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Salon
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Nardos Haile

Teen girls are mad and fighting back

"Everyone seems angry these days" is all we hear from the conversation surrounding critiques of our cultural and social discourse. Of course, there are plenty of things to be angry about — climate change heating up our planet and destroying habitats, the dual Hollywood strikes sparking insight into our inequitable labor system in America and after seeing some headway with COVID, it's back again.

Yes, we're all angry. Young women are no exception. In fact, not only are they angry, but we're seeing them take their rage out violently onscreen. Take Emma Seligman's latest comedy "Bottoms" – in which bestie PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) start a high school fight club, in which other teenage girls learn to express themselves physically and with maximum force.

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