For the most part, both the goody-two-shoes girls and the cool girls ignored and sometimes stigmatized the geeky boys, although members of the goody-two-shoes girls and the geeky boys increasingly formed friendships and even romantic relationships in later years. In sixth grade, however, many girls from both cliques routinely described the geeky boys as “annoying” and “gross,” and they chided them for various offenses such as a perceived inattention to hygiene. Among the geeky boys, however, these put-downs were often inverted and worn honorably as a marker of group distinction. In addition to figuring the geeky boys as not feminine, their displays of affinity for violent games signified autonomy from educators and parents who for the most part found the games’ hyperviolent and hypermasculine themes distasteful.