You see this behavior from young girls in middle school right up to women in adulthood. You see it with boys on the playground right up to men on the job. A Progressive education and institutions whether they be religious, civic, or social can be attenuating factors to this apparent carnal behavior.
Hate mongers like many Right Wing Talk radio and TV talk show hosts with cult like following can have a different effect. One need only listen to the barrage of attacks on our Muslim brothers and sisters that are a direct effect of these hosts using our group think defect as a baton of attack.
It is time that we call this out now. It is time that we write letters to the editors as well as calling in to these stations to let them know we do not intend to go back to the prejudice of the past.