metascribe quoted Bullying Scars by Ellen Walser deLara
An explosion of research on bullying has raised our collective awareness of the serious impacts …
[. . .] those who considered themselves to be more attractive than their peers also more often were bullied, more often bullied others, more often observed sexual bullying, and more often had friends who participated in sexual harassment than peers who rated themselves just average in attractiveness.
— Bullying Scars by Ellen Walser deLara (Page 122)
Interesting. Perhaps those who self-rate highly in attractiveness engage in bullying to preserve self-image in the context of sexual rivalry, whereas those who bully those who self-rate highly in attractiveness may do so either in retaliation or for the same or similar reasons, suggesting the bullying occurs largely among themselves with some instances of bullying by those who self-rate average attractiveness.