the overachiever knows MLA format better than anyone else, the one with guy friends (because trading blowies for cheap beer is so much fun!) can save you from drama overdose, the gossiper is funny and entertaining, everyone knows what it's like to need a drink (granted, there are potential health risks that merit concern, not scorn), and everyone is the drama queen a few days a month

(anyone else fake pms to justify mourning a bad grade with ben and jerry? …just me? that's cool.)

i don't care if i have to schedule a week in advance to see the overachiever for a half-hour coffee break, or if one girl likes having friends-with-benefits relationships because her good friends and good (can i use another word beginning with f? you know what i mean) don't always coincide, or even if one of them has weekly panic attacks. whether we've swapped secrets or just spend sunday brunches piecing together the night before, how someone relates to you and whether or not they care enough to accept your flaws matters more than if someone else calls them a nerd, jock, princess, basketcase, criminal… getting stabbed in the back can be a possibility, but i think most of us have gotten better at avoiding that kind of "friend" since middle school graduated.

this article claims to be calling out the backstabbery of different types of girls – whether they pick booze, boys, or their GPA over their besties – by overstating the flaws of these caricatured personality types. i mean, i kind of thought i trusted my girlfriends, but i guess if this writer is right i'll have to start trading lapdances for love over in the boys' dorms.

Would you stop hanging out with someone because they gossip or hang out with guys? I hope not.

Maybe you should, I don't know, NOT STEREOTYPE PEOPLE when you first meet them. If you possibly had an interest in becoming friends with them you'd realize that everyone has flaws and perks and not just one or the other. Also every girl is unique. Not every overachiever is going to pencil you in for only 5 min or not every gossip spends their entire day talking about people (ladies, we all gossip and you're lying if you say you never have), I've never heard of a girl who gives guys sexual favors to hang out with them, most of the time that's a slut and men only go find her when they need a little booty. Partyheads aren't bad people provided you don't fall into their lifestyle and yeah some girls make a big deal over little things, but that's part of who they are so deal with it.

Instead of focusing on stereotypes maybe you should write an article on how to deal with a friend who gossips, or a friend who parties too much instead of just saying to avoid them