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To: Poet who wrote (16)	2/28/2002 10:58:23 AM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

I know that, and know that it's evolutionary psychology in action. But do you recall meanness so unchained when you were in the 6th and 7th grades? I recall it in early childhood, but that article described an extremeness I didn't witness and most certainly didn't participate in. In those grades I was in private schools with very small classes, so maybe that made a difference. I've been trying to think of whether persecutions were going on in the periphery where I wasn't watching, but I don't think so. For example, there was an extremely homely girl who was, I would say, pathologically shy, in my high school. I never heard her voice. The teachers didn't ever call on her, and I now realize that that must have been by arrangement. I felt sorry for her and tried to speak to her, but she fled. She hung her head down in a certain way so that her hair always almost covered her face. I remember her and her mysterious situation clearly enough that if someone had teased her, I would remember that. She was left alone, at least enough so that nothing happened in front of me. I somehow blame television for the extremeness of some of that behavior.