For research purposes, I'd like recommendations for stories in which schoolgirls bullying each other is a feature. Nothing over the top, I'm not interested in anything with life-threatening consequences.
Thanks, AJ
For research purposes, I'd like recommendations for stories in which schoolgirls bullying each other is a feature. Nothing over the top, I'm not interested in anything with life-threatening consequences.
Thanks, AJ
In Bar Bar's "Bec" stories, Bec is the victim of some girl to girl bullying. (She's locked in a closet and left there all day). If you're writing one, I'd like to read it. I read an article more than a year ago that stated that girl-girl bullying is now more common than guy-guy bullying because schools have concentrated on the latter while pretty much ignoring the former. I guess they think girls just don't act that way. (I'll look for the article but it's been a while since I read it and may be long gone!)
In Bar Bar's "Bec" stories, Bec is the victim of some girl to girl bullying.
Thanks. I've read it. Great story, but I'm not sure how realistic the bullying is.
'Summer Lake' by Ekalise (in progress) is pretty good too.
Aroslav's 'Team Manager' has some girl/girl bullying, as a minor theme but again I'm not sure how realistic it is.
girl-girl bullying is now more common than guy-guy
Not intending to upstage that, but I've seen it stated a few times, along with the sentiment that girl-girl bullying is more mental than physical.
If you're writing one
Not at the moment, sadly. I was just doing some background reading. I had an idea for a story with elements in common with Thornefoot's 'Retribution'.
AJ
In Bar Bar's "Bec" stories, Bec is the victim of some girl to girl bullying.
Thanks. I've read it. Great story, but I'm not sure how realistic the bullying is.
FYI. The "locked in a closet" was based on a real incident. The ropes were added by me.
I read an article more than a year ago that stated that girl-girl bullying is now more common than guy-guy bullying because schools have concentrated on the latter while pretty much ignoring the former.
I'm teaching vocational skills at a local high school, and see that happening daily. The girls are every bit and often more so brutal about it than the boys. There is another angle not mentioned in your post. Male teachers are instructed not to intervene unless outright violence is happening. They are to record names, events, and times to pass on. The girls in question have taken to making false accusations towards the male teachers if they intervene, so the schools answer is to instruct us as mentioned in the previous sentence.
How and where these little brats learned to be so cruel just befuddles me.
That is so damn sad. It would suck for you but full time camera coverage and/or bodycams might be needed to keep them honest and under control. Stupid toxic world that is developing, and back up by such weak minds who take pride in remaining ignorant.
If I'm on school property, I have a bodycam on for just those reasons.
I think it's telling that the usual suspects recognize what the bodycam is.
It's absolutely nothing new.
Girls have always been more vile, cruel and inventive in torment than guys.
Horror stories about Soviet orphanages... induced suicides and murders between peers were all girls doing.
Gyus can be brutal, but usually are simpler. Mostly it's just because they can, and done for laughs on another's expense. They may break some bones by accident, but it's rarely intentionally. Sure, pure sadists happen, as do long lasting irrational hatred. Those would invent some "higer" cause, even if dishonest or delusional, but the bully would believe it themselves more often than not.
And usually there would be clear distinction between bullies and victims, and while some smart guys can be assholes, the typical habitual bully leader would be rather an imbecile who knows no better.
For girls part of the game is that the smart and socially successful girls can be as crazy cruel, and tables can be turned at anytime if they slip and lose control, and there's almost always rather narrowly definable personal cause and goals to be met.