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“Girl fights” are usually one female bullying another and rarely equally-weighted

13 replies

MonsterMunchLabubu · 10/11/2025 14:13

I’m autistic, so I’ve often been bullied.

Whenever I’ve been bullied by females, it’s always dismissed by others as “silly girl fights”, even when I’ve done nothing to provoke it or respond to it?

I have noticed this trend when friends etc have been bullied too.

OP posts:
Ihavenoideawhatmyusernameis · 10/11/2025 15:00

I 100% agree with you!

my daughter is autistic and was very good friends with an allistic female who, for the last year suddenly bullied her horrifically. Completely out of the blue and all because she found another girl who was “easier” to get along with! The girls mother, when challenged, told me it wasn’t bullying because her daughter remembered incidents differently therefore it never happened! Fuck me!!

I'm also autistic and have often felt/been treated this way and have observed this with other people over the years. It’s not uncommon unfortunately

JHound · 10/11/2025 15:00

“Female”.

MonsterMunchLabubu · 10/11/2025 15:42

JHound · 10/11/2025 15:00

“Female”.

I used “female” as a collective term for “women and girls”.

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TwinkleTwinkleLittleBatgirl · 10/11/2025 15:55

Are you meaning physical fights or arguments?

SleeplessIntheOnyxNight · 10/11/2025 15:58

I’m not autistic and have also been bullied.

I find it is always brushed off whether it be boys or girls, my DC’s school will do absolutely anything other than use the B word, everything is always minimised.

ComtesseDeSpair · 10/11/2025 16:15

Is there a bit more context as to what all these fights are over / about? Who are they with? If you’re frequently getting into arguments and fights with other women, other people are more likely to begin to trivialise them and see them as rather silly.

Ihavenoideawhatmyusernameis · 10/11/2025 16:16

SleeplessIntheOnyxNight · 10/11/2025 15:58

I’m not autistic and have also been bullied.

I find it is always brushed off whether it be boys or girls, my DC’s school will do absolutely anything other than use the B word, everything is always minimised.

same with my daughters school! Apparently, it’s offensive to the bully’s parents! 🙄

I gently reminded the school that im
offended by
a) the child bullying my child
b) them minimising abusive behaviour so they don’t have to deal with it!

fuckers!!

TheBirches · 10/11/2025 16:18

ComtesseDeSpair · 10/11/2025 16:15

Is there a bit more context as to what all these fights are over / about? Who are they with? If you’re frequently getting into arguments and fights with other women, other people are more likely to begin to trivialise them and see them as rather silly.

Yes, this was my immediate response.

JHound · 10/11/2025 16:46

This is not my experience. Maybe it’s just you OP.

ThatChristmasMug · 10/11/2025 16:54

TwinkleTwinkleLittleBatgirl · 10/11/2025 15:55

Are you meaning physical fights or arguments?

That

Not being invited somewhere is enough to be called "bullying" by some, so really...

Redpeach · 10/11/2025 17:21

Not really, sisters fight too

BauhausOfEliott · 10/11/2025 17:47

Just because you and some of your friends have experienced being bullied, that doesn't mean your experience is the norm.

I went to an all-girl school and in my own experience, fights/arguments/whatever were usually very much a case of 'six of one and half a dozen of the other'.

ForTipsyFinch · 10/11/2025 18:10

Describing other women as ‘females’ is telling on your part too though. I haven’t known a woman who does that who hasn’t had a ton of internalised misogyny to work through.

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