Lis Smith handled communications for Bill de Blasio during his campaign and throughout his transition, and was widely expected to join him in the mayor's office. Instead, she was unceremoniously dumped from the job just before the new year. The reason was the public discovery that Smith is in a relationship with…
Harvard's racist email scandal — starring Stephanie Grace — appears to be eerily reminiscent of Phoebe Prince's tragic bullying in one way: Both started with a fight over a guy.
14-year-old Nadia Dorrington has been bullied at school for years, and the world, sadly, has seen the bullying on screen, as six of her classmates attacked her, filmed the attack, and posted it on YouTube.
A new book for teen girls explores the "mean girl" syndrome, and… hey, wait a minute: Is that big-eyed mascara-loving chick on the cover silently judging us?!?!? [BoingBoing]
Blogger Debra Dickerson is tired of young feminists talking about the present and future state of abortion rights as if they actually care about them.
Last night's episode of Bad Girls Club was a vivid - and disturbing - reminder of the lengths to which some women will go to attack others.
Leadership coach Peggy Klaus says a recent study by the Workplace Bullying Institute (?!?) finds that female bullies direct their dysfunction at other women more than 70 percent of the time.
Nicole Williams is one of the first people to be accused of harassment after a new Missouri anti-cyberbullying law was created after the death of Megan Meier. But should cyberbullying be prosecuted this way?
Dr. Pam Spurr is apparently a shitty therapist, because there's no other way to explain her Daily Male, I mean, Daily Mail column "Forget This Tosh About 'Freemales' - Single Women Who Say They Are Happy Are Lying." The title alone makes me want to shake her, but reading it, oh dear God, reading it made me realize…
We often discuss girl-on-girl crime in these parts, which is to say that we condemn baseless bad-mouthing of a woman based on her appearance or her gender. But what we don't always point out is the idea that well-argued criticism is not the same as crime. This is not a motherfucking kumbaya circle, people. Which is…
