![]() The less confident fall under the sway of more powerful forces. ![]() Locked away behind bedroom doors, secure in locker rooms, or cruising in their cars, these girls turn what might seem like “safe spaces” into snake pits where they jab each other’s soft spots and feel around for weakness. The cultishness of teen-girl friendship is an obsession of Abbott’s fiction. And all this happens among girls who describe themselves as friends. They let each other plummet to the ground from cheerleading pyramids they encourage one another to “gag themselves pea-shoot thin” they spread photos of each other having sex. ![]() They’re also the perpetrators-of ugliness, bullying, jealousy, abuse, self-harm, slander. But teenage girls aren’t merely victims in Abbott’s work, like in some sort of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit plot turned After School Special. ![]()
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