POLL: Are girls meaner than boys?

I'm going to have to disagree with the majority here, and say it's about 50/50. Girls and boys are both equally mean. Those who say a specific gender is meaner, they only say that through their experience, not because it's a sheer fact. Boys are more physically damaging and girls are more psychologically damaging. Both are mean and can have longer-lasting effects.

If you get into fights with boys you could walk away with permanent scars, bruises, broken bones or a lost limb. Quarrels with girls can severely damage your self-esteem, self-confidence, pride, reputation, it can humiliate/embarass you and tie you down to emotional nothingness. I've experienced both kinds of physical and social damage through the two genders....BOTH WERE UNPLEASANT.

I think that girls can be psychologically meaner. I refuse, however, to believe that this behavior is "just in their nature". Parents, the media, and our culture all influence girls and women. It doesn't have to be this way.

As a mother of three daughters, I find this question extremely interesting.
My oldest daughter was very quiet, never fought, or argued, unless picked on. Then AFTER the fight all would be good..
My middle daughter was very involved in school and other activities, quite a people person, even at a young age. She still is the same.
My youngest daughter was ALWAYS right, fought, argued, hard-headed and STILL DOES all the above!! LOL
So I guess it all depends on the girl, and the situation!!

I have 4 boys and 2 girls, and yes my girls are meaner and ruder. I used to think it was because of their brothers, but it's just them. My boys are always asking can they help around the house, but my girls just want to lounge around and be divas! I prefer to have girls because they are not as hard headed, but girls are meaner than boys because it IS in thier nature!!!!

physically boys may be the meaner, but emotionally i've seen girls shred each other apart.

As a woman raised in a house with only sisters (poor Dad), who is raising an only child (a boy) I can say a fully-unqualified OH HELL, YES.

But that's just my opinion ;)

Yes, we are meaner. Much meaner. This is why most of my close friends are male. So much easier to interact with.

That's why (ignorant) men like to use the term bitch at us so much. Truth is, a LOT of women are bitchy.

YES! I've always said this. I've explained to my guy-friends the difference between guy mean and girl mean in almost those exact words. Guys get mad, punch each other, hurt each other, have huge fights; but then its done. They are either friends or they don't speak to each other afterwards. Thats it. They get angry, they act, the end. Girls however have goals. They can let things sit forever and then just attack. They want to emotionally scar eachother. They want to get in eachother's heads and make each other cry themselves to sleep. They want the other person to suffer, while guys don't want anything: they are just mad. This is why I have mostly guy-friends. I can handle a punch; I can't handle endless drama.

I have to agree, Girls are meaner than boys. But to a certain extend, I think it can be equal opportunity. I have known quite a few guys, that were pure mean. But I definitely have dealt with more girls who are of the purest evil.
I personally think, its the difference in men and women that makes us. We tend to think of every possibility and result where guys just think of one way and go with it. Mentally we are always planning and can be devious. But something about it must be good, because guys can't get enough.

Men and women are different. It doesn't mean though that girls can be or should be allowed to be meaner. I know guys who are mean (that's why, although it's unfair, some people brand them as having a mouth of a woman). I can't understand how a woman can say that's why she has mostly or all male friends because she finds other women bitchy. I have a bunch of female friends and some of them I would have chosen to be my sisters. I also have good male friends. I can't help but think, when women say other women are just too bitchy to be friends with, do they just somehow find their way to these mean women or they are mean themselves.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

I am guilty of being mean and doing it for the sake of drama. I eat it up. Always have, especially with a younger sister to help fuel it.

YES. Guys may go at it, but they don't go at each others throats for teeny tiny issues.

I disagree. Boys are meaner. The only reason you aren't seeing them post is because the don't know how to express the hurt/anger that they are caused.
I work with men in man-dominated field. Men are just as big of gossiping-backstabbing hens as you will ever see. The 'pack' mentality is with both men and women, it's HUMAN nature. You just don't see it because men just don't talk about it.

I've said this for years. As a gender we are taught at the youngest ages by our roll models to be b!tches.

If you want friends you can't just be nice to everyone, because being nice to the wrong person means that you can't be friends with the popular group and thus become an outcast.

(Later) If you want the guy you can't just prove how wonderful you are you have to prove that plus how the other girls are (you can fill in the blank here).

Guys will beat the crap out of each other and it's done - they can be friends forever after that- because they confront it.

Girls try to make you develop eating disorders or self esteem issues or anything else you can inflict upon yourself - because we are taught that you can't confront, you can't have ugly emotions in public, you have to be nice to everyone. (Awful cycle isn't it.)

Heck yeah,we girls are way meaner.We attack on the emotional level and some try to leave you tramatized for life!!But boys are just mostly physical,though i have seen some guys get catty in fights.

Oh, and I forgot to say: That movie Mean Girls? Well, although it was a little extreme I find that girls actually DO these sorts of things to each other. It was a little extreme but not that far from the truth.

yup i mean im a bitch maself

As a high school teacher I watch the cruel and ugly behavior between girls daily. They will grow up to be mean and ugly women. My mom always told me not to become a back-biting, conniving female - boy, was she right!