I was watching the news tonight and was nothing short of stunned by this story. (In case you don't want to click, it's about a high school student who was hit in the face with a tray in the cafeteria at school. Even worse, this was planned out by other students and even caught on video tape and put on YouTube. The girl was injured and had to be taken to the hospital.)
It made me think about cliques and the ones we all know as Mean Girls. They're the ones who live to make other girls' lives miserable in high school. If you were lucky, you escaped them. If not, you felt their wrath.
I was lucky to get through high school and never want to go back there. Unfortunately, I've discovered in life, however, some girls never grow up.
It's hard to find good friends. It's hard to keep them. Women are generally not as supportive to one another as you'd expect.
It makes me wonder why girls--and the women they become--find it so necessary to run one another down. Men don't do that. Men just go on with their lives for the most part. With the women's movement, you'd expect us to have the confidence we need to let all of that go. Where is it?
Cliques are everywhere in life. I don't know if that's why this girl was singled out, but I have a strong feeling it is.
The worst of it is, when I told The Boy about the video, he then showed me one on Youtube involving two girls from HIS school fighting. In a way, it seems the old clique-y attitudes are changing into violence with girls.
Are girls becoming more violent than boys? Is the saying now, if you can't join them, BEAT them?
Scary.
