" Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry."

But for girls, the surest and safest way to avoid being picked on or terrorized is to get the bully to like you. "

― , Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life