On Wednesdays we wear pink! This month we break down Mean Girls’ Pop DNA, from the literary tradition of social satire in the work of Swift and Thackeray, to the roles of women in comedy and STEM fields, to the film’s place as a link in a long chain of teen comedies. So fetch!
Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman
Psychology of Mean Girls in adulthood
Chicago Reader Mean Girls review
Jezebel article on Heathers vs. Mean Girls
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Internalized Gender Roles affect STEM Performance from the Daily Texan
The Media and Women in STEM on the Radical Idea Blog
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Social satire in Vanity Fair (requires a free account to read)
Social commentary in Mean Girls
Much Ado About Mean Girls by Ian Doescher
Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” video
How Mean Girls defined the Millenial Generation
Which Mean Girls character are you? quiz (Erin = Gretchen; Rhonda = Cady)
Or this quiz with funnier questions that may yield a different result (Rhonda = Regina[!!!]; Erin hasn’t taken it yet, I’ll get her to)
Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.
Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM
YOU CAN READ OUR BLOG HERE: THEPOPDNA.BLOG
