It’s Not Girls Being Girls — It’s Relational Aggression
The type of bullying you most likely haven’t heard of but probably experienced.
Have you ever seen people whispering about you and giving judgemental looks? Have you ever been the victim of a rumour that’s damaged your reputation? Have you ever been excluded from a friendship group? Have you ever felt pressure to join in with gossip to fit in?
We have all experienced this at some point in our lives.
We will most certainly have experienced it as children. It’s impossible to avoid it because it happens all the time and it’s normalised under the phrase “girls being girls.”
You only have to turn on the TV and there will be a reality show where this is happening.
I tuned into an episode of Love Island for the first time recently and found countless examples. A new girl entered the villa. The girls that had been in the competition from the beginning were threatened by her and engaged in what is commonly referred to as “bitchy behaviour.”
During my teen years, I watched The X Factor every year. As I got older I noticed that female judges were being pitted against each other. Dannii Minogue was put on the judging panel to be pitted against Sharon Osbourne. Then Cheryl Cole was…
