I've often heard of high school being referred to as the ultimate case study in describing adult life. While I think this is obviously a convenient and exaggerated way to look at life from 18 onwards, I think there are also many cases in which this analogy works. One particular part of high school that serves especially well in detailing real life is the stupid girl gossip.Girls our age would love to have you believe that they are "Like, soooo over drama" but the truth is there is nothing girls love better than to talk about other girls. But they don't necessarily talk about other girls as much as they whisper, leaning in close with the other girl they aren't talking about at that moment and being like "so she just like took her toothbrush and slammed the door." And along with the whisper comes the weird eyes-to-the-ceiling kind of thing girls do to exaggerate how offensive their nonsense story is supposed to be. See, girls are experts in passive aggressive conduct. They avoid confrontation at all costs, and only face their nemeses (that's plural) when every last other girl has heard the incriminating tale at hand first. It really is absurd. Dudes don't do that. As embarrassing as a confrontation could potentially end, most notably in a knockout, guys will at least tell other guys when they do something gay, like "dude,for real quit being a fag." Yes, their terminology is often politically incorrect when they finally square up to address the other dude being a deusche, but at least most guys have the civil courtesy to not drag it out and advertise said deuschery to all their other buddies.
Thank God for girls, or else girls wouldn't have anything to talk to other girls about.
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