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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hormones and insecurity.

You have to pick on someone else to focus everyone's attention on them so that the attention isn't focused on you and others pointing out your flaws.

I figured this out pretty early in middle school.  The kid with the terrible lisp made fun of me for being chubby.  The kid with really, really bad acne made fun of the shortest kid in school.  The shortest kid in school made fun of the kid who had been held back in 1st grade.  Rinse and repeat.      [/quote]

Even the Queen Bees can be quite insecure, and the way to preserve your spot on the top of the pecking order is to put others down.  Boys do it too, just usually more directly and often using physical force in some way (which includes sports/games).  Girls tend to do it more verbally, and can be more sophisticated.  As kids get older and little more comfortable in their own skin, the motivation to preserve your relative status by putting others down falls away a bit, and they become a little more live-and-let-live.

I do think that girls who are really awful are either miserable themselves (often have crap home lives) or have parents (especially mothers) who are obsessed with social status and engage in the same kinds of behaviors.  [/quote]

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