Most liberals these days are stereotypical mean girls. For readers unfamiliar with the classic film Mean Girls (2004), starring Lindsay Lohan, a mean girl is typically a young woman who engages in manipulation, bullying, and gossip to gain social status and power within a friend group or broader community.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a prime example. Riley Gaines, a woman who gained international attention for being forced to compete against a male in college swimming and now advocates on behalf of other female athletes, is currently in a digital fight with the sitting congresswoman. AOC scoffed at Gaines’ request for a debate via X, responding, “I would like to challenge this person to get a real job.”
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AOC’s power circle is on the internet, and she loves to belittle her fellow women there, too. (So much for “women supporting women”!)
The battle started over the weekend when Gaines posted an image showing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), AOC, and socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani palling it up at an event. Gaines said these politicians are destroying the country from within.
What was a sitting congresswoman’s response to such political, not personal, criticism? AOC told Gaines, “Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster, you wouldn’t have come in fifth.”
Gaines then went on Laura Ingraham’s show on Fox News and said she would love to debate the congresswoman about transgender competitors in women’s sports. AOC responded via X, saying, “I would like to challenge this person to get a job.”
This is ironic, considering Gaines has a college education, was a 12-time NCAA All-American, was invited to the U.S. Olympic qualifier, and is a published author and frequent speaker, in addition to being a married mother. AOC’s resume? She was a bartender and then a politician. She literally brags about it.
This is all normal for us conservative women, though. We’re used to not being allowed into the “in crowd” consisting of liberal mean girls. Not all mean girls on the left are women, however. Some are men. And no, I’m not talking about transgender men. Actor Pedro Pascal, known for his love of inappropriately touching his costars, has made public comments about what he deems bigots on the Right.
“A world without trans people has never existed and never will,” the Mandalorian and Materialists actor posted on his Instagram. In the comments, he continued his thoughts on the issue: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.”
The thing is, like many leftist talking points, this is factually untrue. I personally have been discussing this issue for almost 10 years on college campuses and have never said that transgender people don’t have a right to exist. I’m struggling to find any prominent conservative who has either. Riley Gaines, concerned players, parents, and the majority of the American public just want males who identify as females not to have a competitive and physically dangerous advantage over girls in sports.
We want there to be a space for transgender people to exist that is separate from the gym locker rooms and school bathrooms where our daughters change and shower. We don’t mind transgender people existing. But we don’t want our 12-year-olds being told that a male has a “custom coochie” and they just have to deal with it.
This discrimination against girls and women who speak up for others is nothing new on the Left. If you do not kowtow to left-wingers’ exact beliefs on every single issue, then you are cast out.
This was abundantly clear last week in my home state of California, when Sophia Lorey, a podcast host and outreach director for the California Family Council, attended a high school sporting event where grown women were flipping off and booing young girls.
Why? Because two young ladies on a high school volleyball team stepped out of a recent game due to their desire not to compete against a biological male. Their coach refused to let them sit on the bench with their fellow teammates. Lorey and a small group of female athletes who have had similar experiences were there to show support.
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Lorey’s Instagram posts show middle-aged white women booing, chanting, and flipping off the young players for their stance. So much for “their truth” and ability to have bodily autonomy and “just say no” in a situation that makes them feel unsafe and uncomfortable.
The mean girls on the Left have always existed and always will. We can’t let them bully us into silence.
Elisha Krauss is a conservative commentator and speaker who resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and their four children. She is an advocate for women’s rights, school choice, and smaller government.