2-2: …….for a girl?
16September 27, 2012 by Ms. Gunning
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Family Management 9/10 
I think when we as girls put other girls down we aren’t always doing it to ‘feel better about ourselves’ but to just fit in with our clique’s. and to let out our anger and frustration out on another person, projecting how hurt we are because we don’t want to show our vulnerablity. leaving the person we harmed defensless as well as leaving us with a sickly satisfied feel.
I think that even though we know how hard it is on girls we do it because it gives us a sense of power. Society depicts girls as catty and i guess we have that reputation to live up to. Whenever i’ve said something horrible to another girl i suddenly feel guilty just because i know all to well how it feels. Maybe some of us do it so that we know we aren’t alone in the suffering? Also it is way easier to pick on a girl than it is a guy. So when we are having a bad day it’s just easier to snap out at a girl. I don’t think we always plan on making their life harder because we don’t really think about what we’ve said till after we’ve said it.
I think us girls put other girls down to make ourselves feel better about certain things like looks or clothes or guys. We dont actually realize how much it hurts until it happends to us or you think about it at a different time. Girls are less afraid to say something hurtful to another girl compared to another guy so words that we say to other girls can be more hurtfull and upsetting
I think girls bring down other girls even though we know how hard it can get is because we want to feel better about ourselves. Because girls can be so insecure, we reassure ourselves that by putting down others we feel better but in reality its just bitchy and all it does is hurt the ones around us who are actually struggling with the same problems we are. I believe by critisizing others, girls feel better about themselves. It’s the unfortunate truth and it sucks to admit
I think girls do this to other girls to make them feel better about their self’s feel the way that they have been treated. Some girls probably think that if they do this to other girls then they think that it is going to make them feel better. But in reality it makes thinks worse. People think that this will always work but it really doesn’t. It just makes it worse, and then nobody is happy,.
I think the reason we put down girls is because we compare our selves to them and it makes a realize our flaws more and how they are better then us. So we think by putting them down it will make us prettier but truly it just makes us uglier not on the outside but on the inside. We think it will boost our self esteem but truly it just ruins other girls and does nothing to us but make us a bad person. We need to just except who we are and who others are.
I think that we put down other girls even though we know it hurts because that is what society makes us out to be like. Also, if we put down other girls that will deteriorate other girls and make us closer to perfect.
I feel that we put each other down to feel better about ourselves but it doesn’t actually work that way. We do it to feel like we fit in or just to agree with our friends but we all know how bad it is and how you would feel if someone said that about you. We think we’ll feel better or prettier if we do but it doesn’t it makes you a worse person on the inside, but a lot of us still do it.
I think girls put down other girls even though we know what it feels like because it makes us feel better about ourselves, and every girl does it so it doesnt seem as bad when in reality it still hurts.
in my opinion i believe that girl bring other girls down because it makes us feel better about ourselves, and if your getting the attention from other people from making fun of someone, than it makes you feel better that all the attention is on you. in reality most girls are scared to go up to the person that is saything things about them and making them feel bad about themselves so nobody ever really does get confronted about it so really, why should they stop? and when they are busy talking about other people, there not getthig talked bad about. overall, we all know how much it hurts because it has happened to all of us, but we get caught up in the highschool drama, girls like attention, enough said, we do it to make ourself feel better.
i think we bring down other girls because it makes us feel better about ourselves. like if you were to call someone fat or stupid, then it makes us feel skinny and smart. i dont think we realise how much it hurts until it happens to us.
There is a vicious cycle that comes along with being a girl; we hurt others so that they dont hurt us first, and we try to bring eachother down in order to bring ourselves up. The more we are hurt, the ,more angry and eager to hurt others we become. Im not sure wether it is the nature of women… or what our society has morphed into. In a perfect world we would be aware of our own ignorance and stop being such hypocrits.
i feel like girls put other girls down because they think they are better them more attractive then them and they are also insecure so they put other girls down. I also think that girls put others down to make them feel the way they have felt before or feel at that time . they also do it for attention.
I think it’s alot to do with the people you are around and you feel pressured to say things to fit in and some times if that girl has said or done something to hurt you the words just come out and you want her to feel like you did and it just goes in a cycle and girls never stop hurting each other
i think girls are hard on each other to make ourselves feel better. i think its really sad that today with everything women hve done to gain equility, in work, politically and in the home that we still need to turn on each other to feel good about ourselves. we think that saying a girl “isnt that pretty” makes us more attractive when really it just makes ourselves more insecure.
I really agree with this. It is odd to think that girls would do something to other people that hurts them so much when done to them…I can’t say I even really understand it. No reason is good enough. But I assume it is because of jealousy, insecurity, and revenge. Revenge as in if someone said something rude to you, you’re put them down because you want to “get them back”. Its all stupid.. We all do it, and I don’t know why. Girls are dramatic, dumb, and we do things to other girls for insane reasons.