Mean Girls

I was brainstorming ideas for this blog post, and I had a total eureka moment.  A question that I have been bouncing around for years is this; why are girls so much more vicious than boys?  I am sure that every girl in Academy has come across a girl who has just been down right nasty.  Recently I had an encounter with one of these type of girls.  She stole my cell phone and read through my text messages learning all sorts of things about my friends, then told someone what she had read in the messages creating even more drama.  But, why don't we hear stories like this from boys?

It is  a problem that starts very young.  I personally know a fifth grader who has so much stress from the "mean girls" at her school that the skin on her finger tips is falling off.  She literally has to take steroids in attempts to grow the skin back.  The school also failed to acknowledge the girl was having a problem at school until her father called.  Her mother had called several times too, but they brushed her off as merely an over concerned mom.  To me this is absolutely horrifying.  What can schools, parents, and or teachers do to try and stop the maliciousness amongst girls, and why is the school sexist against mothers advocating for their children?

 I would like to know what you guys think about this.  Does this all boil down to gender divisions and what girls are taught to do?  Is it innate; are girls just truly meaner than boys?