Mean Girls, The Second.

A few weeks ago, Meaghan Martin, Jennifer Stone, Maiara Walsh, and Nicole Anderson stepped out of their Disney shoes and followed in the footsteps of Lindsay Lohan, in Mean Girls 2. You gotta give it to them. Lindsay Lohan is Lindsay Lohan. The sequel needed to be just as good as Lindsay's movie. Leaving out Regina George was an error, apparently, according to the massive Twitter feed that stated so.

MEAN. Regina George is a fake friend, who's nasty, lies to her friends, and makes other people feel inferior to her. She's a bully, only in a more discreet way. In example, telling a girl her skirt is really pretty, then the second she disappears, trashing her to Cady.

In Mean Girls 2, the Plastics are Mandi with an "I", played by Maiara Walsh, and her two sidekicks, Chastity (Claire Holt) and Hope (Nicole Anderson). But in this movie, the difference is the definition of mean is changed to doing mean things and being cold and just plain nasty....

Abby Hanover is that girl that the Plastics hate and will do anything and everything to hurt and humiliate her. She is their main target, their bullying victim. Abby lives across the street from Mandi, and her family is wealthier, so Mandi sees her as a threat. Plus she seemed to "win" at everything they did when they were younger, although it wasn't a competition.

When Jo steps into the picture, the Plastics see her hanging out with Abby. This threatens them, as they have completely pressed Abby into the dirt of the ground and she has no friends and is miserable. That's the type of cruel bullying they play on her on a regular basis. Imagine her self-confidence. She has none.

But Jo sees right through and isn't interested in playing their games with them. She befriends Abby. I'm not going to give you the whole plot of the movie. You can go here for that. The Plastics just do mean thing after mean thing to Jo and Abby to humiliate them, and so they retaliate. Of course good wins over evil in the movie, but it's not always like that in real life.

In real life, the bullied kid is usually bullied, and if a friend comes along, they usually walk away to avoid also being a bullying target. Sometimes a good, lasting friendship is formed with someone else, but there are maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany long, loney, days that induce crying and crying, and sobbing your head off until you can't cry anymore. There is hatred and envy that runs through the veins of a bullying. Insecurites, problems of their own, vicious, cruel behavior that happens right under the nose of everything else. They have a way of victimizing their target so no one else notices and that person is afraid to go to an authority figure, because who will believe them?

This is the kind of behavior that leads bullying victims into depression. And downhill from there. Ever read By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters? A very powerful book there, about just what bullying will do to a person.

Why be Mandi? Why ruin someones life.
Why hurt them. Why cause them to be depressed?
The worst thing that can ever come from bullying is a victim committing suicide.
And it happens.

I can't stop every bully in the world. I'm not going kneel at your feet begging you to stop. But advise any bully out there reading this to stop. Because you're causing irreparable damage with every nasty word you say and every vicious deed you commit.