High school teacher here. I hear and overhear plenty of situations between heterosexual males being described as drama or "boy drama", "guy drama", etc. Maybe these just don't get reported in the paper or always spiral into some huge problem, but they do exist and are real and hurtful for many students. Friendships…

So- I work with teenage boys. And, let me tell you, they can be just as gossipy and catty and petty as teenage girls. It's a residential program (mostly "juvenile delinquents"- but most of them have a terrible home life) and the drama is non-stop. It is definitely not just the girls. I have definitely noticed there…

Honestly, I've been more concerned (and I think I've mentioned this before on this site) with what would, previously, have been recognized as sexual assault or sexual harassment, or, alternatively, hate crimes or hate speech, being called "bullying." I.E. girls being grabbed in the hallway or made fun of because of…

I've read it in Mexican newspapers! The term is so widespread now that it has lost a bit of its meaning. I'd stick to the term "harassment," which adults know is something serious. I was harassed throughout middle school by variosu groups of boys, and nothing ever was done to them because they weren't ever caught in…

Drama and bullying seem to go hand in hand these days. And yes, boys are involved quite often.

I've worked with adolescents - boys get into drama. I taught guys at a prison for a bit - drama. The drama was made worse by a culture encouraging snitching for minor bullshit. The bed not being made up right?