Omnomnomnomnomnomnom *blech*!

I was rolling my eyes about that, too, rolling em until they popped— in what world is bullying considered "free speech"?? Big Gubmint can't come in and boss ME around if I want to shred my classmate's ego and shove him into a locker and break his glasses! Freeze Peach! Help help I'm being repressed!

Eerily enough, this same advice persists into adulthood, in quaint little backwards-looking institutions like our armed forces. When I was seeking escape from an abusive army guy in the early 90s, before I could even get the papertrail going, I got sent to a chaplain (despite having no religion), and he spouted pretty…

Someone experienced in manipulating both their victim and pubic opinion on the situation, definitely.

Makes you wonder how people ever perceive their own behavior, right?

Frightening, isn't it?

Straight up gaslighting, if you ask me.

It can be that. They can also be in denial.

"The problem is that the bully is hurting your self esteem. Now clearly, the best solution is for you to stop having any self esteem, so they have nothing to take away. If you hate yourself more than your bully is capable of hating you, then there's nothing they can do to you!"

Yup, my math teacher in high school in Denmark was a bully. My first year back from California (after eight years in the Cali school system) she asked me to do a proof in front of the class. I did the proof correctly, but I forgot the Danish word for it, and called it a "proof" in front of the class. When I was all…

Twisted minds.

That's what I didn't understand. This list is trying to convince the bullied child that the bully is really their friend, don't make them mad, pacify them, put yourself down and you'll be better off. WTF?

That's what I didn't understand. This list is trying to convince the bullied child that the bully is really their friend, don't make them mad, pacify them, put yourself down and you'll be better off. WTF?

It is important to note that teachers can be bullies, too.

This....this is just the stuff of nightmares. I really would like to know the name of the person who actually wrote this. Funny that they aren't disclosing that information, eh? I got bullied horribly in elementary and middle school, and no one ever did a thing about it. When I tried to stand up for myself, I got…

It's a toss up. All the bullies I knew had wonderful, materialistic home lives. But I know that isn't always the case.

Isn't it weird how people who are "just being honest" are never just being honest about nice things? You never hear "That new haircut suits your face so well! Hey man, I'm just being honest", or "Man, you're so cool, you're like my kids role model! You know, just trying to be honest!"

A friend of mine was bullied terribly in middle school. She told me she got an FB message from her bully 20 years later. The bully (I think she was serious) actually said something like, "Heya! It has been too long. We totally need to catch up. We haven't talked since graduation." My friend wrote back, "Yeah. …

Or even worse, someone who didn't think he/she was a bully and thought "oh, I'm not mean, I'm just honest."

"Would we keep our friends if we tattled on them?" So we want to keep the bully?