Relational Aggression In Mean Girls

As human beings, we all go through developmental cycles, but during our teenage cycle we come across problems which in my opinion results in teen relational aggression towards one another. Relational aggression among boys is typically physical. But between girls it becomes relational, leaving them feeling rejected, “less than” and with a damaged sense of self. Boys grow out of this phase by resolving issues physically, but girls don’t. Girls usually take out their anger among one another by bad mouthing and putting each other down.
In my opinion relational aggression will get worst throughout the years, just as bullying and cyber bullying has due to social media. Social media networks were positively used to keep in contact with family members …show more content…
These actions can be prevented by the schools in different ways, but in my view the elementary and middle school faculty need to get more involved in these girl’s actions by confronting the teen when relational aggression is being used against one another. I remember as a teen girl that my elementary and middle school didn’t have as many women speakers as they should of had to talk to us teen girls about many of the changes that we may had faced during this stage in our lives. In my opinion the schools should have more women speakers talking to these girls about self and peer respect, because during this cycle in a young girl’s life they are emotionally and physically going through changes that they may not know how to express, I think if it comes from a women’s perspective to let these teen girls know the harm they are causing one another when using relational aggression it will make a …show more content…
Even though it’s popularity is increasing these networks aren’t being used properly specially by our teens. In the movie we saw a lot of the girls using their house phone to three way each other and listen in on the call. They also use the burn book as Twitter or Facebook would be used, but now a day’s social media is being used in the wrong way and these post that are supposedly being deleted in reality aren’t. In my opinion we as adults need to enhance many of our teens emotional intelligence and explain to them how their peers feel about being bullied by others. Parents also need to take action in their teens lives and understand that they need to watch what their teens are doing online, because as technology advance’s the world becomes more unsecure for our new