Have Girls Really Grown More Violent?

    Teenage girls are psycho, trust me, I know from experience. I've seen many a television show that has exposed the horrific capabilities of teenage angst. In high school the thing to fear is no longer jocks or bullies, but a teenage girl who is eager to tear anyone or anything apart. I am a teenage girl, and while I do not like to classify myself with the stereotype, I'll admit that I can see that there is a forming trend in female violence. Us girls are just plain viscous I guess. Girls are going through a tough adjustment though, so it's not always their fault. Puberty is rough, there's all sorts of chemicals and adjustments, you can barely even think straight. And this is obvious; girls aren't thinking straight. The spike in violence could easily be accounted for the 'living in the moment' mentality. Girls, as well as boys, make rash, sudden decisions with little or no thought about the consequences. They do the first thing that pops into mind, but keep in mind the adolescent mind is a chaotic thing.
   I get it, the teenage years are such  hard times to go through, for me it certainly hasn't been an enjoyable experience. It's hard because you are coming to a vital part of your life, starting on the path of self discovery, breaking away from being a part of your parents identity and becoming your own person. People expect things from you, and a lot of pressure can be placed on you to live up to their expectations; to please everyone, believe me I understand. It's enough to make you feel crazy sometimes, to make you feel helpless, overwhelmed, I know it all too well. My head often feels like pressure is just building inside of it, just expanding and expanding to the point of near bursting, but that's just those teenage hormones I suppose. You want to please everyone, so you put yourself through hell, smiling the whole way through it, just hoping someone will finally be appeased, but you can only bend so much before you break. At one point you're going to realize that you can never live up to everyone's expectations, and you're going to let some people down. And as hard as that is, it's a part of life. Stop living for everyone else, stop putting so much pressure on yourself, don't bend to the point of breaking, because when you break who knows what you'll do, probably something that similar to those teenage girls on the tv shows. Some pressure is good but when it gets to the point that you're making yourself sick, to the point when you sleep for 3 hours on A GOOD night, or to the point when you feel as if you're head is going to explode  and you're going to break down, then you need to learn to stop caring about other's opinions of you. I'm learning this now the hard way, I don't want to be another statistic. Not another girl who has cracked under pressure, acted on impulse and ruined her life.

    The article "Have Girls Really Grown More Violent" was booooooring. Heavy on logos, using a lot of statistics that both shocked me, and sent shivers down my spine. It was a short article though, so I extended it with an emotional rsponse. There wasn't a whole lot of pathos, but I'm just good at pulling pathos out of things where it isn't really intended to be there.

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