"Are you kidding?? I mean, didya really do it to her? W-O-W, I mean...that is so awesome."
"The nice thing is, I mean, it's not messy like punching someone out...you don't get all bloody. Go ahead, girl, just post it."
* * * * *
I wonder if people who bully realize the extent of the damager they do to others.
Are they even ever aware of their what they are doing? Or do they experience pleasure at being able to dominate and/or humiliate others, while society generally turns a blind eye (especially if the victim is a man: a man experiences shame at being "beaten up"; to tell others is tantamount to acknowledge publicly being "a weenie").
Is it out of boredom? Or is it just the obverse of urban crime, i.e., physically assaulting and robbing someone at gunpoint? Or of watching "Men in Black" et.al.? Everyone's gotta get into "the action."
Iis the name of the game, today, for younger people Facebook (social networking)?
The phenomenon immediately flocked to Europe:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/schoolgirl-14-hangs-herself-after-2128742
According to the RTS (Info), 95% of children in Switzerland between the ages of 9-16 have a cellphone, 79% a smartphone.
Not everyone bullied, of course, actually kills himself or herself. They suffer, often silently, all their lives from wounds that are invisible to most other people. Or they, in turn, become a bully. And so forth...
* * * * *
Is violence the only way American men can feel like "real men"?
"The nice thing is, I mean, it's not messy like punching someone out...you don't get all bloody. Go ahead, girl, just post it."
* * * * *
I wonder if people who bully realize the extent of the damager they do to others.
Are they even ever aware of their what they are doing? Or do they experience pleasure at being able to dominate and/or humiliate others, while society generally turns a blind eye (especially if the victim is a man: a man experiences shame at being "beaten up"; to tell others is tantamount to acknowledge publicly being "a weenie").
Is it out of boredom? Or is it just the obverse of urban crime, i.e., physically assaulting and robbing someone at gunpoint? Or of watching "Men in Black" et.al.? Everyone's gotta get into "the action."
Iis the name of the game, today, for younger people Facebook (social networking)?
The phenomenon immediately flocked to Europe:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/schoolgirl-14-hangs-herself-after-2128742
According to the RTS (Info), 95% of children in Switzerland between the ages of 9-16 have a cellphone, 79% a smartphone.
Not everyone bullied, of course, actually kills himself or herself. They suffer, often silently, all their lives from wounds that are invisible to most other people. Or they, in turn, become a bully. And so forth...
* * * * *
Is violence the only way American men can feel like "real men"?
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