Girls three times more likely to be
victims of cyberbullying at school: survey
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/29/2019 2:44:25 PM
Seattle—Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online. The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen said she contemplated suicide. Once she got help, she decided to limit her time on social media. It helps to take a break from it for perspective, said Whalen, now a 19-year-old college student in Utah. There’s a rise in cyberbullying nationwide, with three times as many girls reporting being harassed online or by text message than boys,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross 7/29/2019 3:07:44 PM (No. 137226)
They did not want to know that girls were five times as guilty of initiating the cyberbullying.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
saguni 7/29/2019 3:13:25 PM (No. 137230)
I worry so for my granddaughter, she was born with a cleft lip and has had a few of the necessary surgeries. The cleft affected her pituitary, so she has grown more slowly, she has been taking human growth hormone shots and has gained almost 3 inches, but still only comes up to her friend's shoulders. The last surgery transplanted bone from a hip to create a palate, but it left her nose flattened.
Last year, some classmates were calling her a "dwarf" and as she goes into middle school I fear the taunts will get worse.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
shalimar 7/29/2019 3:51:07 PM (No. 137266)
Perhaps the average boy has a different concept of what constitutes harassment than the average girl?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Cindiana 7/29/2019 4:19:47 PM (No. 137278)
So much for Sisterhood. I doubt there is even one female who was not the target of a "Mean Girl".
I'll never forget one of our daughters having a terrible time with a brat in her 5th grade class who decided to razz her about a certain hairclip. This was nothing even close to the heartache #4 relates. I simply offer it as illustration of how catty and nasty girls can be.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/29/2019 4:38:07 PM (No. 137292)
So, should Amish Privilege, should make them feel even more guilty then White Guy Privilege? It’s hard to keep up. Oops. Used they used a no-no pronoun again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ming 7/29/2019 4:43:20 PM (No. 137298)
The movie isn't called 'Mean Girls' for nothing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ocho reales 7/29/2019 4:53:58 PM (No. 137309)
Social media did not exist when I was in high school. I think this form of information dissemination does more harm than good. I don't use social media of any type even now. Unfortunately bullying has always been a part of school life. Social media, however, makes the bullying more pervasive.
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Many things at work here.
Women and girls can be much meaner than men. Managers that I have talked to say that they would rather hire men than women. Too much drama and mean spiritedness is a common complaint.
Kids have no coping mechanisms today. Parents won’t tell the little darlings no so they don’t know how to deal with any kind of adversity. So if someone is mean, they can’t deal with it.
I’m dating a woman who has 3 grandkids. The middle child is a boy. He rarely talks and we believe he has some type of speech disorder. He wants to talk but he is sometimes unable to form the words. His dad is so worried that he will be bullied. His grandmother says the school will protect him or he will be taught how to use his fists. Bullies need to be taught not to bully. I remember a kid in my class who was a bully and then he wasn’t. He didn’t like being on the receiving end.
Violence does sometimes solve things.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 7/29/2019 5:05:59 PM (No. 137320)
Someone smarter than me said the problem is today kids never get away from their friends and classmates due to cell phones. They’re either texting or on social media. The days of leaving the bullies behind and regrouping with the family are no more. Hopefully I’ve explained this well.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Michaelus 7/29/2019 5:10:28 PM (No. 137323)
The schools are absolute sewers. It is time to shut the whole thing down and start over.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2019 5:23:19 PM (No. 137333)
I was bullied a few times, being the new kid at school due to my father moving for his job.
The solution was to punch the bully in the face - as long as it took. After that, they stopped it, at least until the next school.
Kindness and talking does NOT work with bullies. A hard fist to the face DOES work. Sometimes violence IS the answer.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
thewarden 7/29/2019 5:36:53 PM (No. 137343)
I was always bullied more by girls than boys. High school was all girls Catholic and while anyone who might have physically violated someone would have been kicked out ASAP (and I don’t think any of that went on there), emotional bullying was rampant and it was always the popular girls (cheerleaders and their sycophants) who were the worst—just like the movie ‘Mean Girls’. I survived but I still remember all of it 37 years later. I can only imagine how bad it is now with social media! Glad I have a son! I’d also rather work with and for men all day long...most of my female co-workers and bosses were evil.
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#13, I think that was not called for. Schools have many things they should be faulted for. However blaming them for student cyber bullying that occurs during non-school hours is not one on them.
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