Good afternoon,

This is the 100^th Fem Friday, so as a treat you get an emoji in the subject line and some links totally unrelated to the number 100. Today’s links are about or related to being a teenager, which you may remember with either affection or hatred but I hope these links make you smile today.

Let’s start with an oral history of all-time classic high school film Mean Girls. I don’t want to give away the great lines in this piece, but there are many and I strongly encourage you to click and read. It’s also possible that you’ve not watched Mean Girls recently enough, so consider that possibility when making your plans for the evening:

“[The hair stylist] had worked on really big films that had been shot in Toronto. I remember asking her, ‘How do you think this movie is going to fare?’ and she said, ‘Come on. It’s called Mean Girls and it’s starring Lindsay Lohan. It’s going straight to DVD.’”

http://www.ew.com/article/2014/04/01/mean-girls-10-year-anniversary-damian-gretchen-look-back

Here’s an article about being Best Friends, which is still one of my favourite topics:

People talk a lot about whether men and women can be friends, as though the difficulty of friendship stopped there, as though the same question shouldn’t be asked about all friendship—can two women be friends, can two people be friends, can two teenage kids be friends right at the gateway to an adult kind of want[…]?

https://catapult.co/stories/first-best-friend

Finally, this probably isn’t real, but I hope that you – like I did – can enjoy it as though it is:

http://imgur.com/a/1vB4F

Have a great weekend!

Alex.