Moral Panic and the Nasty Girl

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  Baroon and Lacombe’s "Moral Panic and the Nasty Girl" indicates the society is constantly giving more freedom and power to women, but the media denounces this is making girls become violence and “nasty girl”. The media had portrayed violent females to be viewed as 'monsters' due to exaggeration and distortion, and had resulted in a moral panic. In order to argue with the media’s prejudice. Barron and Lacombe effectively use logos in the article to persuade the reader to think that "nasty girl" is an over serious word which is created by media, and it’s an incorrect attitude toward feminism. To prove their argument, they show evidences that "violent crime dropped 5% in 1999, signally a decline for the fourth year in a row" (Baroon&Lacombe 328). This criminal statistics clearly demonstrate their point that girls aren't getting more violent, and aren’t becoming “Nasty girl." Barron and Lacombe successfully use logos to deny the negative judgments toward girls such as “Nasty girl” and girls are violent. The society encourages gender equality, and provides chances and power to women, but it has no ability to change girls into cruel, violent monsters. We shouldn’t only base on the media’s prejudice to backlash against feminism.

Question: What examples of the Nasty Girl have you witnessed?