Alternative Aggressions

According to dosomething.org, “Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year.” Everyone can be a bully at one point and they may not even know that they are bullying someone. Which means that our actions can speak louder than our words, and sometimes when our filthy actions and crude words come together it’s not always a happy ending. In the end, someone’s going to be hurt.

Following Group one’s presentation on bullying, this paper will look further into the outcomes of bullying. The group, as well as all three of my article mentioned depression, anxiety, and loneliness as the main outcomes of bullying, whether that is short term or long (Group one, personal communications, November 18, 2015; Bannink, Broeren, van de Looij – Jansen, de Waart, & Raat, 2014; Gruber & Fineran, 2008; van der Wal, de Wit, & Hirasing, 2003). These outcomes are present for both genders, but are often more common for girls than boys although it depends on the type of bullying occurring. As will be discussed, direct, indirect, and cyber bullying have different effects on girls as well as sexual harassment.

Children tend to be less involved in school activities and tend to withdraw themselves from any communication with others. School aged children who endure bullying tend to become shy and very timid making it difficult to interact among their peers. This makes them less likely to have friends and leaves them feeling worthless. Research has shown that girls are more likely to be bystanders of bullying acts to maintain social support and friends (Waldrip, 2008). Most girls try to maintain a status which creates issues among each other and they tend to bully the one’s that effect this status. As the bullying continues the victim’s turn to harmful acts or even commit suicide. Recently in a nearby local community a student that was being bullied bullied committed suicide. The bullying she endured had her depressed to the point where she felt there was no other way out of the vicious acts but to end her life.

“In this world, friendship is a weapon, and the sting of a shout pales in comparison to a day of someone’s silence. There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away” (Simmons 3). This quote from Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons shows that girls don’t show aggression in the same way guys do. Girls use the power of their relationships to bully others. Rachel Simmons was once bullied herself. She never spoke out about it or tried to figure out why it was happening. Now having grown up, she sets out to talk and listen to females of all ages to figure out just how many of them have been bullied or have been the one to do the bullying. She interviews girls from different schools asking about their experience with other girl bullies. Two of these girls, Vanessa and Natalie, both said they

The ways in which a child bullies someone else greatly depends on their gender. When boys bully it’s more of a physical aggression which includes pushing, shoving, hitting and kicking. However, when girls bully others, they hurt others through damaging their relationships and self worth with words. Girls who are bullies tend to spread rumors about other people so that people will reject that person and view them as strange. Girls who are bullies also control a person by social exclusions, for example, one can say, “you cant

Bullies gain self-pleasure by inflicting pain towards others of the same class, often making their lives miserable. In many cases children may start bullying other children because they don’t understand that is wrong. Bullying also can be learning from home, community, television, movies or internet. The bullies can be also victimization by others, physical abuse, modeling of bullying behavior from parents or lack of supervision by parents.

Bullying is all over the world. Each year there is over 3.2 million victims being bullied. Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying.17% of American students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month in a year. To many within a school semester. Since 2002, fighting behaviour has increased, especially in grades six to eight. Boys are more likely to start bullying because of being bullied in their past. Girls are most likely to cyberbully. Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online. According to Gale, cyberbullying is the use of the Internet, smartphones, or other electronic communication devices to spread harmful or embarrassing information about another person, such as talking about people, telling other people’s

They like to intimidate or harass their victim physically or verbally. Bullies like to think they have a superiority in their peer group, as the victim feels alienated or humiliated. Children are known to copy adult behavior. When it comes to the physical bullying boys are more prone to be aggressive behavior on smaller or younger children in their peer group. Girls, on the other hand, are prone to the verbal bullying. They start rumors, make others exclude the child from any group activity or make fun of the child. When it comes to the physical part of bullying girls are less likely to be aggressive, but still not

One difference between female and male bullying is, female bullying is often more covert. Girls are socialized to be “sweet” and present their aggression in passive ways. Girls establish a hierarchy of who is “in” and who is “out”. The students who are “out” are often attacked in an effort to lower the victim’s social status. These attacks can have both immediate

Previous research has shown a significant peak in aggression around day 3 of marijuana abstinence among chronic, heavy users when compared to pre-abstinence levels and those of controls (Kouri et al. 1999; Budney et al. 2003). The purpose of this study is to assess different forms of aggression and find out which ones are most prevalent among chronic marijuana users during withdrawal by assessing self-report measures using a modified form of the Forms of Aggression Questionnaire (Verona et al. 2008). Because there appears to be little to no studies assessing the difference

Peers get bullied everyday. Being bullied can make teens lose self-confidence. It could lead to depression and it could cause many to kill themselves. The teens being bullied are being abused verbally, physically, and sexually. These teenagers and up feeling helpless and worthless. Thinking that they can't do anything productive all because of their peers bullying them. Hearing things over and over again, you will eventually start to believe what you are being told. All the while these teenagers are receiving negative after negative and they end up believing the bullies and start to see

Bullying surrounds today's society. It is to the point where the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared bullying the third leading cause of death in between the ages of ten and twenty four (Thompson). Almost daily, a new story is broadcasted on the news about someone getting beat to death or killing themselves because of bullying. In fact, on April twenty-ninth of this year, a seventeen year old high school student got brutally beaten outside of school on her way home. She made it to her house, but with severe injuries. When she went to sleep that night, she fell into a coma and never woke up (CNN). Unfortunately, situations like this are typical, especially in teenage females. According to survey results recently

Most girls bullied as young kids, remember it for the rest of their life. However, Rachel Simmons not only remembered it, she decided to find out why it happened. Simmons found that not many people study the way girls bully each other, so she did just that. She wrote a book that discusses how girls bully, why they bully, and how to help. The goal of her writing this book seems not to be able to end bullying, but to be able to spread information. Before reading this book, most people would have had no idea about the different types of aggression, and how girls use these aggressions to bully one another. However, after reading the book, any reader would have much more knowledge on the topic of bullying.

Physical assault and aggression is the second leading cause of death among 14 to 17 year olds, next to vehicular accidents (Loeber). But why are humans so aggressive in the first place? There are two sides of the debate: Nature, and Nurture. Some say that it’s human nature, genetics that cause most behaviors, while others say that we act as we learned during childhood. This argument applies to aggression as well. Aggression is mainly caused by things during childhood and adolescence where people learn from various sources about aggression, although, human psychology plays a slight factor.

The most common type of bullying among females is verbal bullying (“Verbal Bullying” 1). This type of psychological bullying uses derogatory terms to demean, or lower, the victim in the eyes of others to show that the bully has power over them (“Verbal Bullying” 1). This causes the person to have low self-esteem and develop depression in that victim (“Verbal Bullying” 1). Verbal bullying is the most psychologically damaging and lasts well into adulthood (Aluede et al. 6). “[Words] have a power all their own, and the realities of verbal bullying can have very physical consequences, even if the aggressor never lays a finger on the victim” (“Verbal Bullying” 1) In more severe cases of verbal bullying, or any bullying for that matter, can lead to drugs because the victim wants to escape his or her tortured life, in more extreme cases if the person’s depression worsens it could lead to suicide (“Verbal Bullying” 1).