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> Young girls and young boys (and adults, etc) have peculiar behaviors that differ among groups. But what I’m saying is this behavior isn’t “peculiar“ among th
by elliekelly 5y ago
> Young girls and young boys (and adults, etc) have peculiar behaviors that differ among groups.
But what I’m saying is this behavior isn’t “peculiar“ among these groups at all. It’s the same. Yet we only seem to talk about how it happens amongst young girls and ignore how the behavior is frequently directed towards them as well.
- refenestrator 5y agoTeenage boys' bullying tends to be physical and a lot less socially adept, stereotypically speaking. Social media is less of an accelerant for that sort of thing.
- prepend 5y agoSorry about that, I assume everyone is familiar with difference in bullying rates and types by gender. There’s quite a bit of difference on how girls bully and are bullied [0] and there’s lots of statistics and it all seems to echo the same thing. This was referenced in the article for how Facebook knew it’s stuff affected girls differently than boys. I’ve read a lot [1] on how social media, in particular, disproportionately negatively impacts girls. I don’t think we only talk about this, but because it is more significant it comes up more, I think. Again, I don’t think this is a reason to blame girls or individual girls, since much of the bullying is not caused or targeted to girls. But it affects girls differently. [0] https://www.pacer.org/bullying/info/stats.asp https://www.pacer.org/bullying/info/stats.asp [1] https://time.com/5650266/social-media-girls-mental-health/ https://time.com/5650266/social-media-girls-mental-health/