Mean Girls (top by a mile)
American Pie 1+2 (though they’d awfully misogynistic in a modern light)
Cruel Intentions
The Breakfast Club
Empire Records
Detention (the most balls out insane movie I’ve ever seen)
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Set entirely at a party cos the filmmakers realised that was always their favourite bit in teen movies, and featuring basically everyone from the late 90s / early 00s
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They’re… quite something.
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Mean Girls
Heathers
Juno
But I’m A Cheerleader
10 Things I Hate About You
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Fuck! Of course But I’m A Cheerleader! Huge inspiration back when I was a little gaybie
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Oh fuck…goes to Things You’ve Been Slow to Realise thread
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Can’t hardly wait
Get over it
Can’t buy me love
One where John cusack goes on a road trip.
Dazed and confused
Out cold
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As enjoyable as loads of these films are, there’s something very troubling to me about the way in which their tropes lend themselves to the normalisation of abhorrent and abusive behaviour. Particularly the “you need to go through the bad boys to find a good one” sort of nonsense that is completely ubiquitous and accepted as a trope even in modern examples.
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God tier:
10 things
Clueless
Bring it on
Mean girls
Legally blonde
Massively underrated:
Bend it like Beckham
Save the last dance
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The Sure Thing
was about to post this one, fucking love it
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10 things… is an absolute classic. Maybe a top 20 film for me
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2012
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Think I liked fast times at ridgemont high but it’s been ages since I’ve watched ot
A lot of the ones I can think of don’t just normalise it - they celebrate it.
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Adventureland is pretty great
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It is!
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Can’t believe I forgot Bring It On. It’s one of my favourite movies. What a cheerelicition of duties 
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More I think about it, want to move save the last dance to God tier for broaching topics no one else really did