Looking back at several decades of the most memorable and acid-tongued Mean Girls in pop culture, it all comes back to the early stages of slut shaming. The Mean Girl is always overly sexualized—but her actual sexuality is neutered in favor of a sexless sex appeal. The Mean Girl is designed to be fuckable, but not to actually fuck. Whether she does or doesn’t, she will be punished. At worst, her own sexual agency is completely ignored or removed from
