2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-9137.2012.01127.x
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Demonizing “Mean Girls” in the News: Was Phoebe Prince “Bullied to Death?”

Abstract: In 2010, Phoebe Prince committed suicide according to news reports because of the bullying of “mean girls.” The discourse that emerged in the news framed the girls as committing murder with words, contributing to a moral panic that condemns White middle‐class girls for their aggression. The mediated narrative about the mean girls vilifies girls' communication (since the girls reportedly bullied through talk, not physical violence) and calls for escalating inspection of girls in order to tame the “threat” of fe… Show more

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“…. in increasingly duplicitous and cruel ways” (Ryalls, 2012, p. 466). Sensationalization of verbal and/or indirect bullying and cyberbullying among girls vilifies and condemns girls’ patterns of communication, resulting in “calls for escalating inspection of girls in order to tame the ‘threat’ of female aggression, while ignoring the role boys may have played” (Ryalls, 2012, p. 463).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…. in increasingly duplicitous and cruel ways” (Ryalls, 2012, p. 466). Sensationalization of verbal and/or indirect bullying and cyberbullying among girls vilifies and condemns girls’ patterns of communication, resulting in “calls for escalating inspection of girls in order to tame the ‘threat’ of female aggression, while ignoring the role boys may have played” (Ryalls, 2012, p. 463).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…in increasingly duplicitous and cruel ways” (Ryalls, 2012, p. 466). Sensationalization of verbal and/or indirect bullying and cyberbullying among girls vilifies and condemns girls’ patterns of communication, resulting in “calls for escalating inspection of girls in order to tame the ‘threat’ of female aggression, while ignoring the role boys may have played” (Ryalls, 2012, p. 463). This attention to relational aggression among girls extends to research and scholarship (Chesney-Lind, Morash, & Irwin, 2007; Currie, Kelly, & Pomerantz, 2007), and may even inform “current violence prevention and anti-bullying programs” (Chesney-Lind et al, 2007, p. 109).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite recognizing the potentially negative impact of insidious bullying, neither the youth nor the adults seemed aware of their own contradictory assessments of these forms of cyberbullying. Several high-profile bullying victimization cases have garnered significant media attention in the USA and Canada (Espelage and Hong 2017;Ryalls 2012;Smokowski and Evans 2019). It would be important to examine how youth incorporate attention to high-profile cases in making sense of their own cyberbullying experiences.…”
Section: Implications For Practice and Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From the 1990s onwards the problem girl was also the subject of extensive judgmental scrutiny. The "bad girl" and the "mean girl" such as the ladette or the bully (Ryalls, 2012), the sexually precocious girl (Jackson and Tinkler, 2007;Meyer, 2010;Jackson and Vares, 2011;Dobson 2014) and the wayward gang girl (Chesney-Lind and Irwin, 2004) were repeatedly highlighted and condemned by the media. Often the judgement levelled against these figures was rooted in prejudices of social class and/or race.…”
Section: Good Girls In the Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%