America's "mean girl" culture problem is something I've mostly observed but not written much about, partly out of exasperation and partly due to the fact that there are people, like my RedState colleague Brandon Morse, who have done so well at articulating it that I didn't have much to add to it.
While not all of it is politically motivated, much of it is (with the full encouragement of the lamestream media, I should note), and there is a long list of examples we've documented here of catty leftist women trying to demean conservative women based almost entirely on their looks, despite the fact that every single Republican woman they picked on was beautiful inside and out.
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Unfortunately, Erika Kirk, who is still grieving the September 2025 assassination of her husband, Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, remains a frequent target of the hateful leftist Mean Girl Brigade, despite conducting herself with the utmost grace and dignity in the aftermath of one of the most disturbing incidents in American political history.
She's been cruelly mocked for her style and for her atttempts to carry on her husband's legacy, she's disgustingly had to address unfounded allegations spread by Candace Owens of a TPUSA conspiracy to kill her husband, she's been critiqued for allegedly not acting like a "proper" grieving widow, and she's been subjected to numerous death threats, to the point she's had to back out of some of the events TPUSA had on the schedule.
Though some of the harassment has come from men, the lion's share of it has come from women who should damned well know better.
But on Saturday night, Mrs. Kirk defied ill-meaning haters and stepped out to attend the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (WHCD).
She looked fabulous and radiant:
Erika Kirk attended the Fox News VIP party with commentator Lawrence Jones before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
— AF Post (@AFpost) April 26, 2026
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/0xqelUQGFW
We all know what happened later that night. Shots rang out. Soon after, FBI Director Kash Patel found Mrs. Kirk and helped her exit the room, and then made sure she was escorted safely out the door. She was seen in one video clip crying, saying she just wanted to go home.
But did the Mean Girl Brigade let up? Nope. Keep in mind, these tweets were published AFTER the attempted assassinations of President Trump and members of his cabinet, a horrifying turn of events that undoubtedly was deeply triggering to Erika Kirk:
erika kirk is wearing an embellished flutter-sleeve tulle gown from theia w a white leather gucci dionysus (d-tier gucci bag). not only could this outfit could be found on a 70yo woman but also this dress is currently in the clearance section at saks fifth avenue … yikes https://t.co/CgUC3t1336 pic.twitter.com/5JfunnT8lX
— ella devi (@ellad3vi) April 26, 2026
Erika Kirk in a wedding dress melodramatically looking for Vance for comfort. pic.twitter.com/R9UmbpxrdY
— 💕 Brittany Belle 💕 (@BrittanyinTexas) April 26, 2026
Kirk was not the only Republican woman from the dinner who was on the Mean Girl Brigade's radar, either:
I don't know why you thought people might think it's funny. It's awesome and totally relatable--can we just be less mean girl for like five minutes? https://t.co/0BUDPJ1cOT
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) April 27, 2026
The Daily Mail even hopped on board and amplified the petty swipe:
Pete Hegseth's wife sparks a frenzy by wearing 'Temu dress' to the White House Correspondents Dinner https://t.co/m1RlUzS1PY
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) April 27, 2026
Is paying a low price for a fabulous dress a bad thing? Of course not. In fact, normalizing budget-conscious shopping is actually a good thing. But we know the point of the tweet and others like it was to insinuate conservative women are cheap and tacky and not above (allegedly) buying Chinese-made goods (designs that were likely stolen) to make themselves look good.
Have a lot of us women been critical of another woman's looks/fashion choices? Of course, we have been. But a lot of it is in how you make the criticism and at who its directed, and how it is directed. Even back in my younger years, when I would get a bit critical myself from time to time, I still tried to be cautious about who I was criticizing and how I did it. Wasn't perfect, of course, but you get the point.
Am I going to pile on a widow's fashion choices just because I can? No. In fact, the vast majority of my criticisms of other women from a fashion/looks standpoint have been offline, primarily because it's been a comment made in passing and not worthy of public consumption. Further, my fashion critiques aren't meant to be a "political statement."
Plus, I've been on the receiving end myself of the hateful leftist Mean Girl Brigade's taunts on social media back before it was cool to be a Mean Girl, and while I've learned to mostly ignore it and laugh at it at this point, I admit that at the time, it did not feel good.
There is a larger point here in how women truly can be their own worst enemies in how they conduct themselves and treat each other. Thankfully, you don't see this a lot from conservative women towards leftist women. But it's almost become a rite of passage on the left to act this way - part and parcel of a deeper resentment towards women on the right who like to look nice and take care of themselves, to be sure. It says a lot about these leftist women, with none of it being good.
