Are most girls just mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have two boys and a daughter. With my boys, we have mostly encountered stable families and boys play sports, do well in school, play video games and very little drama. They did scouts and all the boys were pretty nice.

My daughter has similar activities now and the girls all seem so mean! They are competitive, jealous, emotional and high drama. It is tiring. There are so few nice normal girls. My child seems like a fish out of water. Any activity or sport she tried, it starts out fine and it feels like anytime we get to know the other kids and familie, we find out the girls are not nice at all. I have felt this in Girl Scouts and dance especially.

Girls are biologically wired to be mean and also unreasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Most girls are really mean. Most women are mean too.

All of this

[Anonymous]

I only have daughters (and only had sisters too) and they are teens now. And yes in our experience most girls are at worst mean and catty and at best just not thoughtful. There are a few nice ones but they are very hard to identify and in high demand as friends. The remaining girls tend to be anti-social (want to read at recess, only want to discuss very limited subjects, don't want to hang out or do things outside of school, or the parents don't let them.)

I'm hoping college is a better experience for them.

[Anonymous]

The boys are physically abusive to each other, while the girls are emotionally abusive. My guess is you are more comfortable with boys being physically abusive and chalk it up to 'boys will be boys' or some other sexist troupe, and are less tolerant of they way girls cope with the same feelings. Girls are taught not to hit, and people look the other way when a boy does it.

Most kids have a mean streak by middle school - even my perfect sweet angels have the ability to be mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The boys are physically abusive to each other, while the girls are emotionally abusive. My guess is you are more comfortable with boys being physically abusive and chalk it up to 'boys will be boys' or some other sexist troupe, and are less tolerant of they way girls cope with the same feelings. Girls are taught not to hit, and people look the other way when a boy does it.

Most kids have a mean streak by middle school - even my perfect sweet angels have the ability to be mean.

My boys do not hit one another and as far as I know, they do not hit or get hit by their friends. They do play physically and have gotten hurt. My kid has fallen down a tree, got a scratch during basketball, head butted during spike ball, fallen off bikes, etc. They have gotten upset over fouls during playing sports but this is not their actual friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The boys are physically abusive to each other, while the girls are emotionally abusive. My guess is you are more comfortable with boys being physically abusive and chalk it up to 'boys will be boys' or some other sexist troupe, and are less tolerant of they way girls cope with the same feelings. Girls are taught not to hit, and people look the other way when a boy does it.

Most kids have a mean streak by middle school - even my perfect sweet angels have the ability to be mean.

I’ll take physical over emotional abuse any day of the week