Odd Girl Out will be the center of attention on Monday, April 4, at 9 p.m., when Lifetime Television airs its original movie based on the 2002 bestseller by Rachel Simmons. The movie stars Alexa Vega of Spy Kids as Vanessa Snyder, a popular teen who becomes ostracized, and Lisa Vidal of The Division as her mother.
Subtitled The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls (Harcourt, $14), the book examines what Simmons calls "alternative aggression"--girls bullying other girls. PW wrote: "For Simmons, the restraints that society imposes to prevent girls from venting feelings of competition, jealousy and anger is largely to blame for this type of bullying. It forces girls to turn their lives into 'a perverse game of Twister,' where their only outlets for expressing negative feelings are covert looks, turned backs and whispers. Since the events at Columbine, some schools have taken steps to curb relational aggression. For those that haven't, Simmons makes an impassioned plea that no form of bullying be permitted."
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