“I think it’s a way to minimize and make cute something that people don’t really want to look at, which is girls do have feelings of aggression and desire at that age, and they’re not always behaving as they should be. They’re filled with yearning and anger and all of these things. It seems diminishing to me. If you look at those two words, ‘mean,’ which is sort of a very light term. It’s not saying ‘evil’ or ‘dark’ or ‘wild.’ It’s almost sweet. And then ‘girls’ of course, not young women. I think it’s the whole package. It feels like a pat on the head like, ‘Oh, you mean girl.’”
