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The title of this article says it all. This whole article is crap. I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs.
We're all forced to deal with different types of people we meet in life. Kids should be no different. The idea that they're so "tramatized" by this that they can't speak about it years later is so "Oprah Winfreyish."
Put these kids to work. That'll keep them busy so they don't have so much time to wring their hands in self-pity. And, send the "touchy-feely" groups who support this nonsense with them.

This whole article is crap. I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs.

While I disagree with the psychobabble part of the article, I don't think the entire article is crap. Girls and women can be vicious, mean and cruel, and thier form of bullying is particularly ugly especially when a group of them gang up on one girl. And it isn't just middle school. My two daughters have experienced some of this in private elementary school, I've seen it and experienced some of it myself all through life. To me, a fate worse than death is to be forced to work in an office full of petty-busybody women.

We're all forced to deal with different types of people we meet in life. Kids should be no different.

Agree but it's up to PARENTS to be aware that these things do indeed go on and to help daughters learn coping skills.

I beg to differ. This stuff starts in elementary school. I am the mother of one of those girls in the middle group. She's pretty tough, having been through much worse before we adopted her at age 5. BUT ..... one of the mildest sweetest looking little girls in her class was regularly opening my daughter's lunch box and taking what she wanted.(I stopped it.) This child has also viciously excluded another girl in the class, by trying to get the other girls in the class to not include her, or invite her to anything. If one of the other girls in the class crosses this child by not complying with her wishes, then they get "the treatment".

I'm thinking of changing schools because of this child. The administration won't do anything because the child is careful not to let any adults see her behave this way. This is a private school second grade. I have no intention of letting my daughter deal with the garbage from this child for the rest of her school years.

I know there's lots of psychobabble out there, but some of you guys remember being bullied by some jerk out there, why is it so hard to think women might do it differently?

I'm not going to handle this like some liberal victim, I won't sue anybody or take steps like that, but I WILL handle it. My daughter will be moved to another school if this stuff continues, I'll take my private school dollars elsewhere, and they'll know why.