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You guys don't look like you are doing shit so maybe one of you can help a beginner out.

Having a hard time understanding 浴びせられる (why is it in passive form) in "玲子を取り囲みながら浴びせられる嘲りの言葉". From the beginning of the sentence "玲子を取り囲み" I'm understanding that the subject is the people surrounding her, and not her. So I'm seeing the whole sentence as something like "while (they) surround Reiko, (they) shower her with scornful words", but 浴びせる being in passive form doesn't fit with that which means I'm surely wrong in my interpretation. The one being showered with scornful words, from context, is surely Reiko, so I thought I could maybe think as if Reiko was actually the subject and not the people surrounding her, but then it wouldn't make sense with the first half of the sentence because it would be like she was surrounding herself which is retarded.
浴びせる being in passive in this sentence makes it look to me like whatever is surrounding Reiko is the thing being showered with scornful words but then it doesn't fit the context because the people surrounding her are not the ones being acted upon, they are the ones acting.

I know this question probably retarded as fuck but that's how bad I am at the moment. I need help.