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Odd Girl Out

The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

By Rachel Simmons


According to journalist Peggy Orenstein, a “good girl” is “nice before
she is anything else – before she is vigorous, bright, even before she
is honest.”
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False  

 
According to the author, the sequestering of anger not only alters the
forms in which aggression is expressed, but also how it is perceived.
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False  

 
According to the author, the word “bully” does not evoke the image of an
enemy.
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False  

 
According to the author, girls do not have to bully to alienate and
injure their peers.
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False  

 
In schools, the American Association of University Women found “the
lessons of the hidden curriculum” teach girls to value silence and
compliance, to view those qualities as a virtue
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False  

 
Journalist Peggy Orenstein found that girls did not value in each other
social characteristics of “sweet” and “cute.”.
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False  

 
The author discovered that with the girls she interviewed, every clique
can draw its own invisible lines.
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False  

 
Manipulation, especially when it’s sexual, is never shown to girls as
the path to power.
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False  

 
The culture of indirection places a massive psychological burden on the
girls who internalize it.
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False  

 
American culture is built on dual pillars of dependence and competition.
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False  

 
According to the author, in a social world where anger explodes
unannounced, anxiety is the norm and security a luxury.
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False  

 
Some girls describe a kind of exhilaration derived from excluding one of
their own.
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False  

 
The popularity race shines a harsh, relentless spotlight on its
contenders, raising the stakes on everything they say and do.
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False  

 
For some girls, silence and distraction are signs of weakness.
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False  

 
The concept of “associates” clarifies the status of those girls who have
proven themselves as true friends.
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False  

 
For some girls, being exposed as “two-faced” can be grounds for a
confrontation.
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False  

 
For some girls, being cast out is a blessing in disguise.
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False  

 
Dealing with the feeling of powerlessness is not essential to fighting
the loss of girl’s authentic selves.
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False  

 
It’s the girls hurt by their close friends who pull parents along on
their emotional roller coaster.
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False  

 
What we can learn about assertive girls would be undeniably useful in
developing concrete strategies to fight the loss of girls’ authentic selves.
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False  

 
In this day in age, stereotypes about females and aggression do not play
a powerful role in the approach of some mothers to their daughter’s ordeal.
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False  

 
To complicate matters, girlfights lack the boldly, drawn lines of
battles between boys.
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False  

 
The author suggests to turn your home into a sanctuary for your daughter.
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False  

 
A new activity does not make any difference to an ostracized child.
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False  

 
To reverse the toxic elements of girls’ socialization, we will need an
infrastructure with two main components: regulation and education.
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False  

 
Silence and indirection are acceptable ways to express negative feelings.
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False  

 
The author asked every woman she spoke with, who was bullied, “If you
could go back in time and talk to yourself at the moment when you were
most upset, what would you say?”
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False  

 
When girls understand that relationships can be chosen and that conflict
is natural, their social identities will cease to hinge on how many
idealized friendships they can rack up.
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False  

 
It is vital that we promote awareness of submissive and aggressive
behaviors in girls’ relationships.
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False