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Most bullies are power-tripping on the effect they have. Standing up to them is unexpected, they don't know how to react, and quickly back down. It's not worth
by sitharus 13y ago
Most bullies are power-tripping on the effect they have. Standing up to them is unexpected, they don't know how to react, and quickly back down. It's not worth the risk to put up a fight when you can just pick on someone else.
It works when you're an adult as well, though if they're your boss they might fire you.
- arrrg 13y agoIn my experience standing up to bullies was always completely useless. I mean, it might work, but wit and physical ability are necessary to make that happen in practice and many who are bullied have neither (I certainly didn’t). Bullies do know very well how to react to someone standing up to them. All my bullies did. It was worthless. I was always unable to do or say the right things to stop them. This always seemed like a useless platitude to me that doesn’t work one bit outside of very specific circumstances.
- aaronem 13y agoWell, sure, fighting back doesn't always work. But even if you failed, at least you tried. Perhaps that's not the best thing in the world for your self-respect, but take it from me, it's a hell of a lot better than not even trying.
- arrrg 13y agoNo, trying tends to make things worse, at least in my experience. Someone who is bullied is not good at retaliation. Bullies tend to be super-great at complaining to teachers and getting you punished.