Archive for April 5th, 2010
Was Sending Him the Picture a Mistake?
Rosalind Wiseman offers some advice to Jessie, a 16-year old girl who recently sent a picture of herself in her bra to a boy she likes. Jessie’s worried that the guy doesn’t like her anymore because ever since she sent him the picture, he hasn’t been flirting with her or responding to her texts. Was sending him the picture a mistake?
‘Queen Bee’ Author Rosalind Wiseman on Bullying’s New Realities
Bullying is back in the headlines, as it is all too often, with the suicide of a teenager who was victimized by her schoolmates. Nine of them were charged last week with felonies. More can be read about it in this Sisterhood post. The Sisterhood spoke with author Rosalind Wiseman, whose 2002 book “Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence and the movie based on it, “Mean Girls,” crystallized in popular culture the notion of girls who bully and are bullied. Wiseman, the mother of two sons, ages 7 and 9, lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
The “Myth” of Mean Girls???
When I first read Friday’s New York Times Op-Ed “The Myth of Mean Girls,” I couldn’t believe what I read. Were the authors really saying that what happened to Phoebe Prince in South Hadley, and other incidents like it, is not indicative of a serious, pervasive pattern of girls’ aggression simply because violent crime committed by and against girls has dropped in recent decades?
