Girl bullies don't leave black eyes, just agony

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | April 10, 2002 | Jane Elizabeth

[buzzyboop]

ERIE -- To most adults, the typical school bully is the beefy kid who knocks the books out of the hands of the bespectacled ninth-grader in the hallway, or the hulking football player who tosses the swim team member into the shower stall.

[buzzyboop]

The next generation of feminazis in training....

[Dante3]

Having school uniforms would help at least some. Also, sometimes the school adminstration & a few teachers cater to female bullies and jocks. Some school even have gym classes where students chose teams and those chose last are ridiculed.

[CatoRenasci]

The female of every species is the cruelest.

[AppyPappy]

Yup. I thought having a daughter was going to be easy. Girls are vicious. My daughter has not problem standing up to the boys. The girls are a different matter. If they find any flaw, they exploit it. We've been lucky but some girls haven't been that fortunate.

Women! Sheesh!

[elk]

Who gives these girls all this power? Where are the parents to whom bully victims can go to for solace? Why should these peers have this much influence? I often wonder why people sometimes never seem to leave high school.

I went to a public high school, and I viewed that kind of behavior as pitiful - demonstrating the void in character of the bully more than anything else.

Anyhow, long before your child is turning to depression, suicide, drugs or what-have-you, due to a bully, one should evaluate some things: why hasn't your child told you about this? Is public high school anything more than a tax-subsidized dating center (not my original concept, but a nifty one, eh)? Is the high school really helping your child to get the education she needs to function as a productive adult?

Studies and projects like these often lead to more regulations, more policies, more power in the hands of the educrats. Where are the parents in all this?

[Destructor]

Oh, the unbearable heartache of being called names! When I was in the 5th grade I was smaller than the other boys. I got my ass kicked about every other day after school. I used to run home from school. In the 6th grade I started taking Martial Arts classes. In the 8th grade I started lifting weights, and hit a growing spurt. I was now average height, and pretty stout, and the other boys left me alone!

Sorry, but it's hard to sympathize with this feminine non-sense.

[jaq]

The title of this article says it all. This whole article is crap. I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs.
We're all forced to deal with different types of people we meet in life. Kids should be no different. The idea that they're so "tramatized" by this that they can't speak about it years later is so "Oprah Winfreyish."
Put these kids to work. That'll keep them busy so they don't have so much time to wring their hands in self-pity. And, send the "touchy-feely" groups who support this nonsense with them.

[billybudd]

How would school uniforms help any? Uniforms mandate conformity, and makes it more likely that each kid will value the opinions of others because they will be magnified as a representation of the entire uniformed group. Uniforms would hurt individuality and individual thinking, if anything. A school isn't a military.

[Clemenza]

Also, sometimes the school adminstration & a few teachers cater to female bullies and jocks. Some school even have gym classes where students chose teams and those chose last are ridiculed.

Yeah, my Elementary School experience s-cked too. The best was how administration "favored" kids who were politically "connected."

[Clemenza]

Is public high school anything more than a tax-subsidized dating center (not my original concept, but a nifty one, eh)?

I went to public school from K-8 and then went to a private high school by choice. I found that the best way to avoid such cliques is to do well enough to get into the honors program. I tended to find the jocks and most of the "lifestyle obsessed" were rarely in such classes.

[GovernmentShrinker]

It would also help if teachers were still allowed to shame students into humility when appropriate. Nowadays, the teacher would probably get sued by the bully's parents if she told the girl off in front of the class and quizzed her on the day's lesson to expose her lack of academic achievement. And the union probably wouldn't back the teacher since teachers are supposed to be constantly building up students' "self-esteem".

[Clemenza]

Uniforms help because they get rid of the style conscious nonsense that makes some adults so overbearing. Besides, its cheaper to pay for uniforms than it is to go to the mall with little Cameron and Caitlin (or whatever annoying yuppie name people are giving their kids these days) and spend hundreds if not thousands on the latest "look."

[tahiti]

"...some of whom described bullying so severe that they developed ulcers and eating disorders, transferred to other schools, used drugs, or became depressed or suicidal and underwent psychological counseling well into their adult years.

And in the 21st century, they use technology as a weapon. Three-way calling, for instance, is wildly popular among younger girls,

"Instant messaging" or IM -- an Internet service in which several people can have a real-time conversation simultaneously -- also is epidemic in the world of girl-bullies."

Sounds like it is time to save the girls and have federal legislation banning the use of this technology by minors.

If these weapons are not "locked up" in the home and are used by a minor, the parents or adults of that home will be charged with a felony.

You have to understand it is the technology that causes this destructive bullying by girls, just as a gun in the house causes children to get shot.

[jaq]

In Pennsylvania, a bill making its way through the state Legislature would mandate anti-bullying policies in all the state's public schools.

Heads-up, Pennsylvania, homosexuals are promoting their "education" agenda through these "anti-bullying" policies, and that's really all this article is about. (1) Create sympathy for the poor victim. (2) Introduce legislation to prevent bullying. (3) Educate children about what bullying is, thus introducing the "fact" that just because someone's different, doesn't mean you can "bully" him.
Different includes homosexuals, which is how California ended up teaching about homosexuals to 7-year-olds. The book is called "Cooties." Parents have had to hire attorneys to stop the school from teaching this crap to their kids without offering the parents a change to "opt out" of the program.
Of course, the school "overlooked," "forgot," etc. that little rule about "informing the parents." And, in an earlier post, I learned that CA doesn't allow home schooling, which really surprises me. So, you're forced to send your children to a school that teaches this stuff. It doesn't stop with CA or 7-year-olds. See GLSEN re "education" on the east coast.
Sorry to carry on, but this is what I see anymore when articles like this run in newspapers. It's no different than when Hollywood makes a movie re a social issue. Take abortion, for example. A few movies about anti-abortionists killing doctors, etc. are all it takes to give pro-life followers a black eye.

[biblewonk]

Bump for my 15 year old.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

How would school uniforms help any?

It would stop kids from making fun of each other's clothes, or being envious of them.

[AppyPappy]

And it keeps the school from dealing with girls dressing like whores and their parents defending it.

[Siouxz]

I tell ya, the whole article is a bunch of feminazi, touchy-feely psychobabble, but I DID go through this all through school, and it really, really sucked.

It took me until after I got out of college to realize that I was not only very smart, but quite the hottie (not hot anymore, tho.).

Girls can really do a lot of damage to other girls. But going to classes to learn about it? It's just a part of life. If the school administrators would show some stones, they could stop a lot of it. But this is just human nature. The feminists have succeeded in feminizing boys; what is it they're doing here with the girls?