Reply #190: Worse, acceptable AND much easier...

[Guilded Lilly]

thanks to anonymous outlets such as the Internet, as well as *reality* TV that promotes aggressiveness. It's all a vicious cycle...accent on vicious.

Great thoughts, Haele.

The loss of any kind of accountability starts in the home, spreads to the school, into the workplace and of course was reinforced for eight years with the highest positions in a very thug oriented government. Oh yeah, it has always existed in all those places for various reasons and in various degrees. But never with such lack of personal accountability or common decency.

Females can be horrid creatures. The mental anguish and full-blown ugliness of *Mean Girls* syndromes can far outlast any round house punch from a bullying male counterpart.

No matter the source or the reason...and there are MANY, not only clueless or bad parenting...the rest of society has to ironically, develop an intolerence for this kind of intolerance. And it won't be easy, because the letter and rule of the law in recent years has protected bastards and wretches and liars and bullies.

I do feel that standing up to any type bullying behavior is the beginning. But it is incredibly tough when you are a kid. Shame on ALL of us for allowing this continuing ugliness to exist so easily.