Girls and bullying

[Sojourner]

So there was a bit this morning on the today show about girls and bullying, and they're talking about this like it's a "new" phenomenon, as if girls have never been mean and cutting to one another.

I have personally experienced or witnessed every one of the rude behaviors detailed in the piece during my own child/teenhood, with the exception of mean IMs/e-mails/text messages (didn't have that stuff when I was a kid). It's just so weird that they're saying this stuff is "new" or "different" behavior ... where have these people [i]been[/i]?

[Carrie]

This isn't new behavior at all. All they have to do is talk to anyone who ever went to middle school.

[Sojourner]

Exactly. I just don't see why all the hype now.

[Carrie]

A slow news day perhaps?

Personally, I think girls bully worse than boys. Boys fight it out and its over. Girls drag out their bullying forever and can be just plain vicious.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='Carrie' date='Dec 29 2005, 11:04 AM']A slow news day perhaps?

Personally, I think girls bully worse than boys.  Boys fight it out and its over.  Girls drag out their bullying forever and can be just plain vicious.
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Exactly. Girls are so much more vindictive as a group. We can be pretty cruel.

[franciscanheart]

we're much more intelligent and therefore capable of a higher degree of cruelty.

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='hugheyforlife' date='Dec 29 2005, 10:11 AM']we're much more intelligent and therefore capable of a higher degree of cruelty.
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nu-uh. We smart and all and can beat you up.

[Jaime]

Yes you can all be quite cruel



*sniff*

[Deeds]

Yeah, I'd agree with the above. During my childhood, I was on the receiving end of a few bullying incidents by both boys and girls and getting tripped up or pushed by boys was nothing compared with the emotional cruelty that girls can inflict.

[Carrie]

[quote name='hot stuff' date='Dec 29 2005, 11:14 AM']Yes you can all be quite cruel
*sniff*
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[Carrie]

[quote name='hugheyforlife' date='Dec 29 2005, 11:11 AM']we're much more intelligent and therefore capable of a higher degree of cruelty.
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[Jaime]

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That's a group of girl smilies isn't it?

[Brother Adam]

When I was in 5th grade a bunch of african american girls decided they were going ot beat me up. I ran up one of the playground equiment steel structures (space ship type object). One of the girls started climbing it while the rest waited on the ground below. I jumped off past the girls and ran like hell into the school building.

I knew better then, and know better now than to mess with girls.

[Carrie]

[quote name='hot stuff' date='Dec 29 2005, 11:17 AM']That's a group of girl smilies isn't it?
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No, you're the second from right. The rest of them are Abby, Hughey, and I. We won't bully you.

That's HSmom's job.

[Carrie]

I've never been bullied by a boy in school or physically bullied by girls.