On an episode of Gossip Girl, which I religiously watch, Dan Humphrey described everyones secret alter ego Blair Waldorf as 'oozing with girly evil' which I thought was genius 'coz it was then that I realized that Saddam Hussein evil is different from a high school brat princess evil. In fact, it's even scarier than a plane crashing on a building scarring everyone who survived the 'attack'.
Like what they always say-high school never ends, it just follows you everywhere you go and for now, its following me throughout my college existence. I really got over this whole cat fight set up which I was used to in elementary through high school but this is college and everything is bigger. That means that the mean girls' devil tiara got more sharp and pointy it could stick an eye out. They are among us, my friend. It could be someone famous in campus, your classmate or even worse, your friend.
You see, I have this friend who everyone hates because of her inability to keep secrets, amazing skills on disseminating whats locked in Pandora's box and believable storytelling. Yeah, this girl is very talented in terms of the 'girl world' as Cady Heron of Mean Girls would call it. She was spreading nasty rumors of our friend which eventually reached my vulnerable friend.
My friend who was now the subject of every gossip got fed up so she took the revenge scheme to Facebook and boy, did the lie blabber got what she deserved. NOT! Okay, at first I thought that what my friend did, creating a hate page with unflattering pictures and alleged narcissistic status updates, was very funny and clever until I introduced my sister to be a fan of the page 'coz it was damn hilarious when I got a different reaction from her. She was kind of mad to the girl who created the page justifying that it was not justifiable for her to do that even though she was being attacked by claims of sluttiness which was probably not even true. She reasoned that nobody deserved such cruelty and that every deserved a chance. I told her that my friend did give my other friend a chance but she did it again so now she's facing the repercussions of her harsh actions. My sister wouldn't give up though. She kept yapping away about social humiliation and then asked me something I haven't thought about being blinded by how much effort and humor was given to the hate page "Would you really go to that extent-creating a page to humiliate someone in front of her friends even though you have good reason for doing it?"
My sister is no saint herself but she did have a point. A point so clear you could see it from afar. I mean, when did others get to think that a hate page out of someones expense was funny and just?
A close friend of mine talked about the frightening situation where she really opened my eyes about what I truly am, one of those mean girls I've been so afraid of. I was so focused on putting myself on my poor friend who created the hate page that I forgot about being plainly a good person who was raised well by his parents. My friend said that she avoids mean girls because they're very hard people to deal with and it would be risking her reputation to social pariah.
This situation leaves me wondering, when were hurt is it necessary for us to humiliate others for revenge to the point where they transfer schools?
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