Big news! I've just found out that there's already a film called "Odd
Girl Out", which seems to be based on this book. You can order it
from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com and here's exactly where to
find it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Odd-Girl-Out-REGION-
NTSC/dp/B000BYA5GY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1226082700&sr=8-1

Unfortunately, this DVD is coded in NTSC, so you'll probably have to
play it on your computer.

I thought I should also mention that Poison/Zak likes joining all
female groups and going to nightclubs which discriminate against men
in any of various ways, such as "all men must be accompanied by a
woman". This is actually against the law, but not enough has been
done about it yet. She also seems to think that any woman she meets
who has red hair is autmomatically her leader and she'll do whatever
they tell her to.

BTW, Chesh was also involved in isolating me from the group, but I
forgot to mention this before, because she wasn't actually there on
the night that things came to a head, but posted nasty messages to me
in LWA after that.

--- In publicmouth@..., "Steve" <roughcut2001@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In publicmouth@..., "Drum" <tobystevenson@> wrote:
> >
> > Just to let all know that Wolfhound Pup (Jem Dowse0 has started a
> > looters group (called Looters) on Facebook. Poison is there along
> with
> > Blue Unicorn, Wolfie and Vampire Cat.
> > Seeya there
> > Dx
> >
>
> That's great! I'm not a member of Facebook yet, so this should
> encourage me to join. Can someone point out to me the differences
> between Facebook and MySpace? I can't remember why I haven't joined
> Facebook yet.
>
> I want to join the Looters Facebook group to give Poison (alias
Zak)
> some stick. This is because Poison/Zak is or was a member of a gang
> which isolated me from a group, forcing me to leave LWA. This is a
form
> of bullying or harassment. To get a good idea why Zak and the
others
> (i.e. Sebbi, Black Panther, and Vike) would have done this, you
should
> try and read the book "Odd Girl Out" by Rachel Simmons, which you
can
> find details of on www.rachelsimmons.com . Unfortunately, this book
is
> very heavy going and it took me about a year to read it, after I
> originally saw it featured on Oprah. I think there may be a short
video
> somewhere on the site which tells you the gist of it. The full
title of
> the book is "Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in
Girls".
> This tells the story of how girls at school form cliques or "cool
> groups" to feel superior to other girls and harrass them. They also
> often exclude a member from their group, sometimes just by the
> ringleader saying "We don't talk to her anymore", leaving them
isolated
> with hardly any friends left. What it doesn't mention is that this
> behaviour sometimes continues after leaving school and that boys
and
> men should be careful they don't hang round with a group of girls
or
> women like this, because they can never join this clique, but can
be
> isolated by it. I think someone should make a film based on this
book,
> so more people can get the message instead of giving up after
reading
> about two pages. I think the TV series "Popular"
> http://www.tv.com/popular/popular-round-one-
1/episode/2214/summary.html?
> tag=ep_list;title;0 was based on this kind of thing, but I didn't
watch
> it, especially because it seemed one of the main bullies was
blonde,
> but in real life a lot of or most of the ringleaders have red hair.
The
> phrase "She's popular" or "She's very popular" whenever or wherever
you
> hear it means "She's a bully" or "She's not only a bully, but the
> ringleader". I hope to read the follow up book "Odd Girl Speaks
Out",
> but I don't know if I'll live long enough!
>