Girl Fights?

I was reading the thread about the 12 year old in Villa Rica, Georgia who passed away following a physical fight with another girl b/c they got kicked off the school bus, and I thought of something.

Almost every time I see HS and lower grade students fighting in viral videos these days, it's girls. Not always, but almost.

My mother taught at a small southern private school, K-12 grade, and I went there for my whole K-12 education. I don't remember seeing girls physically fight.

Ever.

Not one time.

Boys, yes. Especially in PE or in the context of sports when tempers might flare due to the competitive and physical nature of the activity. And the younger the grade, the more fights I can remember.

But girls...I can't remember a single one. I'm sure there were some—there had to be some hair pulling and slap fights somewhere along the line—but they were insignificant enough for them to not have made a sufficient impression for me to remember them. And like the boys, the older we got, the less likely something like that was going to happen. I can say with a high degree of certainty that past sixth grade or so (probably more like 3rd or 4th grade, but to be generous), the fact that I can't remember any girls rolling around on the ground kicking at each other with murder in their eyes like I see on these viral videos is a function of the fact that it just didn't happen in my environment, not that I just don't remember it.

It strikes me as so trashy and low class for girls to act that way every time I see one of those videos, and the fact that they are apparently the norm in most schools—at least public schools—is disheartening to me.

The coarsening of the culture, indeed.