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Considering my own high school experience and the films have been made and are being made, I don't fell the films reflect reality which Denby asks in his article. In the film Mean Girls the movie shows that the clicks to be based on race which in my high school it wasn't divided by race, in truth it wasn't really divided at all a lot of people were friends with each other.There also wasn't a person who was unpopular that became popular over the school year, the majority of the students knew who each other was. In most films cheerleaders are the "mean girls" but in my high school i was a cheerleader which i refused to be mean to any one, in total honesty the majority of the girls on the cheer team were all nice. In response to Denby
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