How ‘Mean Girls’ Subverted a Male-Centric Genre
Vulgar and goofy comedy used to be a boys club. Screwball comedies like Dumb and Dumber and Zoolander were all about men and how ridiculous, horny, and goofy they can be. Women weren’t treated the same way in these comedies. Women were often the objects of cockeyed men’s attention rather than a source of comedy … Read more