Two girls — one 14-year-old and one TWELVE-year-old — have just been arrested, and bullying and Facebook played a part in the charges. Read… 10/15/13 2:20pm 10/15/13 2:20pm

While the following news may seem a little bit TL;DR/duh/moving on, a new study indicates that if you are unattractive and/or mean at work, your coworkers are more like to be unpleasant to you. Man, I hate high school. Read… 6/24/13 10:25am 6/24/13 10:25am

For girls in high school, participating in a team sport may help deter bullying and physical violence, though the fascist camaraderie of athletic cooperation apparently does little to dissuade high school boys from bullying and fighting with each other since popular male sports like football have a way of encouraging… Read… 5/05/13 2:00pm 5/05/13 2:00pm

When Bard College students recently held anti-bullying workshops at a middle school on topics like gender identity and consent, instructors split boys and girls into two groups to practice "saying no" in a comfortable setting. Cut to: Fox News claiming that the girls' class promoted "lesbian role play" while boys were… Read… 5/02/13 10:40am 5/02/13 10:40am

"Workplace bullying" is a growing issue, according to the AP, which reports that "it could become the next major battleground in employment law as a growing number of states consider legislation that would let workers sue for harassment that causes physical or emotional harm." Read… 3/01/13 1:40pm 3/01/13 1:40pm

It is 1986. We are 13- and 14-year-olds, rank-smelling in unwashed teenager jeans, unsupervised and latch-keyed after school, huddled around the face of the future: The screen of a first-generation Apple Macintosh personal computer. Within the machine's non-dairy creamer-colored casing is a malleable visual playground… Read… 1/04/13 4:17pm 1/04/13 4:17pm

As if it weren't bad enough that their bodies were waging a war of attrition with certain insidious nuts and dairy byproducts, a new survey from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that nearly a third of the eight percent of U.S. children diagnosed with food allergies are bullied in school. If you've… Read… 12/24/12 12:20pm 12/24/12 12:20pm

In another example of the ongoing wonderful, incredible, super duper "new niceness" internet phenomenon, another teenage girl has killed herself after repeatedly being called a slut and a "fuckin ugly ass hoe" by internet commenters. Read… 12/12/12 3:45pm 12/12/12 3:45pm

People can be so vile with their commentary on the Internet, but typically behind the cloak of anonymity. However, when Australia's prime minister Julia Gillard took to Facebook on Monday for a real-time interactive Q&A about her education policies—a first for the government—several men felt pretty comfortable posting… Read… 10/08/12 4:10pm 10/08/12 4:10pm

In news of adults being unconscionably awful to children, the mother of a 10-year-old girl with Cerebral Palsy has claimed that a neighbor, 43-year-old William Bailey of East Sparta, Ohio, and his son mocked her daughter as she was walking off of the school bus, known in popular lore of people who were unfairly bullied … Read… 10/03/12 10:45pm 10/03/12 10:45pm

A Michigan town is warming the heart-cockles of light news readers everywhere today, as the citizenry of Saginaw rally around a 16-year-old girl who was voted to homecoming court as a joke by the dick salad that is her high school student body. "It's like Carrie, but with a happy ending!" says the Detroit News. Like hell … Read… 9/25/12 5:30pm 9/25/12 5:30pm

A Missouri mother is calling for an end to a really shitty tradition at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, whereby junior boys make a list crudely detailing the sexual proclivities, general hygiene and physical appearances of senior girls. School officials have insisted that they will try really super hard to get to do… Read… 9/12/12 2:30pm 9/12/12 2:30pm