Eighth Grade Boys and Alpha Girls
Merrill Markoe once observed that the world is run by eighth grade boys. Everyone I have ever mentioned this theory too just nods and says, 'That explains so much!'
The Rittenhouse Review says that journalists are like the Alpha girls from high school (actually some of them are Alpha girls and many of them are wannabe Alpha girls). Alpha girls are the ones who run everything--who gets to be 'in,' who gets to be 'out,' who gets picked on and who gets picked. Alpha girls and Beta girls hate Al Gore for reasons I still don't completely understand, but which seem to have something to do with status and fitting in and making people who aren't Al Gore happy.