According to the annual statistics, the number of violent offences committed by girls aged 10 to 17 has nearly doubled in three years.
This is a new reality in the female arena, realizing that girls really want to be like boys in all levels.
Girls fight videos have increased substantially online.
You see segments on the news showing
alarming videos of teenage girls hitting other girls for the purpose of making a video to ridicule publicly their victims, become popular after posting the video in You tube, etc.
The silent “Queen Bee” has taking it to the next level.
Girls new behaviors such as violence was considered deeply meaningful; it served to maintain group solidarity, reinforce friendships, affirm allegiances, and enhance personal status within the group.
This makes me believe that these generations of women were exposed to a lot of media violence or Real World generation of MTV teachings to name a few.
Women have increased about 10% in aggression compare to the already higher number in men.
Some of these teenage girls feel a rush of adrenaline when they fight or attack another making it addictive.
A lot of these videos are shown and advertized sexually to get more momentum online. They have underage fighting girls in bathing suits and some of these children before getting into a fight use drugs and get drunk.
A CNN article mentions: In 2003, 25 percent of high school girls said they had been in a physical fight in the past year, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (The figure for boys was 40.5 percent.) A Justice Department report released in 2006 showed that by age 17, 21 percent of girls said they had assaulted someone with the intent to cause serious harm.
Do you think these fighting patterns have increased due to violence in the media? Or the internet is creating a problem with gossip and conflicts that children can’t defend themselves and need to detonate by fighting??
5 comments:
Alex, I was aware of this behavior in young women and saw it to a limited degree when I was in school, but not to the degree it is now. When I was younger the guys had fights all the time and people were beat up real bad. I was amazed when I saw how popular girl fights were and how they were 'cheered' on by other girls and guys that would watch and film it. With all the media outlets the average person has available to them now, like YouTube, it has become some kind of craze. I think your right that it reinforces bonds etc. but its so wrong. Those are 'fear' bonds. What signal did these people get from their parents and a society that tells them this is cool. Its sick as far as I'm concerned. To think that its ok to beat another person into a bloody submission for no reason other than to put it on YouTube, or a website and for laughs is demented and some parents and the community that we all live in are at fault.
Not only have girl fights become something of a habit. You will also find in colleges hazing to be something that has grown more and more with girls. It use to be big with the boys and now has spilled with the girls hazing each other. Physically, emotionally, and socially. It is bad enough that the media and internet make it hard for girls self-esteam, girls do it to each other now and then later call themselves family or friends for that matter. Media and internet have done a poor job in showing the negative of this behavior and just show how cool or great this is. Everyone saw the video of the girls beating on that pour girl in that house. That video was played over and over again on the tv. It is amazing how we only know how to display the negative and never the positive.
Alex,
I think that are are people who are violent of both genders.
To me, it seems that female aggression seems to be on the rise because it is now more acceptable for women to be physically violent against other women or even men. More people today are willing to believe that girls can be just as violent as boys, and therefore feed into the attention that the posters of violent content often crave.
I don't think that there has necessarily been an increase in female violence, but that it has changed forms. I also think that the same can be said of male violence.
The media and sites like youtube provide people with an outlet for violence that they have never had before. We are therefore more aware of the violence that has always existed. This, in turn, paints violence as acceptable in society, spurring similar copycat videos and acts. While it is interesting to compare the effects of sites like youtube on both genders, I think that this is an issue that affects everyone.
Alex,
I have noticed that we are seeing more and more incidents of females fighting. I like all of the statistics you have also, they really provide a good foundation for discussion.
I think the media also puts more attention on the female fights also. It is out of normal expectations that many people have that boys are the ones that typically fight. Some of the biggest rivalries I remember from high school were some of the fights females had. They were just as violent as the ones that the males had. The drew a bit more attention as well. My opinion initially would have been that it just gets more attention now from the media. But clearly your post indicates that it is on the rise. Good job.
These incidents of girls fighting other girls seems so scary. The pattern in all cases seems to be many attacking one and it being a set up so someone can catch it on tape. So, my question is why would you want to brag about beating someone up? It seems to be more about taping it then, actually just settling things as we have seem with boys in the past.
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