Nice post Herding Cats and for me your words were quite easily understood..I believe what has always been called and referred to as just "bullying" and "mean girls" that many instances which have been labeled and place in this catagory quite likely if looked at, the details would actually quite clearly show that it also very much fits into the "stalking" catagory..
So, to clarify what im trying to say(as i now feel as tho my thoughts are coming out a bit jumbled as well..lol)..my point is that the whole uniqueness or newness to female stalking, and even more so multiple female(group) stalking is in fact nothing "new" at all but just has never been classified as stalking..imo when looking at the decades and decades of cases involving girls "bullying" and "mean girls" you clearly see that they absolutely bear the classic markers associated with stalking..
As I am typing this off the top of my head on my tablet with NOT having googled around for any back up or sources(due to the fact hubby&I are sitting here in the pitch dark with our street along with the street over both having lost power suddenly&without warning..zero storms or even rain period..so we're sitting here saying its likely someone from one of the neighboring pubs may have had one too many at happy hour&ran into an electric pole, transformer, or God knows what??..just hopefully not another vehicle..if thats the case I think I can grin&bear a few hours without electric..anyhoo sorry for that waaaay OT)..but as I said didnt search around for any specific cases due to my attempting to preserve what tablet battery I can
..but for example what I am speaking about I know first hand was alive and well and thriving throughout the females of my jr high/sr high school days..vicious doesnt even begin to describe what young females would gang up and do to a lone female(and 9 times outta 10 you better believe not only was that lone female a "threat")...but the majority of times would be beyond beautiful both inside&out..was respected and adored by peers and adult authorities as well..and believe me those things alone are what made her the target of the "mean girls"..but imo those mean girls were exhibiting every bit of stalking behaviors as well..it was part of the attack, mentally break down, humiliate, and annihilate that which was the threat to the mean girls...
That included stalking..yes, in some ways that could be construed as innocent and harmless but believe me their motives driving it were anything but innocent and harmless..they re intent was to harm, humiliate and to warn the female that she best "know and recognize her role"..to recognize as in know her place was not with the elite, in crowd, but rather she better cower, bow her head when she crosses their path, and dont even dare to make eye contact with people whose class is so elevated from your own.. They made the rounds of stalking her home, you know good ol harmless fun of "rolling" with toilet paper..except it was repeated on a weekly basis with each week only a little more to it, a little bit meaner, and alot more verbal with the trash talking tauntings written in shaving cream, whipped cream, tempera paints...it definitely escalates with time..
But hey isnt that alone what stalking is known for a fact to do...escalate..well, the same goes for the "mean girls" and the extensive amounts of brutal "bullying" that has been going on for decades and decades with absolute zero male involvement..these decades of building of female on female crime just technically has never been placed in the stalking classification, tho clearly you can see that every single trait and characteristic of "stalking" is more than present in BOTH the "mean girls" and "bullying" classifications...
I wont continue to drone on about the subject(especially due to my NOT sourcing any specific named cases due to my battery level..lol)and therefor just mainly giving you the generalities of what some of the actual mean girls/bullying/stalking girl on girl brutalities ive witnessed in my day and that theyve been thriving as well as escalating for some time now...almost under the radar in a sense..especially in my highschool days, the mid nineties when I graduated and I can attest for a fact that in that era that these brutalities, these all out mental and emotional war fares on beautiful, lone girls targeted within their schools....there was no refuge for them...there were no consequences for their torturers..infact if anything many times when the lone girl spoke up to teachers, coaches, cheerleading sponsors..well..they basically were punished for tattling, called a p****, and then mocked and berated by coaches and teachers as well(and by no means am i attempting to say all teachers/coaches took part in this type thing)..but u better believe there were many that did..and I am more than certain there still are those who do and who are the very ones that allow and even encourage these all out attacks of physical, mental and emotional war fare on many many young women..
No matter what name you wanna give it..no matter what label you wanna place on it, or what catagory it gets classified under..its all one and the same and most importantly IT ALL STEMS FROM AND COMES FROM THE SAME PLACE..female insecurity, female jealousy, and inabilibity to coexist among other females who are in any way smart, attractive, or any other trait that one female finds threatening about another female..and Ive seen it and I know it..females can be so much more than beotches..Ive seen downright evil in the eyes of another female that hates your existence merely because your attractive with a good head on your shoulderss..evil exists within many hearts of the young, insecure, jealous females that somehow, someway manage to gain a little status, a little "power", and then her little posse who exist to merely make other females' lives miserable..
If anything Ive seen is the fact that in these exact type situations of which I speak..if a male(or even males) is/are to some how, even inadvertantly to get involved when these type targeted war fares on a lone female are taking place..as God as my witness it is the males that "hurt" and "feel" for the targeted female..and God help the poor lone, targeted female then..she only is further punished by the queen bee beotch due to the venemous anger she now has even more for the lone female...why u may ask?..because the male showed affection or feeling for the lone girl thereby only fueling the hatred and insecurities of the crazy witch doling out the heaping helpings of abuse toward the female she views as a threat...
Trust me its every bit STALKING...sadly the stalking is merely one of the many various forms of abuse in the "mean girls/bullying" girl on girl war fare that continues to be alive and well and as I mentioned earlier even encouraged in some schools, groups, and social circles..
All jmo..