Sarah Miller's 'How You Bully A Girl'

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Walking down the halls of Eastland High School, Brooke looks around. She is wearing a pair of ripped skinny jeans, high suede riding boots with a tie right above the back of her knee, and a tight black top. Her hair is long and straighten, which she places in a ponytail. Her makeup is elegantly done, not too much as tho to make boys think she needs it to be pretty, but just enough to show she knows what she is doing. The boys in the hall look her up and down, she begins to feel uncomfortably as the eye here like a piece of fresh meat in a den, but yet she feels confident in their desire for her. But then, she see the other girls. They look at here with hatred, and low murmurs of “skank” and “slut” trickly out as she walks past them. Unfortunately, this case described above had plagued the halls of high school for many generations. …show more content…

Within her study and research, Miller takes the focus on the past decade where much research has found and astounding and frightening focus on slut-shaming and sexual rumors used to bully other girls. Miller directly believes that many of these issues directly related to the circumstances that these girls are placed in an institutional setting, and society has given them limited access to information about sex and social freedom to understand and express sexual

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