Bitchiness: A Societal Flaw Among Girls Today

The other day in class, my friend showed a picture of a girl in our year level and we both giggled and picked apart every little thing that was wrong with her in this picture. Does this bitchiness make us feel better about ourselves? Girls these days so often find ways to belittle classmates, friends or even strangers. But where has this behavior come from? Why do girls feel the need to belittle others?

The film ‘Mean Girls’ has become reality in this generation as girls scheme, manipulate and backstab each other. A study was conducted by Tracy Vaillancourt from University of Ottawa and Dr Aanchal Sharma from McMaster University. The study showed that women will become hostile when confronted by an attractive woman. A group of women were

Where does this bitchy behaviour come from? According to Tracy Vaillancourt this behaviour has been hard-wired into the female's brain. But where has this evolved from? In the animal kingdom the females compete to find the right male to be able to reproduce with, and to the extreme, if no one reproduces a whole species can be wiped out. Well. Apparently this is the same in the human world. Women feel the need to compete for the males, and when a more attractive female comes into the picture the bitchy behaviour shoots up. As they feel the need to compete by trying to look more attractive. It's like the female gender is at war with each other trying to have more power than one another, but really it is just intra sexual competetion. Girls that are aged 11 to 25 are in the peak of the female intra-sexual competition, this is where girls feel the need to compete with each other to get boys attention. By using this bitchy behaviour over one another they feel as if they have more power than the other, which increases their chance of getting a partner. Years ago, we may have got rid off the competition by ‘putting them to sleep’ but now we get rid of the competition in a different way. By belittling them and scheming different ways to have more power over them. So it has always been the same, ‘getting rid of the competition’, it's just the behaviour has evolved by becoming sneaky and subtle.

In conclusion, the bitchy behaviour has evolved into the plot of the movie Mean Girls. Where all of the female gender is in one big competition (intra seuxal competition) trying to get the better of each other. That's why it is important we surround ourselves with role models such as Rebel Wilson to make sure our “genetic destiny” doesn’t take over. As said by The Daily Mail “I’m not being a jealous bitch. I’m fulfilling my genetic