Girls and bullying

I have just read something so awesome (and yet so depressingly obvious) that I felt I should share it with you: a post on Tiger Beatdown about, among other things, girls and bullying.

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I should reiterate the qualification that Sady Doyle, the blogger, begins this post with: 'If we’re talking about gender, we’re (hopefully) not trying to talk about behaviors or traits that every single member of each gender shares to exactly the same degree and in the same way. Because there are none of those! What we are talking about, though, are behaviors that are widespread within each group, including some differences between the two groups. '

Sadly, the stuff behind the cut really chimes with my own experience as a child (the one and only time I went to a counsellor, aged 12, she said to me 'Girls tend to want everyone to be average, and the same, and they'll bully anyone who steps out of those boundaries'). How depressing.

Girls and bullying

I have just read something so awesome (and yet so depressingly obvious) that I felt I should share it with you: a post on Tiger Beatdown about, among other things, girls and bullying.

( Sample awesomeness: )

I should reiterate the qualification that Sady Doyle, the blogger, begins this post with: 'If we’re talking about gender, we’re (hopefully) not trying to talk about behaviors or traits that every single member of each gender shares to exactly the same degree and in the same way. Because there are none of those! What we are talking about, though, are behaviors that are widespread within each group, including some differences between the two groups. '

Sadly, the stuff behind the cut really chimes with my own experience as a child (the one and only time I went to a counsellor, aged 12, she said to me 'Girls tend to want everyone to be average, and the same, and they'll bully anyone who steps out of those boundaries'). How depressing.