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Violent Femmes
March 14, 2008By Liz McArthurI stayed home from work yesterday to spare the office of my minute to minute coughing fits and need for my pajama pants. In between naps I happened to catch part of The Tyra Bank’s Show. While it’s usually overflowing with substance,
this particular episode seemed to be making it up as it went along.Tyra has single handedly brought “Violent Girl Syndrome” into the limelight. This is directly from Tyra’s website (which seems to be the only place in the whole wide world web to find anything about this horrible disease):
If you’re worried someone you know is suffering from Violent Girl Syndrome, compare her behavior to Dr. Gary’s list of signs.
- Irrational physical responses to emotionally charged conflict situations, usually starting with verbal taunts in the form of hurting, aggressive or demeaning personal accusations to trigger a challenge to fight.
- Anger is an overreaction, like killing an ant with an atom bomb.
- Group mentality takes over. Each girl is usually supported by her own pack of girlfriends. Often the situation is made worse by clique members who provoke and incite fighting.
- Conflicts are seldom resolved or brought to closure by “the fight.” Usually grudges are held and the conflict continues “underground.” Others can still be drawn into it at this stage. The “sides” get bigger.
- Usually the conflict focuses on personal territory (turf, things or even people seen as “mine”) and some threat to that territory by the other girl.
- The conflict can focus on a perceived challenge to a social position in a cultural hierarchy…like in the school/friends system.
- The conflicts are usually emotion based, and subjective (more about feelings than facts). She reacts to emotional insult or pain with physically or verbally aggressive behavior.
- There can also be a secondary gain to the fighting like attention seeking, social elevation, status change, etc.
- THE FINAL KEY: In these violent girl syndrome episodes there is ALWAYS ANOTHER WAY IT COULD HAVE BEEN HANDLED, but wasn’t. The repeated choice is always to fight, and in the heat of the moment anger is a thoughtless reaction based on animal instinct instead of thought or consideration.
I don’t mean to sound old fashioned (I’m 28) but, this sounds an awful lot like being a teenager. Some of this sounds an awful lot like the way I felt when I was teenager, and some of this sounds an awful lot like the girls in my high school that everyone stayed away from.
This isn’t a syndrome, it’s hormones. The only reason Tyra Banks cares about any of this is because she apparently just discovered “the youtubes”. It seems that “kids these days” post a lot of their everyday school life on the youtubes, which we all know, can include fights. Tyra Banks couldn’t handle it. She had to make up a disease (I think it’s pretty obvious she made up the name herself) and then do a show about it, and ruin my day off work.
I feel like I should say something nice, just in case my grandma sees this.
Tyra Banks…uh…you probably still look better in a bikini than me.
The End.
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I totally agree. I’m about to graduate college and all I could think of when I saw all that was “Um… can we say MIDDLE SCHOOL?” What about violent boy syndrome? Nobody seems too worried about that.