‘Mean Girls’: Familiar but still pretty fetch – for lack of a better word

It’s been a long, strange trip for the smart, real-world ideas behind Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees and Wannabes, the 2002 parenting book about how to deal with difficult teenage daughters that is best known as the inspiration for the hit 2004 movie Mean Girls.

Hidden inside a comedy of cultural anthropology that was both silly and sardonic, courtesy of screenwriter Tina Fey, they’ve survived, more or