April 28, 2004

Girls Hate Each Other

With "Mean Girls" coming out this weekend, articles are up popping up all over the place about the supposed "epidemic" of girl-on-girl violence plaguing high schools and middle schools nationwide.

I remember Bill Maher including "girls hate each other" in his "controversial statements" routine a few years back (somewhere between "being drunk is funny" and "the Olympics are gay"), and there have been more and more stories lately, from that hazing incident in suburban Chicago to a more recent case involving a Baltimore 12-year-old beaten and stomped at a birthday party.

I can't think of any causes or solutions to the problem, but once the first all-girl mass murder happens, we can be sure it'll be blamed on all the same stuff Columbine was. That, and feminists.

Posted by Stephen Silver at April 28, 2004 12:43 AM
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When I was a prosecutor, I was involved in a prosecution of a murder where three girls repeatedly stabbed a stripper to death. I cannot ever recall experiencing such a rare occurence of girl on girl murder.

Posted by: J. Lichty at April 28, 2004 11:21 AM

I am continuously shocked when people are shocked that girls can be "mean". To me, the fact that girls have the capability of being mean just like boys is a no-brainer. Because we're all human beings, all capable of horrors. Girls are sugar and spice and everything nice? I would bet a man wrote that.

Posted by: red at April 28, 2004 11:36 AM

Hey, I'm not being hypocritical- I'm not in the habit of defending male assholes either.

Posted by: Stephen Silver at April 28, 2004 09:39 PM
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