Lynndie England and female bullies

After looking at the disturbing photos in class on Friday, I was reminded of a video I saw on the news a few years ago. It was a high school Lacrosse team I believe, and the senior girls were beating up on the freshman. They made the girls kneel in front of them while they threw food at them, kicked them, hit them, and to make it worse, they recorded the whole thing. I remember being so shocked and disgusted, but what bothered me the most was the fact that these were girls doing this. It's very stereotypical of me, but I had never really thought of girls being violent, only guys. I had the same feeling as we looked at the photos in class. In the photo I first saw, England looked like a young boy to me, definitely not a girl. And after hearing that the person I saw was female, I got that sick feeling again. Girls are typically viewed as sweet, innocent. To see a happy girl smiling so happily next to a frozen dead corpse, it just didn't sit right with me. I decided to look up other videos and was amazed to find that this isn't a rare occurrence. Girls are violent, and just like guys, they enjoy it. We've talked about animal instincts in class before, and while these girls are not acting like human, I don't see their actions as animalistic either.

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