Are females more socially aggressive than males?

[Michael]

Are females more socially aggressive than males?

Importantly, Hess and Hagen also asked the participants how appropriate they thought various acts of violence against the treacherous classmate would be.

Findings from this study indicated a clear difference in aggressive responses between the genders, with women overwhelmingly compelled to retaliate by attacking the offender’s reputation, mostly through gossip. This gender effect panned out even after controlling for participants’ evaluation of the social appropriateness of such acts. In other words, in spite of the fact that the women realized malicious gossip wasn’t socially appropriate, this was nevertheless their preferred first point of attack. Men, on the other hand, were more evenly divided in their response, but failed to show the same preferential bias for acts of “informational warfare” against the unlikable classmate.

Source-ScientificAmerican (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bitch-evolved-girls-cruel&page=2)

Followup Article (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=women-more-socially-aggressive)

Interesting phenomena that. ;)

Anyone agree or disagree with the findings of this study?

[The Drunk Girl]

Are females more socially aggressive than males?



Source-ScientificAmerican (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bitch-evolved-girls-cruel&page=2)

Followup Article (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=women-more-socially-aggressive)

Interesting phenomena that. ;)

Anyone agree or disagree with the findings of this study?

Being a female myself, I would have to agree. Given the scenario described in the article, I would completely shut that person out (unless I was drunk at the given time would I say something). Working with females is the worst in my opinion. You never know what is going to be said about who and typically when one party is talking about the other the same thing is going on with the other side. And we do use gossip as a way to "poke" at one another or to get shit started. Females are also more apt to hold grudges (even if they say they're alright) and to judge one another on superficial attributes. When this happens it is VERY obvious that one female doesn't like/care for another.

Men on the other hand can make their judgments and still be able to socialize with one another, not letting it affect or be obvious that they don't care for someone. Men can fight and let it be water under the bridge.

Just this past weekend TDG and I were hanging out with some friends. Some giggly little girl comes bouncing in. She wasn't the smartest thing and used words like, "Oh my God" with the giggle attached at the end. I thought I was going to die. Later in the night she confessed to telling some "hot guy" that she owned a pontoon to get him to like her. Obviously, the gigglebox doesn't own a pontoon so she freaked when he asked her to go fishing on HER PONTOON. I simply asked her what the hell was her problem. Her response, "he was hot." Needless to say, in my opinion, she's a dumb whore. So there! I fullfilled my end of the prophecy.

[Margot]

I escaped high school this time last year and I still have nightmares about it. Good God above, every single person was out to destroy the reputation of everyone else. Boys and girls alike, if they knew that they could harm someone they made the best of it. The girls were all these big fountains of misinformed and malicious bitchiness, but the boys, well they saved up and made sure whatever personal attack they made counted.

Then, last summer I had a job running a food court pizza place by myself. I prepped the food, made the pizzas, worked the register, fixed the popcorn machine and made sure there was syrup in the stupid, goddamned coke machines. I have never hated anything more in my life. The only perk (and there as only one. Screw you and your 10% storewide discount. that means nothing!) was this really attractive boy who worked in receiving for the rest of the store. We'd talk now and then, and it was so nice to be treated like a human being instead of shoveling food into the gullets of 300lb people-whales.

I lost my job because of that boy. I went to high school with the evening manager for the big store, and we had never liked each other. We did, however, have the same taste in blue-eyed Target employees. She went above my head and the head of our little food court's manager to screw me royally. By this time I was at university, and she knew it. So, she scheduled me as full time, with split shifts all through the week. When I said "I can't do that, no way no how" she said "well, you can find someone to cover you for a week until the HR woman comes back, or you can quit now"

I quit now. "you're welcome back to the store any time!... To shop"

The conclusion I have drawn from these experiences is this: when it comes to social aggression boys play psychological warfare. Girls go in for the kill, the more damage the better.

[Sucre]

Gossiping is traditionally attributed to women ... It is an agressivity in words and not in actions (puntching your face).

I think there is little doubt about it.

Women are physically weaker then men so that agressivity expresses itself in a different way.

[Americano]

Gossiping is traditionally attributed to women ... It is an agressivity in words and not in actions (puntching your face).

I think there is little doubt about it.

Women are physically weaker then men so that agressivity expresses itself in a different way.

And very sneaky about it.

[Margot]

Gossiping is traditionally attributed to women ... It is an agressivity in words and not in actions (puntching your face).

I think there is little doubt about it.

Women are physically weaker then men so that agressivity expresses itself in a different way.

I've met a fair few girls who'll punch each other in the face. Just ask my face.

This doesn't really make sense. They're not really being aggressive towards men, are they? Maybe it's just me, but I've never really seen girls go in for the reputation kill on men just because like they do with each other. We compete with other women for men's attention, or for status in the community.

Men fight each other because of men-things that I don't fully understand (dude, bro). They'll be aggressive when they compete for fair lady's heart, which is an aspect I do understand. But at the same time, they're also playing the women they're trying to get. Boys will throw punches, but they'll also use words to get at their targets. That's why we have concepts such as the "wing-man" and the "pick up artist"

[Michael]

I've met a fair few girls who'll punch each other in the face. Just ask my face.
One of the biggest 'unreported' phenomena out there is the amount of female violence in society.

Tough girls getting into fistfights are becoming increasingly common at public schools. Fistfights at lesbian bars are practically a stereotype Friday night entertainment. And I've seen some data on violence in marriages that show 'battered husbands' are a VERY LARGE minority there.

[The Drunk Guy]

One of the biggest 'unreported' phenomena out there is the amount of female violence in society.

Tough girls getting into fistfights are becoming increasingly common at public schools. Fistfights at lesbian bars are practically a stereotype Friday night entertainment. And I've seen some data on violence in marriages that show 'battered husbands' are a VERY LARGE minority there.
I think "drunken rage" knows no sexual boundaries. ;)

[Sucre]

One of the biggest 'unreported' phenomena out there is the amount of female violence in society.

Tough girls getting into fistfights are becoming increasingly common at public schools. Fistfights at lesbian bars are practically a stereotype Friday night entertainment. And I've seen some data on violence in marriages that show 'battered husbands' are a VERY LARGE minority there.
Certainly. We should however be watchful not to overestimate "growing" phenomena - if they remain marginal. Tough girls may be a sign that girls are getting tougher or that society in general is getting tougher.