Their classmates said they often caused fights and disruptions. These popular tough kids were more violence-prone than a group of socially rejected boys who also got into fights. The data provide indirect evidence that the popular violent boys are bullies. That's probably because the unpopular boys are their victims. Our society has ambivalent feelings about male violence, an ambivalence that's reflected in student social structure.
Movies help cause our interest in violence, but they also reflect it.
If a boy is aggressive and shy, he won't be popular. But if he's aggressive and athletic, he can be. Sometimes violence is functional. Aggression is devalued for girls. That's deeply entrenched in our culture.