Sunday, August 22, 2010

'Just Kidding' and 'Ganging Up' from Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons

There has been a situation where I was part of an alliance that made someone feel bad and I did not feel good about it at all. Even though I did not take a big part in making this someone feel bad, I still felt like I was responsible for bringing this person down emotionally by joining the alliance and showing that we are against him/her. In this situation, my options were to join the alliance and become unharmed or targeted or stand up for this person and become victimized as well.

This was a long time ago. About two or three years ago. When I look back at this incident, I look back at a mistake I made for not standing up for an innocent kid who was being bullied for means of entertainment. If that incident could replay itself, I would stand up for that poor kid and maybe that kid would go home in a better emotional state.

I think that people bully each other to feel superior and gain popularity. By bullying, a person sees himself as a dominant figure and looks to gain respect by doing so. They bully in front of large crowds to send their word out and become the talk of the school. But in doing so, they sometimes don't see the damaged that they have done. This damage that they are enforcing  is so harmful that it can go as far as to suicidal thoughts on their victims. I see bullying as a hobby. I say this because I see people bully for the pleasure of it. Some do it not because they want to but because they don't want to be on the wrong side of it. Either way, people do it for a reason which means that bullying isn't really one's behavior. Bullying is not a person's true colors or identity but it is rather an action. It's an action so powerful that a person's life is sometimes taken away by it.

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