Waves of controversy ensue, as the girls (and some of the boys) begin to take a stand.
Seeing this, and inspired by her mother’s feminist protest past, Vivian devises a mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-anymore protest newsletter entitled Moxie, which she anonymously distributes among the school. She complains to the apathetic school principal (Marcia Gay Harden), who essentially tells her to suck it up and kowtow to the internalised misogyny inherent within the school.
