Issue date: 4/22/09 Section: Editor Columns

Take for example, the storyline about a new, young, female teacher who gets a job at Constance Billard, the high school that many of the characters attend. Rachel Carr ruins Blair's chances of getting into Yale, so Blair takes it upon herself to ruin Carr's teaching career at Constance Billard.

To Blair, this is war. Except this war, she says, "will be different. I need to wait for my moment, and then I'm going black-ops. Off the radar. No accountability. This war I'm gonna win."
And win she does; Carr loses her job after Blair posts on "Gossip Girl" that the teacher had an affair with a student.

As Lily Bart so smartly proclaims in The House of Mirth, "The truth about any girl is once she's talked about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks."

With only a few episodes left this season, I can't wait to see who Blair's next victim might be. One thing is for certain-in both Gossip Girl and The House of Mirth, the war for popularity is one only a bad girl can win-and I wouldn't want it any other way.

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