Term Papers on ODD GIRL OUT

Term Paper Title	ODD GIRL OUT
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.34

ODD GIRL OUT

By: Rachel Simmons

Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons exposes the “hidden culture of girls aggression in which bullying is epidemic, distinctive and destructive.” (pg.3) Simmons went around the nation, interviewing to girls about their own experiences with bullying. As I read the book a picture of my own past experiences with bullying became a “distinct reminder of the lasting effects of cruelty, and where the “damage is neat and quiet, the perpetrator and victim invisible.”(pg. 4) “The target, is often unaware of why her friend is angry, is consumed by panic and the fear of permanently loosing the friendship.” (pg.45) One day the girls are friends and the next day “the victim is isolated from her peers as many girls use double doses of distance and silence to announce their anger, leaving defendants clueless about what they’ve done.” (pg. 75). Betrayal hurts, and as a victim states, “they told me what a horrible person I was. They….ripped me down to nothing.” Society can start by lying down, “enforceable public rules….to begin to scratch at the surface of this problem.” Words are powerful and can help society begin to understanding the minds of both bullies and victims. Without taking action society will still experience “the same problem, and without help girls will remain vulnerable bullying and abuse.”

Why do girls fear isolation so intensely? Many girls “may try to avoid being alone at all cost, including staying in an abusive relationship.” Many girls in the book began “to questioning their self, and [began] to lose trust in others and their selves.”(pg 46) But, as one school consular said to Simm...

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