I think we also have to remember that bullying can be cross-gender. I had a mix of girl and boy bullies. The boys came into the picture later (12th grade or so, once I had come out as gay). The girls were in on it much earlier but more or less laid off by high school. Maybe they felt they couldn't compete with this…

He lost me with that terrible Lone Ranger movie. I was super disappointed that he chose to do such a douchey project.

I often feel that way, but then I catch Benny and Joon on TV and swear my allegiance all over again.

SJP is just about the raddest

It really undercuts your valid criticism when you're a colossal douche about it.

But everyone in this story sucks. So...I'm gonna take her side. Just for the hell of it!

Doing some Googling, it looks like Brian Morris has been crusading for pro-circumcision policies since at least his 1999 book and long before the Africa/ HIV study. This guy has a definite agenda, which makes me extremely skeptical about the findings or the way they are stated to make the risk appear much higher.

Okay, this article is exactly why Jezebel science writing needs to improve. At the beginning of this article, it said that circumcision rates are lower in poor areas. When determining causation, it's important to look for possible confounding factors. Here, is it really likely that lack of circumcision causes an…

Please take this information with a grain of salt. Even the American Pediatric Association's official stance is "There's no particularly compelling reason to do this across the board."

Yes, I'm sure allowing the crackhead alkie semi-mayor of Toronto entry so he can appear in his official capacity on the Jimmy Kimmel show is very much in the national interest of the United States.

Wow, that is awful. I was screamed at and verbally bullied in high school but never physically. I think you are right for the most part, bullies target their own gender usually, though I had it from both. What bothers me to this day is the vicious rumors that they spread and people hating you without even knowing you,…

It's as though predators can read that you've been emotionally violated. Either that or they just pounce because you're being nice. I used to work with this old lady that would essentially follow me around the office, wrote my boss if I did something she disliked, etc. When she was on her way out (this is after her…

What bitches. I remember in junior high boys just wanting to fight. Often times for no reason. Not sure if physical or emotional bullying is worse. I had to get stitches on my eyebrow but I fucked his mouth up! I kicked em in the grill!

Actually bullying among popular boy peer groups is very common. The whole Johnathan Martin-Richie incognito saga is a glaring example. I saw first hand and even experienced a mild version of it when I played sports in hs, usually the bully is someone very large for their age trying to assert there place as an Alpha of…

Most of the research seems to show that bullying is contained to adjacent rungs in the social ladder, as those are a person's rivals. It seems like the stories permeating media of the jocks and queen bees torturing the nerds are more due to the drama nerds needing to justify their resentment and writing the television…

It's possible boys just experience it in different ways that isn't talked about here much - I'm female, always have been so I don't know what the guy-on-guy bullying is like. I know it's not all physical for sure.

The researchers looked at gender in previous papers fyi!

It's perspective for sure, since it basically boils down to the apples/oranges comparison of "being bullied by someone you're not friends with/don't like" vs "being bullied by someone you're friends with/crave approval from."

"The more popular the students were, the harder the bullying affected them emotionally" was a little disingenuous. One instance has a greater effect if you're not used to it. But I think if it's just a drop in the bucket and you're already numb, you've been impacted more than someone whose world is turned upside down…

I do get fucking sick of swearing with a quickness when it becomes clear that the writer/speaker has a deeply limited vocabulary and isn't using the words for color, he/she is using them because they've never learned sufficient synonyms for anything.