In high school, appearances are everything. So even the illusion of power is enough to cause permanent psychological damage. A teenage girl who knows how to wield her power, even if her kingdom is barely more than the halls of a high school, is terrifying. So when the most popular girl in school tells you your skirt is “adorable,” that’s a ray of social sunshine. And if you overhear her, a second later, say, “That is the ugliest f-ing skirt I’ve ever seen,” well, that might be silly, but it stays. We’ve all had a Regina George in our lives, and since 2004, she’s become the default Mean Girl, a
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