Last week, someone commented that "Most of the students at Tyee who are popular are the good popular when they aren't with their "popular group of friends". When they are with their friends, they tend to gossip, spread rumors, and make fun of other students." This reminded me of an essay by a 17 year old girl, called "Nasty Girls". I shared part of this essay with group today. The author describes her middle school experience with the "gossip group" and how right before her eyes the girls that she thought were her friends were becoming meaner and meaner to others, as they became more popular.
So during the lunches today, sisters talked about mean girl behavior and why we do it. A few girls in first lunch admitted to gossiping and spreading rumors about others. They said the reason they did it was to get back at another person who spread rumors about them, or they did it to feel important.
Some reasons that other lunches gave for mean girl behavior was to get attention, because it's cool to be mean, or to keep the focus off of yourself so you don't get made fun of.
What are some other reasons, sisters? Where do you think girls learn these behaviors? Where do they learn that it's cool to be mean?
Think about it sisters and leave a comment.
Look forward to seeing you all next week!
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Girls be mean at times b/c they want to feel like they belong. And girls say things they don't mean in front of their friends to make them look cool or important. At this age almost everybody does this. It's who we are.
Girls can't help being mean sometimes it's just a part of us. We want to feel like we belong and important. So sometimes to feel like we are important we gossip and tell rumors that we don't mean. Although there are some girls that are just mean and that's just who they are.
i think its bad when rumars are made up but its just fun to keep up with whos dating who and stuff like that
Some people can't help but to be mean. It's a part of us to just be that way. Sometimes they just want to feel like they belong and they don't know how to do it so they resort to being mean and cruel to other people. They usually don't mean it. People want to feel like they belong. It's human nature to want to belong.
I think that as people become more popular, sometimes they want to be better than the others so they spread rumors.
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