“There’s a scene in the 2004 movie Mean Girls in which
the most popular girl in the film’s fictional high school finds out
that a friend who now is a fast-rising social rival plans to throw
a party without inviting her.“‘Who does she think she is?’ sniffs the suddenly-threatened
clique leader–or ‘Queen Bee,’ in the movie’s parlance. ‘I, like,
‘invented’ her, you know what I mean…?'”