Compare And Contrast Essay On Mean Girls

Movies are sometimes made to portray real life. In Mean Girls the movie, the director does a good job of showing how high school girls interact but tends to enhance some parts to make it more interesting. The differences between the movie and real life are not easily distinguishable, but the similarities stand out.
“That’s why her hair is so big: It’s full of secrets.” The Burn Book was a major focal point in Mean Girls the movie. The burn consisted of many horrible rumors that eventally lead to many lives being ruined. In a theatrical realm, there always seems to be written element of gossip. The burn book allowed the girls to get their ill-will towards others out, without actually telling the person. Girls think that if they write it down and not say it then it will never get back to the person that the rumor was targeted at. But that is not true, most of the the rumor get translated back to the person, but may be changed in some way.

Those rumors will then start up more drama.
Revenge is not always a good option, but most the time it is.

Regina George was cruel to a lot of her peers, some may compare her to Hitler. Since Regina George was the gossip leader of Mean Girls, something bad was bound to happen. Once, girls find out about what others say about them they let their emotions take over. Girls know that if you mess with ones emotion, it is easier to take them down. Like when the girls tried to take Regina’s boyfriend and to make her fat.
“On Wednesdays we wear pink.” In the mean girls realm there are very strict dress code guidelines. Such as, on Wednesdays they wear pink, and one can only wear sweatpants or jeans on Fridays. Hair is an important point for every girl no matter where you go to school. But in mean girls you can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week. Also if one is in the clique one cannot wear hoop earrings, since hoop earrings are Regina’s thing. In the movie the girls worried too much about what the others thought, they were not able to exspress themselves

acuratly.
In a fictional world, it seems like girls always seem to physically work everything out. After the huge burn book explosion everything went to hell, girls were fighting over boys and teachers. Instead of solving their problems with words, the girls used physical strength to get their way. Movies seem to always portray girls as fighting wolves, they always go for the jugular. Instead of talking it out the girls went for ripping out hair and physically harming the other person.
Real highschool girls are creative in how they gossip. With new technology, comes new ways to gossip. Most commonly used is a little thing they call group messaging. It allows them to be in a texting conversation with all of their friends so that they can talk back and forth with each other. This is extremely important for high school girls, today because instead of gossiping in a group of girls where it can be overheard, they send a message and everyone knows the new rumor. It is also very easily deleted. If somebody finds out about the message, all the girls involved, just have to delete it and then there is no proof. Group messaging has become a key weapon for real mean girls.
“Trash talking” seems to mostly be affiliated with boys, but girls do it just as bad. Their words have the capability of tearing down a person’s well being. They will say things that sound harmless like, “She is just wearing that shirt because it makes her chest look good.” The actual sentence doesn’t seem all that nasty but if that girl overheard them it could make her feel awful. Girls are really smart about how they do this trash talking. They will twist their words to make themselves sound harmless and like they were just trying to help. “I was just worried about how guys and other people would portray her. I really didn’t mean anything bad by it.” She may sound innocent, then but to her friends it would have been clear she had it out for this girl.
Style is usually very important to a high school girl. It creates an image of who she is and what she might be into. Unlike the movies, real high school girls tend to be very unique when it comes to clothing. They don’t wear the same color on the same day and feel more than welcome to wear jeans more than once in a week. Of course, this doesn’t mean that mean girls wouldn’t gossip about how someone was wearing gauchos and 4 inch platform flip flops. Recently though, style has gotten more and more diverse and it is easier to be accepted for what a girl might wear.
Real high school girls are better at dealing with their problems. Fighting will most likely occur, but it is talked out rather than a fistfight. They might act nice and say things behind the back, but eventually it comes to a stop when they confront each other. There is usually no need for an assembly about the problem. It’s harder to hold grudges in real life too, but because life literally goes on where a movie is for an hour or two.
As one can see Mean Girls the movie and real life mean girls aren’t that different. Both have ways of communicating the newest gossip and stalking their next prey. Also they enjoy poking fun of other girls and create those nasty rumors to spread. One important thing that both scenarios can teach one is that high school doesn’t reflect how the real world operates. In the real working world girl’s won’t stab you in the back, or take your boy. If they do those types of people are not called women they are called girls.
Mean girls the movie and the reality of mean girls have many similarities which are easily seen, but they have distinct differences which set them miles apart. It is important to see both the differences and similarities to understand how movies illustrate real life.