Aw hell... bullying let's you know something about a character, then you can coward down or stand up and take action. It's those timid sneaky ones you don't see coming and they hit you from behind. Talk about you. Tell the boss you said a dirty word. Tell on you when your late or leave early and they want your job. Hell... I'll take a bully anyday over a person ratting you out to get your job. Hmmm... people say don't be paranoid......lol. look around and count your real friends....lol.

I'm old school and being bullied actually helped me to become a man. In every species of life there is bullying among the same species - it serves a purpose and there is proof that it helps that species to thrive. The minute I learned to fight back - my life changed. I started looking people in the eye, I started looking forward instead of at the ground when I walked and I walked with a better posture. Men showed other men how to be men. That being said, the bullying wasn't constant and there were no weapons involved - bullying has changed a great deal since I was in school. We didn't have social media that allowed people to bully us even after school. In my day if a male student showed up at school wearing a dog collar and being led around on a leash by his girlfriend - there was going to be a beat down and he'd learn real quick - there's a big difference between what you do in private vs. what you do in public. And in my opinion, rightfully so. This attempt to sanitize life to the extent that students can't play dodge ball or tag has been taken to extremes and the evidence of that can be found in the fact that 3/4 of high school graduates are considered unfit to serve. Men don't know how to be men anymore because they're not being given the right role models to follow. We need to be in touch with our feminine side - complete BS. We made it this far because of our most primitive instincts and that includes bullying - it separates the weak from the strong and it's the strong among us not the weak that help us to thrive.

Every time I see a poll I feel I am being bullied by the small scope of the answers. No vote.

I think some people are too ‘forceful,’ and would not consider themselves a bully! Then you have a ‘veiled’ kind of behavior, that is bullying that is confusing and people can’t recognize it as ‘bullying.’ I think it is not always so clear cut, so that we can move on...fast!

Bullying is just one of many reasons why we need people to referee social interactions