in the present, so, too, would she [Read More…]
The Grim Fan Fiction Presented by the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart Commercial
In 2023, Wal-Mart has so “generously” allowed us to catch a glimpse into the lives of where the mean girls from 2004 are now. Not [Read More…]
Gen Zers Think Millennials Are Cringe, But Still Want to Emulate Them in the Mean Girls Commercial
Apart from being one of the most overt pieces of capitalist propaganda to wield pop culture in recent memory, the Mean Girls x Wal-Mart commercial [Read More…]
