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JewelyJ from A state in the USA Since: Jul, 2009
#1: Dec 11th 2010 at 3:34:55 PM

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.

melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#2: Dec 11th 2010 at 3:37:26 PM

I would imagine stuff like "she's a lesbian" or "she's got a dick" or "she likes giving blowjobs for a dollar" would not be implausible.

edited 11th Dec '10 3:38:04 PM by melloncollie

JewelyJ from A state in the USA Since: Jul, 2009
#3: Dec 11th 2010 at 3:40:20 PM

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

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#4: Dec 11th 2010 at 3:41:58 PM

Fucking cunt. Fucking whore. Fucking bitch. Fucking cuntwhorebitch.

Girls are not very imaginative.

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melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#5: Dec 11th 2010 at 3:45:28 PM

^^ 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

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#6: Dec 11th 2010 at 4:08:05 PM

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".

OnTheOtherHandle Since: Feb, 2010
#7: Dec 11th 2010 at 4:29:29 PM

"Slut" is the most common insult I hear around the halls, followed by "lesbian", and simply "bitch".

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drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
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#8: Dec 11th 2010 at 5:52:57 PM

"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.

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JewelyJ from A state in the USA Since: Jul, 2009
#9: Dec 11th 2010 at 6:16:05 PM

^Well to be honest I can sorta see 'bitch'. She seems to hate most other girls because of an event when she was younger where some girls played a cruel prank on her that resulted in her jeans getting stuck on an old railroad track and nearly flattened by a passing cart.

drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
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#10: Dec 11th 2010 at 6:25:37 PM

That's a hell of a prank. sad

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.

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JewelyJ from A state in the USA Since: Jul, 2009
#11: Dec 11th 2010 at 6:34:50 PM

^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

drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
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#12: Dec 11th 2010 at 6:42:12 PM

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~
JewelyJ from A state in the USA Since: Jul, 2009
#13: Dec 11th 2010 at 6:44:44 PM

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

SandJosieph Since: Dec, 2009
#14: Dec 11th 2010 at 6:54:38 PM

Why would you call a girl who hangs out with boys a lesbian? O_o

Anyway, "Fucking trap" comes to mind.

Morven Nemesis from Seattle, WA, USA Since: Jan, 2001
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#15: Dec 12th 2010 at 2:17:50 AM

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.

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#17: Dec 12th 2010 at 4:12:47 AM

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

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Zolnier The Odd Lad from A suspiciously dull shop Since: Apr, 2009
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#18: Dec 12th 2010 at 6:12:55 AM

"She's trans-gender and that's why she hangs out with those louts"

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#19: Dec 12th 2010 at 6:34:26 AM

They would definitely attack her sense of sexually identify, there is limitless potential for self loathing there.

edited 12th Dec '10 6:34:44 AM by joeyjojo

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Zolnier The Odd Lad from A suspiciously dull shop Since: Apr, 2009
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#20: Dec 12th 2010 at 7:01:07 AM

Hey if she looks a little boyish they could say she's taking hormones.

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#21: Dec 12th 2010 at 7:08:19 AM

Or could say that she has Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome and than she is 'really' a boy, that would total fuck her up if it got out.

edited 12th Dec '10 7:08:37 AM by joeyjojo

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Zolnier The Odd Lad from A suspiciously dull shop Since: Apr, 2009
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#22: Dec 12th 2010 at 7:26:03 AM

Say she's like those Russian woman athletes that were discovered to be XXY.

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#23: Dec 12th 2010 at 7:49:11 AM

three chromosomes? those greedy bitches.

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Zolnier The Odd Lad from A suspiciously dull shop Since: Apr, 2009
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#24: Dec 12th 2010 at 7:58:48 AM

No that's wasn't a mistake they did have a Y chromosome along with their two Xs.

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MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#25: Dec 12th 2010 at 8:06:48 AM

Your beginning to sound like my sister-in-law at every Christmas...

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