Yes, the musical version is happening…
The joke is:
None of the teens in Heathers really commit suicide.
The protagonists kill their enemies and stage the crimes to look like suicides, because (as they’ve learned at school and from the culture at large) killing yourself is this week’s “cool” thing to do, which means the authorities won’t investigate any further.
Then these beautiful alpha dead kids are glowingly eulogized, so sure enough, bullied, beta kids start attempting suicide, too — and are duly mocked for “trying to be popular.”
Get it? If Heathers is still relevant, it’s because victims are the new heroes.
More from my site
Brigitte Gabriel’s grassroots activist training conferences & webcasts
Mick Jones of The Clash somehow turns 60 and I’ll post whatever I want on my goddamn blog- Bwa ha ha haaaaah!
- ‘A black female friend and I once discussed how our historically unemployed (lazy) relatives often claimed that we were rich simply because we had things that they did not’