It is safe to say everyone has seen the movie "Mean Girls". Being younger that was our only interpretation of Girl World. Being older and living in actual Girl World is awful. In my Mom’s words, “girls are assholes.” Every day is a constant competition for no reason. Who can get the guy? Whose butt looks bigger? Who can keep the attention on themselves longest? Why do these things even matter!? Is it primal female instinct or is it just being a petty insecure little bitch? Naturally all I have ever wanted was to have a best-girlfriend, but in Girl World that is easier said than done.

I’ve thought a lot of girls were truly my friend but their actions proved me wrong. If I like a boy and I tell my girlfriend I like a boy, she shouldn’t go out of her way to be all over him in front of me, she shouldn’t be on him at all actually. She shouldn’t tell my secrets or try to outdo me. She shouldn’t pick a boy over me or let his abusiveness come between us. She shouldn’t give up on me. She shouldn’t make me doubt myself or feel less.

I have a reputation for being a bitch, but when it comes to Girl World I have to be one in order to keep my sanity and get by. Growing up it hurt but it wasn’t a surprise that boys would eventually break my heart. It hurts so much more getting your heart broken from a girlfriend because you don’t expect that betrayal. You don’t expect to turn your head and see her locking onto the guy she knows you’ve been dreaming about.

You don’t expect her to hide things from you. What approach does one take in either of these cases? Do you confront her and get labeled a bitch like me? Or do you be sneaky and fight back in petty low key ways? Has your life suddenly become an episode of "One Tree Hill" or "Gossip Girl" (Let’s be honest, even Serena betrayed her best friend Blair like 50 million times and then there is Peyton who went behind Brooke's back and took her boyfriend while they were best friends) Yes, sadly this is Girl World for many young girls and twenty something year olds. The worst part is you get sucked into it and there really is no going back. If you seriously have a girlfriend who has not crossed you over in Girl World than you’re the real winner because for the rest of us it hasn’t been that easy.

My advice? Get some waterproof mascara, be ready to call your Mom because she’ll know what to say, put on some heels so you stand a little taller, get out the lipstick to color your lips, and get ready for war.