Bullies are everywhere. And the problem just gets worse over time. I was a kid in the Sixties, and the bullying was godawful then, but it seems that the problem today is far, far worse. I could be wrong because I doubt that there were any statistics kept on the subject back then, but today it seems they do their bullying on twice as many targets per bully, twice as many bullies per target, and they pull three times as many incidents as in former times.
It's a favorite meme among idiots that children OUGHT to go to public school (where they're supposed to get picked on) so they can learn to be tough. I think no stupider thing has ever been said. You don't heal a broken bone by breaking it again; you don't get rid of a bruise by poking it over and over and over; you don't toughen up a sensitive kid by giving him third degree burns; and you can't teach a kid self-assurance with the daily reminder that he's someone else's garbage.
The terrible thing is that bullies can recognize bully-bait from a hundred miles off. And they know just what to do. Is this good? Is it right that 1/3 of the kids going to public school should use the place as a training field to become little Nazis?
Is it good for their targets? Are you really stupid enough to think that training young people to be doormats for the meanest people on earth is good for them?
If that's your position, I'm sure you used to be a bully yourself. And if so, you can join us in the discussion, offering insights to their mental processes.
What do I hope to achieve with this website?
I want to equip people with textual examples of how other people have dealt with their bullies so that with luck, their targets could learn how, themselves. Usually bullies pick out those who have no defenses. The targets get upset, they cry, they try to ignore the bully, or they try to reason with them, but in any case they don't know how to deal with their bullies. If they did, the bullies wouldn't come back for more.
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