Informative Essay On Relational Aggression
Ashlee Guillory
Informative Essay
Sugar and Spice… No Longer Everything Nice
I. INTRODUCTION
1. ATTENTION GETTER: Can girls be mean? Has everyone experienced betrayal
by the hands of a female? Do we even need to answer these rhetorical questions?
a. Girls are mean. I really hate saying that, but everyone knows it is true and
the more we pretend that girls are not mean, the more trouble we bring on
ourselves.
2. Again, girls are mean that is all there is to it. They are not sweet little quiet
things that never cause a problem in school, like those troubling boys who start brawls in the hallways
3. The typical mantra is that boys are more aggressive than girls are, but in the last
decade or so, we have learned …show more content…
1. MAIN POINT: According to psychologists, there is a new form of “non-physical” cruelty spreading through schools today, so extreme it has been given its own name: relational aggression.
a. Relational aggression is described as any behavior that is intended to harm someone by damaging or manipulating relationships with others (Crick and Grotpeter, 1995).
2. Researchers have long know that adolescents, especially girls, engage in this sort of behavior, to maintain their social status in school. Relational aggression can have devastating and long-term effects on its victims.
3. A “girls” friendship can be either the key to popularity or the key to their destruction. The “mean girls” are usually highly liked by some and strongly disliked by others.
a. These “mean girls” seem to be very socially skilled and popular, but are very manipulative and mean when they think it is necessary.
TRANSITION: Now that we have learned about relational aggression, we can move on to the different hierarchies found in our
Informative Essay
Sugar and Spice… No Longer Everything Nice
I. INTRODUCTION
1. ATTENTION GETTER: Can girls be mean? Has everyone experienced betrayal
by the hands of a female? Do we even need to answer these rhetorical questions?
a. Girls are mean. I really hate saying that, but everyone knows it is true and
the more we pretend that girls are not mean, the more trouble we bring on
ourselves.
2. Again, girls are mean that is all there is to it. They are not sweet little quiet
things that never cause a problem in school, like those troubling boys who start brawls in the hallways
3. The typical mantra is that boys are more aggressive than girls are, but in the last
decade or so, we have learned …show more content…
1. MAIN POINT: According to psychologists, there is a new form of “non-physical” cruelty spreading through schools today, so extreme it has been given its own name: relational aggression.
a. Relational aggression is described as any behavior that is intended to harm someone by damaging or manipulating relationships with others (Crick and Grotpeter, 1995).
2. Researchers have long know that adolescents, especially girls, engage in this sort of behavior, to maintain their social status in school. Relational aggression can have devastating and long-term effects on its victims.
3. A “girls” friendship can be either the key to popularity or the key to their destruction. The “mean girls” are usually highly liked by some and strongly disliked by others.
a. These “mean girls” seem to be very socially skilled and popular, but are very manipulative and mean when they think it is necessary.
TRANSITION: Now that we have learned about relational aggression, we can move on to the different hierarchies found in our