Teen Girls : Dangerous

**Percy** · 23rd-February-2011

Teen Dating Violence:

Girls are much more likely to be the sole perpetrator than boys

By Men's Activism News | Tue, Feb 22 2011, 03:04 AM

Journal from the National Institute of Justice here along with charts showing the rates of perpetration of teen dating violence by gender here.

Excerpt:

'These findings are generally consistent with another study that looked at more than 1,200 Long Island, N.Y., high school students who were currently dating. In that 2007 survey, 66 percent of boys and 65 percent of girls who were involved in physically aggressive relationships reported mutual aggression. [7] Twenty-eight percent of the girls said that they were the sole perpetrator; 5 percent said they were the sole victim. These numbers were reversed for the boys: 5 percent said they were the sole perpetrator; 27 percent the sole victim. In a third study, teen couples were videotaped while performing a problem-solving task.

Researchers later reviewed the tapes and identified acts of physical aggression that occurred between the boys and girls during the exercise. They found that 30 percent of all the participating couples demonstrated physical aggression by both partners. In 17 percent of the participating couples, only the girls perpetrated physical aggression, and in 4 percent, only the boys were perpetrators. [8] The findings suggest that boys are less likely to be physically aggressive with a girl when someone else can observe their behavior.

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The study of seventh, ninth and 11th graders in Toledo, for example, found that a majority of the boys and girls who were interviewed said they had a relatively "equal say" in their romantic relationships. In cases in which there was a power imbalance, they were more likely to say that the female had more power in the relationship. Overall, the study found that the boys perceived that they had less power in the relationship than the girls did. Interestingly, males involved in relationships in which one or both partners reported physical aggression had a perception of less power than males in relationships without physical aggression. Meanwhile, the girls reported no perceived difference in power regardless of whether their relationships included physical aggression. [18]'

**omegaflux** · 23rd-February-2011

Twenty-eight percent of the girls said that they were the sole perpetrator; 5 percent said they were the sole victim. These numbers were reversed for the boys: 5 percent said they were the sole perpetrator; 27 percent the sole victim.

Very rarely will you see such a near perfect reversal of numbers in questionnaire studies, which makes me believe the results even more.

The findings suggest that boys are less likely to be physically aggressive with a girl when someone else can observe their behavior.

While I hate it when researchers make conclusions the study parameters couldn't have tested, I can't help but feel if the roles were reversed the qualifier would not have been added to the end of the sentence (and I'm assuming the couples actually were told they were being videotaoped).

**senach** · 23rd-February-2011

Quote from omegaflux

Very rarely will you see such a near perfect reversal of numbers in questionnaire studies, which makes me believe the results even more.

While I hate it when researchers make conclusions the study parameters couldn't have tested, I can't help but feel if the roles were reversed the qualifier would not have been added to the end of the sentence (and I'm assuming the couples actually were told they were being videotaoped).

That is a good point,did they know they were being taped,the results might have been different,if they had secretly taped their interactions.

**omegaflux** · 24th-February-2011

It just seems like they didn't want to admit that boys were actually less violent, despite what the research showed, so they had to qualify it like they only weren't violent since they were being watched, but look out girls once you're no longer in the safe confines of the laboratory.

**dad_savage** · 24th-February-2011

These facts do not surprise me in the slightest. Through school, pop-culture and many other influences teenage girls are generally taught that they can do no wrong. They're taught that their male counterparts are less mature, reasonable, are perverse, violent, dangerous, etc. Women have a natural capacity to try to edit and control or restrict male behavior. When not held accountable this capacity is expressed in terrible ways. My personal view is if you were to have a sit down with most of these girls you'll find their violence is entirely about getting what they want; you'll see their attitude toward men is one of them believing themselves to have some kind of authority, and almost a parental right (even a responsibility) to edit, punish, condemn, etc.

Whenever I see a woman behaving unacceptable towards a man she always pleads the excuse 'He did X, I had no choice,' or 'He always does Y, I've told him not to do that.' these girls are taught that they deserve a man who conforms to a certain stereotype. They're told any man who doesn't is unworthy (therefore abusing him can hardly be a crime, or wrong) they're taught that they essentially have a right to dictate and control male behavior particularly with regard to relationships. They're more 'mature' after all, and they're less 'violent,' and blah blah.

They're just never held accountable. The raft in social perception of male-commited violence and female-commited violence is bad enough, but in DV there are so many other sexist assumptions at play. The raft in perceptions of victimhood, in who has a right to control whom, in who deserves to call the shots or is more worthy to 'run' the relationship, the idea that male sex degrades while female sex enhances (so if two people are having sex, the man is automatically indebted to the woman) that women do not want but, but indulge them on the basis of other acts the men perform to 'earn' their love, trust, company, etc.

To be honest I wouldn't give five minutes to the average teen girl these days. Nasty self-absorbed spiteful mannish, shrill, nasty entitled little snakes the majority of them. Oh don't get me wrong I know teen boys are often quite thick and no prize in and of themselves but at least they're not encouraged to see their flaws as marks of character, or to believe themselves morally infallible. I know this isn't a very scholarly opinion; it's just my own personal view.

**dievas** · 24th-February-2011

Sadly, these girls make up 90% of the females my age.

**Zuberi** · 24th-February-2011

Quote from dievas

Sadly, these girls make up 90% of the females my age.

Do yourself a huge favor and avoid them like the plague.

**shaazam** · 24th-February-2011

Quote from dad_savage

These facts do not surprise me in the slightest. Through school, pop-culture and many other influences teenage girls are generally taught that they can do no wrong. They're taught that their male counterparts are less mature, reasonable, are perverse, violent, dangerous, etc. Women have a natural capacity to try to edit and control or restrict male behavior. When not held accountable this capacity is expressed in terrible ways..

""Through school, pop-culture and many other influences teenage girls are generally taught that they can do no wrong. They're taught that their male counterparts are less mature, reasonable, are perverse, violent, dangerous, etc. Women have a natural capacity to try to edit and control or restrict male behavior. ""

one has only to view and barf at "Neighbours" the feminit soap opera, to endorse this opinion

girls learn these attitudes from their kindergarten teachers up to their feminit wimyn's studies brainwashing professors