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At Rockridge High School, socially awkward and deeply unpopular seniors PJ and Josie are desperate to lose their virginities before graduation, specifically to the school’s star cheerleaders, Brittanny and Isabel. During an altercation with the arrogant football star Jeff, PJ and Josie accidentally injure him with a car. To cover their tracks and avoid severe disciplinary action or jail, they lie to the principal, claiming they were driving to the site of a newly formed, student-led self-defense club designed to empower young women.Seizing the opportunity to impress their crushes, the duo officially found the club, recruiting Brittany and Isabel as their first members. Their true motivation is purely predatory: to get close to the cheerleaders and orchestrate situations where they might hook up. However, the club quickly spirals out of their control as a massive wave of cynical, angry female students joins, looking for genuine ways to protect themselves in a hyper-machistic school environment dominated by the abusive football team.PJ and Josie are woefully unqualified to teach any form of combat. Instead of teaching self-defense, their chaotic meetings quickly devolve into aggressive fighting drills, trust exercises, and general teenage angst, overseen by their equally apathetic and eccentric faculty advisor, Mr. G. Despite the blatant lie at its core, the club unexpectedly fosters genuine solidarity among the outcast girls, who begin bonding over their shared frustrations with the high school social hierarchy.As the football team grows increasingly hostile toward the rising feminist presence on campus, the stakes escalate dramatically. Jeff plots to destroy the club to protect his fragile ego and athletic dominance. Meanwhile, PJ and Josie struggle to maintain their elaborate web of lies as the school's homecoming game approaches. Isabel begins to see through PJ's manipulative charm, while Josie develops real feelings for Brittany, complicating their purely carnal agenda.The climax culminates on the night of the big game. The football team stages a violent retaliation, kidnapping the school mascot and framing the self-defense club. PJ and Josie lead their ragtag group of fierce, battered, and heavily painted female members on a daring rescue and revenge mission. Bursting into the stadium, the club engages in an all-out, absurdly brutal and bloody brawl with the football team. Through sheer chaotic force and unexpected unity, the girls utterly humiliate the players on live television. In the aftermath, PJ and Josie are exposed as liars, but their actions have inadvertently sparked a massive cultural shift in the school. Though they fail to secure their original romantic targets in the traditional sense, the girls graduate having found genuine empowerment, unexpected notoriety, and a fierce, unbreakable bond of female friendship that transcends their initial, desperate desperation for teenage hookups.