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Article Excerpt
AS A FORMER GIRL, I must take issue with much of Rachel Simmons' best-selling Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, wherein Simmons interviews far too many adult women who are still bitter about having been victims of bullying girls, circa K-12.
"Today, in counseling, Janet feels certain that resolving her feelings about Cheryl will help her cope with lifelong feelings of low self-esteem," is a typical Simmons sentence. Cheryl, you see, had dropped Janet, now in her forties (1), when they were in, um, junior high.
Simmons defines the "hidden culture of aggression in girls" as "relational aggression"--that is, they...
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