But what I’m saying is this behavior isn’t “peculiar“ among these groups at all. It’s the same. Yet we only seem to talk about how it happens amongst young girls and ignore how the behavior is frequently directed towards them as well.
This was referenced in the article for how Facebook knew it’s stuff affected girls differently than boys.
I’ve read a lot [1] on how social media, in particular, disproportionately negatively impacts girls.
I don’t think we only talk about this, but because it is more significant it comes up more, I think.
Again, I don’t think this is a reason to blame girls or individual girls, since much of the bullying is not caused or targeted to girls. But it affects girls differently.
[0] https://www.pacer.org/bullying/info/stats.asp
[1] https://time.com/5650266/social-media-girls-mental-health/