Mike's Share: Mean Girls - Tracy Vaillancourt
- Apr 13
- 1 min read
From Mike: My "Think Again" hook of this video is to realize that I do not really have the same level of understanding about the inner workings of girls and their development into women. I can look back into my own personal history and also into history at large and see how boys were ancestrally introduced to being men, how to handle bullies, what constitutes noble behaviour and while basic moral values are not gender specific, perhaps the social experience of young girls and what they have to cope with among their peers is different than what boys experience and also my own experience as a young person growing up. It begs a question for me....has there ever been a hierarchical or communal social structure that was codified in some way to help young girls become good women?
Di and I are not devoutly religious in most regards but I am aware that in western society in the past, moral upbringing was partially agreed upon within communities through religious means. In other cultures I am aware of rites of passage for young girls. There seems to be nothing like this for girls today. No stable and trusted wise women to guide and to correct. What is left is the social structure of Mean Girls guided only by one another.
I would be very curious to hear what people think in this regard.
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