Girls Just Wanna Be Mean
Kids call it 'outcasting' -- using gossip, innuendo, and other unsavory techniques to alienate and shun a peer. And it's a growing, potentially dangerous problem in our schools -- whether your child is on the receiving end or the one doing the bullying.
By Star Lawrence
Reviewed By Michael Smith, MD
on Tuesday, May 04, 2004
WebMD Feature
Mean girls don't just exist in movies -- they're real.
At 13, Kelsey hung with a pack of five girls in her Washington parochial school. Now 20, she recalls in vivid detail the day her pals took her behind the chapel and handed her a note.
"They made it seem like something good, like an invitation or something," she says. "They were smiling. I opened it and it was written in all different colors of inks and handwriting, saying we don't want to be your friend, don't look at us, don't call us, don't come near us. Everyone put it a different way -- they all wrote it."
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