
Sorry to be blunt but it's taken me 35 years or so to realise I don't have to put up with it in any part of my life.
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And what about the larger picture? Are members out there now STILL being bullied? At work?
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Actually the title was a bit misleading.
I don't think bullies in any form should be tolerated whatsoever.
But the reason for this thread is a new console game called Canis Canem Edit certainly available on the PS2 and probably other console game systems too. The premise of the game is that you are a school kid who has to get through a school year intact and with your reputation intact. The working title was BULLY and apparently most of the game concentrates on avoiding, fighting with, being picked on by and becoming a school bully. Sensibly the game is rated 15 thereby excluding it legally from most impressionable school children but they will no doubt still be able to hire, borrow or purchase it unchecked relatively easily.
So what do other members think? Would a game like this be sending out the wrong message to children for whom the game was originally devised and developed anyway? Is it just another example of societies desensitization to the plight of those who have to endure this kind of abuse on a daily basis?
And what about the larger picture? Are members out there now STILL being bullied? At work? In other social situations? Did you know a bully from school who has not changed years on? Were you bullied at school and how did it affect you?
What about the forum? Do you think that there are bullies lurking here?
How can you Identify a bully? Do they have similar behavioural characteristics?
N.B. Not a name-and-shame exercise BUT this could be considered a triumphant roar about and against bullies and bullying.
Bullies are cowards. They know it, we know it. Time once again to make a small stand against such abuse not only in the schools and colleges but everywhere.
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What about the forum? Do you think that there are bullies lurking here?
How can you Identify a bully? Do they have similar behavioural characteristics?
N.B. Not a name-and-shame exercise BUT this could be considered a triumphant roar about and against bullies and bullying.
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I don't think bullies in any form should be tolerated whatsoever.
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So what do other members think? Would a game like this be sending out the wrong message to children for whom the game was originally devised and developed anyway? Is it just another example of societies desensitisation to the plight of those who have to endure this kind of abuse on a daily basis?
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And what about the larger picture? Are members out there now STILL being bullied? At work? In other social situations? Did you know a bully from school who has not changed years on? Were you bullied at school and how did it affect you?
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What about the forum? Do you think that there are bullies lurking here?
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Bullies are cowards. They know it, we know it. Time once again to make a small stand against such abuse not only in the schools and colleges but everywhere.
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What about the forum? Do you think that there are bullies lurking here?
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there are people on here who, by throwing about personal comments, accusations and the whole……act in a bullish way.
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there are people on here who, by throwing about personal comments, accusations and the whole……act in a bullish way.
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No more than games like GTA et al do just now for random acts of violence against innocents. I’d ban them all, I don’t see entertainment value in slashing a prostitute with a meat cleaver on the silver screen.
Maybe that’s just me? I’d ban them all tbh.
Sad thing is it’s extremely difficult to stand up against where there are no real safeguards for the victim.
There will always be threats etc hanging over people, loss of job being the most significant one, which makes it difficult for most.
The thing about bullies I reckon is that you personally will rarely be the only victim and once one person has the courage, and documentary evidence in particular, to make the complaint then others tend to follow.
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Bullies are cowards. They know it, we know it. Time once again to make a small stand against such abuse not only in the schools and colleges but everywhere.
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What about the forum? Do you think that there are bullies lurking here?
How can you Identify a bully? Do they have similar behavioural characteristics?
N.B. Not a name-and-shame exercise BUT this could be considered a triumphant roar about and against bullies and bullying.
Bullies are cowards. They know it, we know it. Time once again to make a small stand against such abuse not only in the schools and colleges but everywhere.
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What about the forum? Do you think that there are bullies lurking here?
How can you Identify a bully? Do they have similar behavioural characteristics?
N.B. Not a name-and-shame exercise BUT this could be considered a triumphant roar about and against bullies and bullying.
Bullies are cowards. They know it, we know it. Time once again to make a small stand against such abuse not only in the schools and colleges but everywhere.
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My youngest son has spent the last 5 years in school being bullied and despite talking to the Head and teachers, nothing seems to have come of it until one day he came out to his friends as being bisexual. That immediately stopped the taunts about his sexuality as now the bullies have nothing to make fun of and thankfully it's all stopped.
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If everyone stopped looking for hidden meanings in other peoples postings, (which actually is nothing more than a reflection of their own insecurities) then the thread might get from start to finish without being polluted.
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Bullying shouldn't be tolerated. Simple message.
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She knows that there will always be people who will be made uncomfortable by her sexuality and may bully her because of it, but she has my total support and that of close friends, and nothing else really matters to her.