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Bullying

Bullying is when a person or group repeatedly tries to harm someone who is weaker. Sometimes it involves direct attacks such as hitting, name calling, teasing or taunting. Sometimes it is indirect, such as spreading rumors or trying to make others reject someone.

Often people dismiss bullying among kids as a normal part of growing up. But bullying is harmful. It can lead children and teenagers to feel tense and afraid. It may lead them to avoid school. In severe cases, teens who are bullied may feel they need to take drastic measures or react violently. Others even consider suicide. For some, the effects of bullying last a lifetime.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Bully on Wikipedia

A '''bully''' is an individual who tends to torment others, either through verbal harassment or physical assaults, or through more subtle methods of coercion.

The behavior engaged in by Bullies: Bullying

In colloquial speech, '''bullying''' is most often used to describe a form of harassment associated with being performed by a child who is older, stronger, or otherwise more powerful socially, upon weaker peer group. Bullying can occur in situations including in school or college/university, the workplace, by neighbours, and between countries. Whatever the situation the power structure is typically evident between the bully and victim. It seems to those outside the relationship that the bully's power depends only upon the perception of the victim, with the victim being too intimidation to put up effective resistance. However the victim usually has just cause to be afraid of the bully due to the threat and actually carrying out of physical/sexual violence, or loss of livelihood. Bullying is behind most claims of discrimination in the workplace.

Types of bullying

Bullying is when someone repeatedly acts or says things to have power over another person. Bullies mainly use a combination of intimidation and humiliation to torment others. The following is some examples of bullying techniques: * Calling the victim names and stating the victim is useless at whatever they do * Spreading gossip and rumours about him/her * Threats of job loss and disciplinary action for unspecified reasons * Constant negative criticism for unspecified allegations * Taking the victim's possessions or taking control of the victim's work * Demoting the victim * Making the victim do what they do not want to do with a threat of violence or disciplinary action if they refuse * Actually following through with a threat on one occasion to ensure the victim will comply with all future orders == ...   [ Read More ]

External Resources

Logon 4 London: Bully - Detailed analysis of the film's portrayal of young people, making comparisons with the director's earlier film.

Flipside Movie Emporium: Bully - Review by Jeremiah Kipp, with 20 questions to the film director and user comments.

The Miami Herald - Bowling for Columbine - Rene Rodriguez reviews the movie and calls it a bullying, absorbing look at violence.

Rats & Bullies - A Case of Bullicide - Investigate the suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley, a teen girl from a small town in Canada who was a victim of female relational aggression.

Yahoo: Movies: Larry Clark - Profiles the director of "Kids" and "Bully" by providing biographical information and his filmography.

Pariahs - Feature film about violence and bullying. General information, cast and crew, media, production notes, and links.

HA-HA - Pictures, episode guide, and sound files of the school bully.

Class Act Theatre Inc. - Theatre company in education for primary and secondary schools covering issues such as bullying, health, nutrition, drug awareness and head lice.

How a Composer Cowed McCarthy - Telegraph news article by David Rennie uses unsealed documents from the 1950s Communist witch hunt showing how Copland stood up to the bullying U. S. senator. Links include McCarthy hearing transcripts and related articles.

P-Dog The Turntable Bully - Detroit based DJ and producer. Site includes biog, music clips, guestbook, and picture gallery.

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