A Newsweek article a few months ago by Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes (which was the basis for the movie Mean Girls), as well as Mean Girls Grown Up: Surviving Catty and Conniving Women, commented on the left-over mean girl tactics that growing numbers of women are resorting to:
“In our culture … we get rewarded for mean-girl behavior, so we see adults behaving in ways that we typically assign to teens … Getting attention is the most important thing.”
Read blog. An interesting sidebar related to the terrible bullying problem rampant in our country.