Well I guess, though this is a girl that seems to outwardly hate other girls believing them all to by petty lying back stabbers. I was thinking more along the lines of "she's a slut' or "she sleeps with all those guys and thats why they keep her around" . But the one about her secretly being a boy could work.
edited 11th Dec '10 3:42:34 PM by JewelyJ
Fucking cunt. Fucking whore. Fucking bitch. Fucking cuntwhorebitch.
Girls are not very imaginative.
Read my stories!^^ It's a stupid immature thing I could imagine stupid immature people saying. "She's a tomboy" "Lol that must mean she's got a dick". Since teenagers tend to be ignorant about gender/sexuality stuff, I could see how a rumor about one having abnormal genitalia would lead to derision.
Like that one rumor about Monica Lewinsky having three breasts. Hell, people even said that about Anne Boleyn.
edited 11th Dec '10 3:48:15 PM by melloncollie
Girls who are trying to be mean about another girl will generally go after her sexuality (either that she's easy or that she's a lesbian) or her appearance (she's fat, she's ugly, she has ugly or unfashionable clothing, make-up or hairstyle, or some combination of them). If she's slender, they may go for accusations that she anorexic or bulemic, instead of "fat".
"Slut" is usually an appellation hung on girls by guys, and it happens when said girl is fucking someone other than the guy using the nickname. It does happen with girls as well.
In general, people assign negative value to character traits about people they don't like. Someone is assertive and outgoing? "<so and so> never shuts up" according to the haters. He/She is pretty? "<so and so> is so vain/slutty". Intelligent? "They're so damn arrogant". You get the idea.
Look at your character through a negative filter, and don't be afraid to make things up out of whole cloth. It's how the rumor mill functions, after all.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~That's a hell of a prank.
Maybe "can't take a joke" could get included somewhere, or some sort of justification (e.g. "she's so <blank>, she deserved to get flattened by a railroad car") for the nasty joke could make the rounds.
People are also quick to justify their bad behavior after all.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~^very true.
I'm still working on the details of the prank but what I have at the moment is the bullies throwing something extremely important to the main character at the tracks and the MC tries to get it before getting almost flattened.
Maybe something like a gift from her father or something.
edited 11th Dec '10 6:40:13 PM by JewelyJ
Also, a good idea is to throw in a scene where your protagonist's tormentors are sitting around patting each other on the back for their attitudes and reinforcing their beliefs. That's what such people do.
However, be sure to make it where their dislike of her stems from something real and believable. Villains who are "just bad" lose their connection to the audience really quickly.
And its easier to sympathize with an imperfect hero.
Perhaps you could write where, by some people's yardstick, your protagonist could be considered guilty and deserving of the fate she's been given.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~Well the way I have it she wasn't deserving of the railroad trick but she is kinda to blame for some girls not liking her because of her downright hostile attitude towards them and assumption that they're petty bitches.
Ever since the prank and her parents' divorce she has openly despised other girls putting the inn categories of vapid gossipy airheads' and bitchy backstabbing posers'. There's only about one or two girls in her school that were involved in the prank and the other girls know of it through hearsay.
Daniela's(the main character) character growth stems from learning not to blame all the female peers she meets for the actions of a few. She realizes that her hostile nature and catty comments about 'backstabbing brats' make her almost as bad as the girls she hates sometimes.
Also as for why the original bullies didn't like her I'm not sure but why they hate her now is her grudge , her angry nature and refusal to let go.
edited 11th Dec '10 6:51:20 PM by JewelyJ
I've noticed that women frequently, when really what they don't like about another woman is her personality or behavior or whatever, don't criticize that, but instead criticize her appearance — even if, to a neutral observer, there's nothing particularly noteworthy to criticize.
I'm not sure why that behavior gets ingrained, but it appears to.
A brighter future for a darker age.^^ Because, as we all know, it's impossible to be sexually attracted to someone and be platonic friends with them.
edited 12th Dec '10 2:33:51 AM by RavenWilder
Fucking cunt. Fucking whore. Fucking bitch. Fucking cuntwhorebitch.
Your beginning to sound like my sister-in-law at every Christmas...
Girls tend to be more vindictive and dishonourable than boys, I can see them spreading ridiculous yet damaging rumours rather then outright jests. They are going to call a girl a lesbian if they think it is going to make her feel bad, logic need not apply.
edited 12th Dec '10 4:20:38 AM by joeyjojo
hashtagsarestupidThat a good thing or a bad thing?
Read my stories!

I have a main character who's an angry teen with divorced parents hangs out with boys because she doesn't trust girls and gets in fights with girls. What rumors could other girls come up with about her and what things could they do to her to push her over the edge.