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[quote=Anonymous]PP last born 3 bros. I’m not saying “all girls with sisters...” I’m trying to explain this phenomenon that many ppl have recognized wherein mean girls have older sisters. I look at it as a “levels of power” situation. The first 2 mean girls I encountered in 6th grade were youngest w/ 1 older brother. The 3 major mean girls I encountered in 7th-high school were youngest w/ sisters. The difference is the power of information and security. Brother mean girls would eventually grovel when they realized they had gone too far. Sister mean girls would never have to grovel because if they went too far and were excluded for being too mean they could say “I don’t need to be invited to your sleepover, my cool, older sisters are taking me out to do something cooler/better.” Brother mean girls don’t have someone teaching them specific things to be judgmental about. Sister mean girls have someone at home saying “if you wear that to school you’ll look stupid” translation “anyone who wears that looks stupid and I should tell them they look stupid because my sister who is older and therefor an authority on what’s cool said so...”
I know it’s not exclusively girls with older sisters who end up this way, it’s that many of us have noticed that girls who are the most powerful in the position of mean girl frequently have older sisters. 
One of my bffs in high school was a total Marcia Brady, her younger sister could have very easily been a viscous mean girl but she didn’t end up that way, she was a total Jan Brady. Equally, another friend had an older sister who was a hopeless dork so she was out there figuring things out on her own, and frequently reminding us how dorky her older sister was, imagine what she would have been like the power of a Marcia Brady sister... [/quote]

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