This is a form of activism that started with the millennial generation and became main stream due to
Gen Z and the “fairy comment” subculture.
The influence of the movie Mean
Girls and other cliche holidaywood coming of age films centered around teenage drama made “mean
girl behavior” more acceptable for a period of time. As millennials grew up and became socially aware, these former mean girls abandoned their tactics of criticizing other women.
With these dormant mean
girl skills, many millennial mean girls created mean
girl activism. Mean
girl activism took all the typical high school mean
girl behavior and changed the target to elected officials or other sources of influence in order to rally support for a specific cause.
Girls who are bullies and use "
girl agression" (nasty comments, trickery, deceit, excluding
people from events, spreading rumors, stealing boyfriends,etc.) to manipulate others are now using these skills to help push for policy reform and legislative change . They will use text messaging, email, three-way-calling, social media blasting, and any other weapon at their disposal to acheieve these goals.
These girls are often popular because everyone is either afraid of them or wants to be
like them. They tend to have armies of followers comprising their clique. Mean
girl activists use this popularity to their advantage to influence their clique to sign petitions, make donations, attend protests, vote, and cyber bully elected officials.
“I used to be such a mean
girl in high school until I grew up and matured into a mean
girl activist.
Now when I feel that urge come along, I call the major and list out every physical imperfection I can find on his face as well as what cosmetic procedures he needs to fix them. After that I demand he defunds the police”
“Mary’s social media feed is full of mean
girl activism, but she did help raise thousands of dollars to support the fight against racial injustice”
