By Marie Moeller ‘15

After witnessing a confrontation between two girls, I started thinking about crazy, psycho girlfriends who are overly possessive of their boyfriends. Like many others, I thought such events were only plausible in a movie or book setting; I was rather unpleasantly proven wrong. Just like the movies, the girlfriend was verbally attacking another girl, targeting her rather than the boyfriend. It is this other girl that people are mad at, calling her a slut. Rumors float around presuming that this girl was supposedly with the boyfriend, but it does not matter if she was or was not. It should not matter because in the end the boyfriend should equally share the blame.

Why do we, as teenage girls or even just as females, automatically cast the other girl as the one at fault while the boy gets off the hook? Why do we call her names as a result of mere speculation? When we have all gone through the woes of relationships, one would think we can find more civil ways to resolve such conflicts without degrading other girls, especially in a society that degrades us so much already.