Bullying leaves permanent psychological scarring and young people become adept at learning what hurts, verbally and psychologically. Looks, personality and status are all easy targets, and particularly difficult to change.
Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over – bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it’s a whole different set of colors.
We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.
I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.
I beat the bullies up. I got suspended a lot for beating up kids in our schools that were bullying other, sometimes mentally handicapped kids.
Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic – the strong attacking the weak.
Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there’s teasing and there’s name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there’s serious bullying, and then there’s actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can’t put it all under the tent of bullying.
Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
I was on a basketball team as a kid, and there were two twins who were a little older and a little bigger than I was, and there was some bullying going on there.
People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.
A lot of other reality shows on television can be bullying and aggressive, but we wanted ‘The Bake Off’ to be an antidote to that.
Americans, apparently, either do nothing about the world’s problems, in which case they are ignorant and isolationist, selfish and gutless, or they try to do something about the world’s problems, in which case they are arrogant and naive, greedy and bullying.
Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other ‘isms’ that cause so much suffering in the world.
When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.
In my 25-30 years of experience in the markets, just as you cannot have a good relationship with a woman by bullying her, you cannot have a good relationship with the market by trying to bully it or say that you are the king. Market is king.
Being culturally ambiguous and having to deal with bullying made me strong and independent.
Kids have to understand that they have control. Not their parents, not the principal, not the president of the U.S. It starts with them and it ends with them. To end this epidemic of bullying they have to standup for one another.
To avoid ignorance and bullying, I’ve had to hide the fact that I’m a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I’ve spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.
I don’t know that there’s more bullying or whether it’s just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there’s been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it’s something that people are talking about.
When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. ‘High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college.’ But it’s true – as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.
I try and make myself or consenting people I am very close to the victims of my comedy. I don’t enjoy bullying masquerading as comedy.
Bullying will eventually end if we all decide to stop it.
When girls bully, it’s very subtle, and you can’t define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It’s psychological with girls.
We teach kids that bullying is wrong and I don’t think there’s any difference when you’re an adult.
If you’re having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don’t know you. They don’t have the right to have an opinion on you.
Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.
If you can help it, don’t be rude to people. When you’re rude about someone and the audience laugh you can’t deny that it’s a bullying laugh.
Our music is never going to stop someone from bullying someone else. But you should be your own person.
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Bullying wasn’t okay in elementary school and it isn’t okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
There’s so much bullying, and there’s so much negativity on social media.
I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.
Those in powerless positions aren’t about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.
For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.
Bullying needs to have more attention, and there needs to be more open communication in schools to make kids feel comfortable enough to speak up.
I don’t believe in bullying in any form, but especially not on my children.
I’m a big supporter of the LGBT community and stopping bullying.
There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an ‘Austin & Ally’ episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.
I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach.
I feel like everyone that is in this profession deals with bullying in social media and it’s sad. It’s a lot of people thinking we don’t see it, because we get a lot of things on social media, but at the end of the day, we see these things.
The one-word story about why I have a chip on my shoulder is ‘bullying.’
Gawker started out speaking the truth to power, and then it became about bullying anyone who didn’t conform to their social justice orthodoxy. They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.
Don’t give in to bullying or others making fun of people. Stand up for yourself. Stand up for your friends. Be that one person who is genuinely good-hearted.
It’s important to stand up to all forms of bullying, and it’s even more important for those who are around you to be just as courageous and stand with you!
I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.
Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
Corporate greed, corporate bullying cannot be tolerated – it’s time for a global rule of law to guarantee fair trade, rights, minimum wages on which people can live with dignity, and safe and secure work.
My role is really just to try to make sure that the voice of all shareholders and employees is heard – that no one is bullying their agenda, their choice of a CEO, or their selection of who should be the board members. Benchmark, I believe, has been pushing their agenda at the expense of those stakeholders.
If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.
Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.
The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.
I think scary movies work best when they’re relatable, and I think one of the scariest things to young people now is bullying. Either doing it, being on the other end of it, being caught doing it.
Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can’t. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn’t want to fight somebody.
I once termed my sense of dress as ‘urban farmer’ and that became a perennial source of bullying from my friends, particularly my brother.
For too long, Gov. Cuomo has led with fear, intimidation, and bullying.
