Can you do a video on the blonde, brunette, and redhead trio?

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Also, Plato first divided power into three, the executive power, legislative and judicial, so it makes sense it's always a trio as a reflection of our power dynamics.

Miss Rita Desjardin knows how to give Regina, Gretchen, and Karen a weeks detention showing why these three cannot fool around with her.

OMG

Yup!

The Mean Boys

@Jodie It Draco not Drago

😂😂😂

Good point 👍

Yeah, those three fit the bill perfectly! Not really sure how they managed to miss them.

@@QUARTERMASTEREMI6 because they aren't a high school clique.

@@QUARTERMASTEREMI6 Azula and Ty Lee, yes. But Mai was never the 'Blind Follower'. Her strong individuality, level of self-respect and loyalty to Zuko over Azula dismantled the Trio. Her ability to follow Azula only on her own terms makes her the anti-Gretchen Weiner of sorts.

Yes!!

Yes, I agree!

I don't know about applying the brain-brawn-heart part to love triangles though. I haven't seen many designated "Smart Guy" type characters in love triangles (using "Smart Guy" gender neutrally)

Oh you forgot the Charmed ones. I knew about the term "trio" or "trinity" from that series.

attack on titan - mikasa armin and Eren

Triangle theory of love includes three points, one of each alone a pairing of two and the combination of three, known as consummate love, consisting of intimacy, passion, and commitment.

Not really I grew up with a lot of old movies like from the 40s and seen ot

Yes! That was the original that kicked off Clueless etc

It's older than that.

The trope is a lot older an heathers, some could argue that the three evil witch’s could be the blue print

look at u miss superiority complex 😭, the trope is actually much older than that

I don't even think Karen was being dumb, she might have just been acting dumb to get along with the other two. Using her sweet nature and pretty privilege to stay on top whilst overlooking the others' meanness.

You need to see Heathers

I truly believe Regina only approached Karen to join the group becuase she would have the title of Queen B due to her beauty. She needed to keep her competition close and make sure Karen was seen as below her. Hence, the bringing in of Cady. It's quite the strategy.

I always thought the “mean girls” were Regina and Janice

Idk Gretchen clearly had a passive aggressive sneaky backstabby attitude. Like she used secrets against people

i want a bree van de kamp breakdown. shes the best character

oh my god i’d love to see this

You should look at Japan for more examples of the housewifes

I have also wondered about that for so long omg

This is such a great idea!

A person of culture❤️

Judging by the standards of the video: Azula: The Leader. Mai: The Enforcer. Ty Lee: The Face. Zuko: The fourth member that causes them to fall apart.

He is more like the typical mean girl than the typical mean guy

bUt DrAcO iS JuSt OnE pErSoN-

@@anonymousowl7099 one person with two hench men, Crabbe and Goyle. Hence he’s the Regina George of Hogwarts.

Ed, Edd and Eddy

@@princessangel821 no, that's the Freudian Trio: each character represents the Id, Ego, or Superego. There's a lot of different kinds of trios. Melody is on to it, Draco and his henchmen act like Mean Girls rather than like your typical male high school bullies. Draco is also not your average powerful man, he's not physically strong and too pretty to be intimidating. His family are demanding that he take and maintain power at the age of *eleven*, even though he is aware that he is not well equipped to do so. Hence he uses many of the same strategies that women typically employ. And like the typical Mean Girl, he's only parrotting the power dynamics that he sees around him: his mother and her two sisters.

I think jawbreaker, or some other movie had a line that said exactly that.

@@sabinagarcia6309 never heard of jawbreaker.

@Kendall It was one of the movies shown in the video

@@prettynpetty8342 it's very in line with heathers, if you liked that movie I recommend jawbreakers

@@sabinagarcia6309 It was "Jawbreaker", but the line was about the "beauty is never tarnished" trope, i.e in this case: if people see us eating, they would correctly assume that we have to shit and fart as well. That is not becoming to our beauty, so we cannot allow people to see us eating.

Let's do it

I need to do more research about this.

Thought the same

So who are the father, warrior, smith and stranger?

I was waiting for them to mention Hekate, but they didn't!

@@MsCamo2 haven't heard of that before, I'll have to look it up ^_^

And Girlfriends.

YES PLEASE! Don't forget the 4 person group in Sex Education.

And insecure

Living Single

@@priyankavaidya8797 there's no 4 person friend group in sex ed. And eric, otis, mavie and aimee dont count as they're just 2 duos connected only through maeve

Like Serena did in gossip girl

And how that affects her.

Who is Tai

@@zaryamoon4906 from Clueless, the girl that Cher made over

@@calyyygrazie8 Thanks, also Cher wasn't a mean girl or Queen bee at all, Cher was cool girl.

Yeah I love these videos but there always seem to be a pretty toxic or abusive line about relationships thrown here and there so casually it's kind of jarring

@@BioshadowX didn't they just say they felt bad for her for getting rejected? That's not necessarily the same as thinking he was bad for doing so.

@@rasmusforchhammer9557 in the same section where the thesis of the section is that mean girls are mean as a response to the choicesand actions of the people and environmemt around them, all of which are presenter as being the person's/system's fault

ma dude , people were mad at "that's nice"

@@nendu4316 He's a teenager that was caught way off guard by the mean girl saying that she loved him after only really dating him for a few weeks at most. Only a month earlier she was embarrassed to be seen with him in public now she loves him? Yeah...that's nice. 😂

I never really got the vibes that santana was the ring leader

santana is not the ring leader she just happens to be more aggressive and upfront than quinn

Nice, Mean, and In between (TV Tropes)

Nah, originally Quinn is the ringleader

I would swap Quinn and Santana Quinn is far more manipulative and under handed like Regina And she is the ‘head cheerio’

What were the differences in that movie

@@flowergirl5336 no depth to the characters

They were flashed across the screen as she mentioned the modern trio groups.

They werent mean girls were they?

@@shountypoo you have a good point. They each had their moments, but they were never mean girl like in attitude.

@@shountypoo they weren’t mean girls. but i think they could still kinda play into this trope. like they’re supposed to be protagonists but they each have qualities of a “mean girl”. for example, phoebes naivety and innocence could be similar to karen being described as “dumb” in the movie mean girls.

They were in 8:02

Why is this so true?! 👆

The three Mean girls but kourtney seems the nicest

Yep and followed by Jawbreaker. My fave.

"I prayed for the death of Heather Chandler many times and I felt bad every time I did it but I kept doing it anyway. Now I know you understood everything. Praise Jesus. Hallelujah." --Heather Duke

Yeah, but I think that Mean Girls have a bigger impact about the three mean girls even if they weren't the first ones in make it. Heathers is such a great movie, but it's sadly underrated in our generation along with Jawbreaker, meanwhile Mean Girls remain as an iconic movie and we still seeing memes and things about it all the time.

Did you not finish the video? Like?

@@stanbtsforaclearskin Agreed, Mean Girls is so iconic

Yes, I felt that the Take brushed way too easily over the fact that a sad story doesn’t excuse bullying these terrible trio’s do. Otherwise interesting video, but that felt too simple.

Yeah that seemed like maybe a writing mix-up, surely they meant Duke. MacNamara is definitely the low-status third (although neither nice nor dumb like many)

@@JC-yy8iv Yeah, I think she’s probably supposed to be the nicEST of them, because of the attempted suicide scene where she bonds with Veronica.

They even had a fourth member that destabilizes them.

Actually it IS very loosely based on one of Shakespeare’s plays - Julius Caesar.

@@mariamshalvashvili8108 We should totally just stab Caesar!

@@mariamshalvashvili8108 I love how it rhymes 💓

I love that idea. If MacBeth had just been curious about power rather than truly power-hungry. Both he and Cady disrupt the established power structure and supplant it, only to see their own relationships fall apart as that power corrupts and poisons them. Justice is only served when they are no longer the monarch at the end. Great observation!

Not "Mean Girls", but "Heathers" is, I'd say, a high school AU of "Macbeth", though not 1:1(eg. Veronica is Macbeth, Malcolm and Macduff in one, J.D. is Lady Macbeth, the witches, and to some extent, Macbeth himself in one...).

Didn't you just list 6? Or 7? I am confused

@@dreamyanon5151 main three are maiden, mother, and crone

Exactly;and behind that a lot of pervert pedophiles directors or producers in Hollywood and music industry.Lets burn all that sh*** 🔥

Now I think of it, I know why: Dutch are cheap, one less actress to pay to be mean.

@@yonathor 😂✋

@@yonathor 😂

And in Korea it’s quadruples/ fives. Pretty interesting

Crabb and Goyle!

So still a trio

@@GoaWay... yea, but with different power dynamics

@@spookyho5994 different how?🤔 I thought it was still a leader with two minions.

@@JC-yy8iv Exactly

That kind of ties in with the reason why it made me uncomfortable that The Take said that the depiction of the Mean Girl trope represented society's collective fear of female power. Maybe we just don't like to see humans create little cliques based around conformity and social control? Why jump to the conclusion that the "fear" behind that valid disgust is really the fear of female power? In being so quick to jump to that conclusion, you're essentially re-victimizing women, because the motives of anyone who judges us are automatically questioned and thus these women can do no wrong. Especially if you start from the presupposition that women have to become these Queen Bees in order to "make it." Okay, so don't "make it," then. Fuck it. Or just strike out on your own or with a group of others with a similar vision and go create your own niche. Find your own measure of success. Or work on reforming the system from within if that's what calls to you. I'm not saying that we have to be portrayed as paragons of virtue at all times in the media. But neither should we be dancing around the fact that women are human and sometimes humans do bad things, some more than others. Women having power is not necessarily inherently feminist. Especially if they wield that power against other women who are already more oppressed than they are, and men who face more oppression than they do on different axises. We don't normally include high school outcasts in that category, but why wouldn't they be?

I don’t think that bad action=bad person. You can do bad things and still be a good person and contrary you can do good things and still be a bad person (if a murderer gives money to a homeless shelter, that would be a good action but it wouldn’t make him a good person)

@@messinalyle4030 Well said!!!!

It was what I was going to comment on. Justifying a cruel action doesn't make it disappear or make the person excusable itself. You are just perpetuating the oppressor-victim system not allowing the victim to escape the situation and (in most cases) the victim has it just as hard as the oppressor or worse. Moreover, this victim has to actually add the victimizer actions to their daily basis problems. This justification of cruelty needs to stop because it doesn't even help the oppressor to rehabilitate or escape the unjust system it will just reinforce the bias it has or the identification with their role. And eventually, later in life, it will either become a worse person or will find their end to a much crueller one becoming a victim themself.

@@-Radical.Ed- This. The Take, as shown in numerous videos, doesn't seem to give two shits about these character's numerous victims. They sound more and more like the villains in these movies. Viewing everyone else as disposable NPC's to be swept under the rug for the villain's amusement.

I never really watched the show like that, but from what I can remember they operated as a Hive mindset. They liked to bounce ideas off of each other and even though I think Ashley A was the “leader” she couldn’t really do much without the consensus of the others. It’s been a while though so I could be totally wrong.

I guess there is another combination, made by four women, which is alo very prevalent in culture. Such as Ashleys, from 'Recess', and the four main characters of 'Sex and the city', 'Desperate Housewifes' or 'Devious maids'. But, as the video says, this formation is more complex, with several relationships happening at the same time. Anyway, I think that, when four, there's always a 'main character', and the other three gravitate around her and give insight about some of the main character's traits. See Ashley A, Carrie, Sussan and Marisol, for each of the aforementioned shows.

Yes, but they work as a team and they were based off the Heathers.

Recess should have a freaking continuation in Mid School !

I kinda feel like clusters of three are very common in reality. I was also in the "weird girls" trio. We weren't all in one category--one was an artsy goth girl, one was a not goth artsy girl, and I was the science nerd. Our one common characteristic was that we'd played clarinet together in sixth and seventh grade.

I was in a clique sadly the girls were pretty so I guess I got chosen for the same I guess I was the enforcer not a follower but I got in your face

If I had to place myself during Middle School...the geeks/nerdy group. Either too Skinny or too fat, not very good looking, no contact with girls, and just into games and anime . This was back in 2012 or so.

@@Nightriser271828the weird girls so the charmed ones ?

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They change the aesthetic of anyone who comes in contact with them

The Take are big fans of the Kardashians.

The make anti capitalist/extreme wealth is bad videos, but then turn around a do puff pieces on why we should ADMIRE the Kardashians. I generally love The Take but sometimes...

@@Whackadoo1 lmao everybody who disagrees with u isn't wrong or a bad person this is what u americans have a hard time accepting bye

Only Kourtney seemed nice

I love that movie

Little Mix. Destiny’s Child. Dream girls. Yeah, they all had 4 members at one point but drama made them into the default 3. History repeats itself.

Usually there are 2 alphas and a schism, which makes people pick sides. They either split or become a trio

Even Girlfriends! Maya came in and then Toni left a few years later

As bigger the group as less centralized the power becomes.

I wonder if this why Neville do t become part of the regular group in Harry Potter. At the other hand, i feel the duo dinamic is very interesting too, maybe because I am watching Hunter x hunter, and the friendship of Gon and Kirua is awesome, their rivality made them stronger. In Harry Potter i feel Ron and Harry are their own group, Hermione it's more like a saint that it's to give support . When Harry have to hang exclusively with her at book 4 it was annoying for him and she have to put whit his bad humor, just to be paid with Harry picking Ron's side when she date Viktor (the narrator say that Harry knew she was right, but that he was not open to lose Ron again).

OMG yes! I've been saying all of these years that Va'Shaundya O'Nostrils is like the Regina George of reality T.V.She can't stand when another woman is rich,independent,married or is prettier than her and her minions make sure to keep the "collective" as exclusive as possible.Once Evilyn and Va'Shaundya don't like you,then it's curtains for you.

But Gretchen wouldn’t manipulate the trio while Blair Waldorf threatened to expose their secrets to gossip girl .

Eh what is it like squid games haven’t watched that one either

I’ve heard it being called this generations Degrassi is that true

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@@kawaiipanda4013 way better...Sex Education is MUCH more aware that these teenagers are KIDS. Do they handle adult themes? Absolutely. But not in the soapy, "where-the-hell-are-these-children's-parents" kinda way. It treats teenage problems with just the right note.

@@raelindenberg3329 I think you misunderstood degrassi but thanks for the suggestion

life iiiiis a class system, smh

Same but I was a solo mean girl, but I wasn’t very popular. I was like Janis in high school

Same

I wish the writers did better at developing her character.