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a serious topic, I’m afraid…
A lot of people have suffered form bullying, some (usually the very young) die from it.
We suffer from it at school, or see it at school, and keep quiet in case the bullies turn on us.
I’ve seen it in this chatroom – perhaps taken part in bullying for a cheap laugh, not realising the effect. I hope not – I usually turned on someone who was quite a pain in the rear end – but who knows?
It’s illegal at work, but is widespread. That’s because bullying (of one person by another), which is illegal, takes the form of mobbing (the isolation and persecution of an individual by a collective, often desperately keen to show and fell they ‘belong’), which is legal.
This is a moving US account of bullying, entitled when it’s all right to make a kid cry.
Do you think I’m right about mobbing being the usual form of bullying?? And what can be done about it?
shut up or i will set my mates on you
now give me your pocket money
or i will thump you in the ear
and throw your cap in a puddle.:D
funnily enough, I was never bullied at school…
but *throws pocket money at cosy
my memory was of one boy being terrorised to make him do the homework of a particular gang. As I had glasses, too, I made a mental note to get out of the school asap.
From memory and discussion, girls’ bullying was actually lethal. One girl told me that they had set her hair alight with matches.
I think among us mature grown-ups, bullying usually takes the form of a smearing of reputation, though sometimes it can go worse.
of course one musnt forget another peculiar form of bulling
which generally afflicts people in the 40/50 age group
i think the term is
keyboard gangsteritis.keyboard gangsteritis?
sounds familiar..
my daughter was bullied at school and it was quite a while before i actually found out about it……..on one occasion she was pushed down the stairs at school and it got to the point where she was receiving over 100 texts a day……..when i found out i phoned the school who got in touch with the school liason police officer who went in to school and interviewed the ring leader with her parents present……..the girl was told if she did it again she would be charged as i would take it further ………the phone company were also very helpful, providing the police with all the information they wanted for evidence……..i have to say the school were really good about this and it was cleared up very quickly……..it’s a horrible feeling when you find out your child has been bullied
good on you, tinks…the hard thing is to get kids to tell adults, there are all sorts of reasons they keep it private. Schools are usually pretty good at stamping out bullying when they find out about it, but the hard thing is finding out about it.
Bullying is not the same as the activity pursued by cosy, though – that’s just called mugging 8)
I knew one lad who was genuinely crushed by his persecution. It was really upsetting to see.
Adults can get badly damaged by mobbing, too.
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