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● Typical first day where everything goes wrong ● When the principal said Cady was from Africa, and then Ms. Norbury pointed at the black girl shows implicit biases and assumptions people make ● Cady said something in African to a group of black kids at lunch ● “This is Damian and he’s almost too gay to function” (Janice) ● Damian and Janice already dragging Cady down by making her skip class ● They keep referring to “Africa”, but no specific region or country ● “You’ve truly out-gayed yourself” (Janice) ● All the typical stereotypes at lunch ● “I’m not retarded” (Regina George) ● “So if you’re from Africa, then why are you white?” (Karen) ● Joining the mathletes would destroy Cady’s social status ● Animal/jungle scene in the mall is so unique and cool ● Regina’s mom has basically no rules for her, and that’s why she’s so spoiled ● Girls pointing out the flaws with their body shows the common theme of negative body image in girls ● Interesting who keeps getting Cady’s name wrong and who gets it right ● I feel so bad for Cady when she showed up in the “ex-wife” costume ● So weird when Karen starts flirting with her cousin ● Turning point for Cady when Regina kisses Aaron ● “Why would I break up with you, you’re so hot” (Regina George), showing that looks are all that matter ● Another jungle scene ● When everyone starts cutting holes in their shirts it shows how Regina sets the standards ● References to the jungle are showing the single story about Africa ● Cady is turning the Plastics against each other one by one ● Cady is the only character in the movie that isn’t a stereotype ● Gretchen’s speech scene where she breaks down is proof that she’s breaking down ● Stereotype of Asian girls being oversexualized by haveing relationships with teachers ● Regina says she wants to lose 3 pounds to fish for compliments ● Cady looks progressively more oily over the course of the movie, showing she's slowly

becoming plastic ● Cady failed her test and altered something about herself all for a boy ● Cady is becoming what she hates ● “You don’t have to dumb yourself down to get guys to like you” (Ms. Norbury) ● Starting rumors that Ms. Norbury is selling drugs, which could seriously ruin her reputation and jeopardize her job ● “The Spring Fling Queen is always pretty” (Regina George), showing looks are the only thing that matters ● Regina slut shames but she was the one cheating on her boyfriend ● It’s normalizing that these are insults and labels that you want to avoid ● Cady tells Aaron to shut up just like Regina and he tells her that she’s a clone of Regina ● Janis confronts Cady and tells her that she’s not pretending anymore ● “It’s not my fault that you’re in love with me or something”, she’s saying the same thing that Regina said about Janis and she thinks that everybody’s in love with her ● Shows the girls only speaking Vietnamese, which is racially stereotyping ● Rumors about Ms. Norbury came back to bite her ● Third jungle scene of the movie ● “I did not leave the SouthSide for this” (Mr. Duvall), showing he was once from a lower income area ● Cady’s fashion sense has changed throughout the movie ● The Asian girls use the n word, even though it’s a very offensive racial slur ● “You have to stop calling each other sluts and whores or else it makes it okay for guys to call u it” (Ms. Norbury) ● “She doesn’t even go here!” (Damian), best quote of the movie! ● Even her own parents don’t recognize the person she’s become ● At least she finally owned up to her actions and confessed to the rumor about Ms. Norbury ● “Pick the girls” because girls supposedly have lower intelligence ● At the mathletes competition, Cady finally grows up and the moral of the movie is focused on ● She learned the lesson that being popular isn’t the most important thing, and is rewarded with a crown, a popular girl thing… moral of the story

● Giving a piece to everyone shows how the movie always has a happy ending ● Winning the crown in the mathletes uniform is the best message… be yourself ● She winds up with the most popular guy in school even though the lesson she learned was that you should be yourself and don’t be fake to be popular ● Everyone ends of finding their niche at the end

● Gretchen goes from one queen bee to another just in a different group ● Junior plastics are going to allow history to repeat itself, and they will learn the same lessons that these girls did...