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It's entirely Janice's fault that Cady became a mean girl

posted 2 years ago by RustyShacklefurd (2025)
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Cady only became a mean girl because she joined the Plastics and hanging out with them enabled them to be a bad influence on her. And Cady only joined the Plastics because Janis wanted her to hang out with them as part of a plan to get revenge on Regina. The absurd, unspoken assumption of Janis's plan was that Cady could hang out with the Plastics without genuinely becoming just like them. And even after Cady stopped being a Plastic Janis never apologized to her for causing her to become a mean girl or even expressed awareness of her responsibility for it.

[–] soggybotton (28) 3 months ago

Yeah, Janis definitely got the whole thing rolling, but Regina had a big part to play in it as well, and isn't Cady responsible for her own actions? Cady started looking, talking, and acting just like Regina. Janis made the mistake of thinking that Cady would always stay true to her and Damian as her real friends. And yes, Janis should've apologized at the end along with Cady.

That's Girl World for ya... Trust no one!

[–] fc31 (4583) 3 months ago

I think the mean girls include Janis, they are all mean girls.

Otherwise I think the movie would have been called 'The plastics'.

[–] soggybotton (28) 3 months ago

You nailed it fc31. Even Janis admits she's a mean girl during the drive-by scene.