not to leave out the boys

Mean Girls also depicts the inevitable, unenviable strata of alpha malehood, and how it finds home in even the least culturally “masculine” of worlds: the Mathletes. It’s worth seeing just for the aggro Mathletes captain, identified by his business card as “math captain/bad-ass M.C.,” whose raps brag that his math genius found him in the horizontal mambo with your wife. Not unlike how male rock critics see who’s king bee.