Bullies have more sex appeal & a higher social standing says new studies

Daily Moan wrote:Bullies have more sex appeal and a higher social standing than everyone else, research has found.



Child bullies are well adjusted people who are coldly calculating and intimidate others because it makes them more popular.

Later in life they have more dates and more sex than the rest of their former classmates, the study showed.

The findings challenge the theory held by many that bullies learn their behaviour from their dysfunctional parents.

In fact there is nothing wrong with them and they are just using bullying as a ‘tool’ to get ahead.

The two Canadian studies may go some way to explaining why celebrity bullies like Gordon Ramsay are a hit with women - even though they have explosive tempers.

Simon Fraser University criminologist Jennifer Wong surveyed 135 teenagers from a high school in Vancouver with a questionnaire about bullying.

The pupils were asked how often they were hit, kicked or shoved and from that they were divided into categories; bully, bystander, victim or victim-bully.

The results showed that bullies, who accounted for around 11 per cent of the group, scored highest when it came to social status and self-esteem.

They also came lowest when it came to depression.

Miss Wong said the study showed that punishing a bully does not often work and in fact could enhance bullies’ social status through notoriety.

She said: ‘Humans tend to try to establish a rank hierarchy.

‘When you’re in high school, it’s a very limited arena in which you can establish your rank, and climbing the social ladder to be on top is one of the main ways.

‘Bullying is a tool you can use to get there.’

Preliminary findings of a separate study by Brock University psychologist Tony Volk backed up the conclusions.

He has been piloting a project in a school in Arizona to channel bullies’ anger by doing high profile tasks such as the front door greeter.

Mr Volk said among the 178 teenagers he studied the instances of bullying fell ‘dramatically’ after the programme was introduced.

Mr Volk said that having a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to bullying doesn’t work because bullies were smart and feel that they are being told: ‘Give us this behavior that’s benefiting you for nothing’.

Instead we should offer them incentives which give them something in exchange for modifying how they act.

Mr Volk said his findings showed that 10percent of bullies are what he called ‘bully victims’ who are what we imagine them to be; children who learned their behavior from other people such as their parents.

But the other 90percent are what he called ‘pure bullies’ who ‘don’t seem to show any kind of social or cognitive deficits’.
Mr Volk said: ‘They have the good social skills, they’re just using them in a bad way’.

Not only that, they get more sex too.

Mr Volk said: ‘Our preliminary research shows that they do have more dates but in particular the data is really clear for sex behaviour.

‘Bullies as young adolescents or as university students are getting more sexual partners and are less likely to be virgins than victims or people who are not involved in bullying.’

Both studies were first reported by the National Post, a Canadian newspaper.

KKLEIN wrote:http://www.dailyfail.co.uk/news/article ... gests.html

Well looking at the bullies I went to school with would seem to indicate this study is, in fact, bollocks.

Moggy wrote:Thinking about the bullies from my school, I can't think of any of them that have gone on to good things. They might be getting laid a lot (I have no idea) but they pretty much all ended up as Jeremy Kyle guest scum.

The only exception to that was a particularly nasty kid who would push people around and call them "bender", "gay", "queers" etc etc. Shockingly he came out as gay a few years after leaving school.

We should have all guessed, he was obsessed with WWF (wrestling not saving animals) and was always reading WWF magazine at break time. I am stunned that somebody that called others gay and read this magazine turned out to be gay himself.

Irene Demova wrote:Plus sixth form being optional means that they all tend to disappear from the school before anything to do with sex becomes relevant on a measurable scale.

The whole article's typical daily mail though where they're selectively quoting two separate studies to get a conclusion that draws headlines

Karl wrote:American high schools do seem to have a kind of 'jocks vs. nerds' culture, whereas bullies here are more likely to be misfits that everyone secretly hates.

KKLEIN wrote:

Moggy wrote:Thinking about the bullies from my school, I can't think of any of them that have gone on to good things. They might be getting laid a lot (I have no idea) but they pretty much all ended up as Jeremy Kyle guest scum.

The only exception to that was a particularly nasty kid who would push people around and call them "bender", "gay", "queers" etc etc. Shockingly he came out as gay a few years after leaving school.

We should have all guessed, he was obsessed with WWF (wrestling not saving animals) and was always reading WWF magazine at break time. I am stunned that somebody that called others gay and read this magazine turned out to be gay himself.

I have that magazine. Hot stuff.