<p>" Being popular correlates with being skilled at popularity skills. Those skills include manipulating other people. So, yeah, being popular correlates with being nasty to those lower on the totem pole, because that’s how you get popular"</p>
<p>Cardinal Fang, it seems your experiences are entirely different from mine. I have not observed popular girls being nasty or manipulative. I have observed them being outgoing, friendly, and clever enough to amuse others and carry on interesting conversations. And being good looking is a genetic fluke.</p>
<p>No one deserves to have ugly rumours told about her. Even if she has somehow earned your disapproval by being social and pretty.</p>