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Relational Aggression
A high school student cried as she recounted being tormented in middle school by her classmates. For some reason she was targeted as a "dog," and day after day she had to walk the halls with kids barking at her. How did it stop? The girl said she stopped it. But how? She picked out another girl, someone worse off than herself, and started to call her dog. Then the others forgot about her. Then they barked at the other girl instead. Girls may be made of sugar and spice and everything nice, but on the inside, they are just plain mean. "Girls tease, insult, threaten, gossip maliciously, and play cruel games with their friends' feelings and set up exclusive cliques and hierarchies in high schools." (Omaha World Herald, 10A).
Relational aggression is a fairly new development, which involves adolescent girls and their emotions. To understand this newly found term, one must start from the core word "aggression."
After understanding the forms of......

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