We all know about “mean girls:” They talk behind each other’s backs, exclude other kids just to be catty, and cut off friendships with no warning or explanation. But what about mean boys? New research finds that they might be even more common than we think.
Researchers at the University of Georgia surveyed 620 students annually between sixth grade and high school and found that a whopping 96 percent of students had spread rumors or said something nasty about another kid — and the behavior was more common among boys. Girls, on the other hand, were more likely to fall victim to such behavior, which the researchers call “relational aggression.”
In my experience, guys are meaner to your face. They'll bully you when you're there. Girls do it behind your back. They bitch and gossip, but they also try and keep the mean things they say about other people a secret. Whereas guys don't talk about you behind your back. They only ever bully people when they're in the same room.
In my experience, guys are meaner to your face. They'll bully you when you're there. Girls do it behind your back. They bitch and gossip, but they also try and keep the mean things they say about other people a secret. Whereas guys don't talk about you behind your back. They only ever bully people when they're in the same room.
These lies.
I never understood that stereotype.
Boys are just as shady as girls.
Yeah it's definitely more likely to be bullied by a guy than a girl...girls typically don't have a mean bone unless it's with other girls (and that's just talking basic gossip)
Boys bully worse than girls I guess but their bullying seems more like just for fun. However if girls bully other girls, their bullying is full of emotion & rage.
I feel like boys bully more people, but for shorter periods of time. This doesn't make it better or worse, but in most cases I've seen, girls hold grudges and bully for years whereas boys bully for very short periods of time.
My teacher told our class one time that when being trained in a school where bullying was prevalent, she was taught to get in between two boys fighting and try to stop it but never try to physically break up a girl fight because they hold grudges and can't be talked out of fighting nearly as easily as boys.
Everyone is a bully, and everyone's been bullied in some way in my opinion. Teens are just mostly terrible all around as people. Even if someone is generally nice, are you really telling me they never, ever talk bad about other people, perpetuate rumors or laugh behind someones back?
Its just what happens in middle/high school. I'd say it happens more within groups of friends than outside of it though. Its horrible yes, and the very idea of packing hormonal, pubescent kids together for hours every day is bound to cause conflict.In my experience it was never like popular kids picking on others. It was popular kids talking **** about each other.
Its a sad thing to be bullied, and its a bad thing to bully others. But it happens, and most people, regardless of gender, are guilty of it.
