When we think of bullying we usually think of the big mean bullies preying on the weak.
But according to a study commissioned by CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360├é┬░, the social food chain doesn’t really work like that.
The results:
“Overall, the majority (56%) of students were involved in aggression or victimization, either as pure aggressors (25%), pure victims (14%), or both (17%). kids do not always fall into the stable roles of bully and victim. Instead, they seem to be sporadically pulled into conflict.”
They found the kids that bully others are trying to climb the social latter — and they mainly bully other people trying to climb the latter too! The results are less like Diary of a Wimpy Kid and more like what you see in Mean Girls.
Bridget, a junior, who was ranked highly as both a victim and an aggressor said:
“No matter what high school you go to, what age you are, what social group you’re in, you’ve been bullied and you are a bully. Once you start realizing that you can have … higher social power by putting other people down … that’s, like, how people are moving up and that’s how they’re gaining respect.”
WFT?? How is that a way to get respect?
The ONLY positive about this bulling culture is that kids can pretty much avoid it by laying low.
[image via Mean Girls]
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