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Girl Violence, is This a New Phenomenon?
Sugar and spice, huh? There’s always been the thought that boys are more violent than girls. Now there are rising reports of violence in girls that are making us step back and not only rethink that thought, but wonder why it is happening and if there’s anything that can be done about it.
Boys do tend to be more aggressive, however there have always been aggressive girls as well. Now with the lines between genders becoming more blurred, will we use the same term of “girls just being girls”?
The latest shocker in girl violence is where 6 girls beat another girl unconscious and thought it would be cute to post the video on Youtube. How smart was that? The girl apparently suffered quite an experience with hearing and vision loss and could not escape due to being trapped in a room with them.
These girls with the video apparently took things too far and didn’t have any idea of the true seriousness of their actions or the consequences. Who really does at that age? However being that some of them were 17, they may be facing some actual jail time. Wonder if the fact that they come from “good families” will make a difference there where as girls that possibly didn’t, wouldn’t get the same treatment. They were asking if they were going to miss cheerleading practice and were bummed about not being able to participate in spring break which demonstrates their state of denial.
Let’s face it, in our society we are often numb and desensitized to violence. It takes serious consequences and life lessons before we can begin to truly grow up and get the seriousness or have awareness concerning our actions and how we can hurt or affect others. Our nation is at war, yet we don’t expect our children to hold the same anger or desensitization that it takes to create that?
Wars don’t always consist of army guns and missiles. Combatants aren’t always young men in fatigues. They can be dressed in anything from business attire to the latest fashion, yet we fail to recognize it because that anger and dysfunction isn’t so apparent. Yet when we catch it on video, we are shocked, angered and distraught. The greatest wars are the ones fought in our own backyards.
Laurel, this is a great post. I was very disturbed when I saw the video of the young girls brutally beating another young girl. Being a mother to a young child it scares me to think of things like this happening. I agree we have become way to numb and desensitized to violence. I do think we need to spend more of an effort in “our own backyards”, stopping violence here, before spending our resources in other countries.
Donna