Books, Girls and Bullying.
I just finished reading a YA book called Freak by Marcella Pixley. (I got a number of YA books out of the library today, because the teen room, unlike every other area containing fiction in the library, is on the first floor and therefore does not require an eternally broken elevator for access.) The book was very good and very painful for three-
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I agree. Which makes perfect sense. If you do something and get away with it, you'll keep on doing it. Why would you stop, if there are no consequences.
The sort of book where they quote academci studies on the structure of girs' social groups, and how the leader of such a group is always in such fear of losing their position that they demand constant loyalty tests.
I've read such claims. I've seen them in movies like "Mean Girls," too. I don't believe it; saying that the leaders of bullying groups live in insecurity and fear seems like one of the reassuring lies that academics tell themselves about bullies. I've never known a bully who struck me as anything but brash, overconfident, obnoxious and in control. My feeling has always been that bullies bully because they get drunk on the power it gives them, and that they will kill before giving up their daily dose of egoboo.
I can also add that this stuff doesn't stop with school.
Oh, I know that. I've worked with enough of them. That doesn't excuse adults wimping out, though. Or adults giving poisonous advice, as in this book. Cowardice and lies don't help.
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