I would say that pretty boys are definately abused by the other kids at school, but maybe that's just me, and pretty girls are, more often than not, just flat out harassed, risk being ostracized if they don't put out, are subjected to an over abundance of degrading remarks, even when crossing the street, moreover, find themselves lumped in with backbiting cliques that really don't care one whit about them. Perhaps that wasn't your point, but still, I don't know what school you were lucky enough to go to, where everyone didn't get their just deserts, Erin Toronto Quoting BOROWIK LUCIENE <luborowik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > "One side of the equation is pious -- keep the faith, preserve the > culture -- and the other side is violent and destructive -- destroy the > outsider, homogenize the culture -- but isn't it the same feature of human > thinking with regard to group identity?" > > The violent side of the question is more about hating whoever is different > from whatever people expect. > > Why aren't pretty girls and boys usually abused by the other kids at > school? > Why is it usually the girls and boys who are *different* that are > constantly > attacked by their schoolmates? > > The hostility shows up early in life and goes on through the adult life. > When humans reach adult life, the same hostility finds beautiful labels > like > defending the faith, fighting for freedom, etc. > > Luciene Borowik > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > -- Erin ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html