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!

Fictional Hangover Podcast

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...