Mean Girls

I was watching the movie Mean Girls which really plays on the stereotypes of the way that girls behave in high school. In the movie the girls deal with their issues of everyday life through back stabbing, playing viscous games and manipulating people. These girls try to destroy each other's lives and relationships for their own self gain. While this movie is exaggerating the stereotypes of girl's typical behaviors, it does bring to audiences attention the differences between ways that men and women deal with their issues. In the movie the boys deal with their problems openly and when one of the girls was playing a game to get one of the boy's attentions, he responded by saying "if you wanted to talk to me, you should have just talked to me". In real life we always hear people say how girls internalize what they feel and instead of openly trying to deal with problems they use tactics to get revenge or respond to the situation. Girls accomplish this by talking behind each other's backs, spreading rumors or manipulating people. It is also said that males instead of dealing with their feelings internally they confront their situations head on. They fight about issues and confront the person they are dealing with face to face.I believe that this is not entirely true. I am constantly hearing boys talk about one another, calling them names and talking about their weaknesses and trying to make themselves seem more masculine. Although I agree that males are different in the way that they deal with unfavorable situations, I do think that they are similar to women in the fact that they attack people by using their weak points. Instead of spreading rumors about each other they will attack other males where they think they are the least masculine. This movie was an extreme version of the way that males and females differ when dealing with certain events, however, it did make audiences think about why these differences occur; and are men and women really that different.