The Bully Finally Won
What Now?
I’m guessing that everyone who reads this article will have experienced bullying in one form or another.
After all, it is so pervasive in our global society it would be tough to miss.
As a young boy, I teased and taunted another boy in the schoolyard.
It was more of an emotional taunting, but I knew it hurt him because it embarrassed him in public while it inflated me.
As a new kid on the block in a new management position I had worked for, I felt bullied by those with more seniority, education, and power.
I felt the same teasing in a way that I had exacted on my schoolmate many years before.
The Bully and the Victim
Bullying is characterized by direct or indirect aggression that creates an imbalance of power.
Victims of bullying struggle to defend themselves, highlighting a fundamental aspect of the bully-victim dynamic.
I have experienced it both as a bully and a victim. Honestly, neither was particularly pleasant.
The story I tell myself about bullying comes from my childhood as I spent hours in front of the TV viewing example after example of cartoons and TV sitcoms filled with good guy/bad guy scenarios.
