Apparently possession of a penis means you are a bully.

MartialWay · 2012-07-27T22:32:21+00:00

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HolyCounsel · 2012-07-27T23:29:34+00:00

The OP's title may be overdramatic, but neither the article or the study are about what they profess. They both state that they are concerned with bullying, but the study is about physical aggression and makes no attempt to link the two behaviours.

Most kids who commit suicide because of bullying are not subjected to physical abuse, which would quickly draw adult attention to the child, but rather the much more insidious emotional taunting and social ostracism. Such is the case with the young suicide victim, Kenneth Weishuhn Jr., that was cited. This means that Gentile's study could be almost useless for determining the REAL causes of bullying behaviour.

The reason for this focus is rather clear to me:

"We could profile kids by measuring their risk factors. In fact, I can get over 80 percent accuracy knowing only three things -- are they a boy, have they gotten in a fight within the past year, and do they consume a lot of media violence?

AND

media violence is just one risk factor for increased aggression.... what makes it different from the others is that it's the one that is most easy for parents to control.

And there you have it, nicely wrapped up. Everybody just knows that boys are violent and is prepared to "fix" them at every step. Physical violence is easy to spot, much easier than emotional wounds. And media violence is a favourite target of every social engineer.

It is a simplistic answer to a complex problem and means absolute shit.

MockingDead · 2012-07-27T21:54:44+00:00

Yup. Ima bully. I won't put up with other peoples shit, so I tell them they are wrong. Bully Bully Bully.

Wow, that's simply not he case. I have been bullied far worse by women than by men. men will hit me. Women will use violence by proxy and shaming.

phukka · 2012-07-28T08:45:17+00:00

I like how they make it seem like only people who use physical violence can be bullies. Kinda like how only penises can rape.

Seriously, bullying comes in more shapes and sizes than just a fist fight. I'd rather be beaten up as a kid than emotionally destroyed or had a false-rape accusation used against me.

Just another case of toying with the definition to vilify boys.

Honestly, I'm surprised they used the hook of a 12 year old male committing suicide as the headline paragraph, here. It's a boy, who's gonna care?

candomrhosen · 2012-07-27T22:51:06+00:00

It says it's a factor in getting into physical violence - which it is since there's the whole "Omg wtf you can't hit a girl Misogynist/ woman beater".

thrway_1000 · 2012-07-28T01:32:21+00:00

One of the major problems is that they're correlating violence with bullying. In most cases bulling is more verbal harassment and social ostracization. From person experience I've found that just as many girls as boys are bullies. Girls seem more likely to be instigators and so-bullies than just perpetrators. I would like to see a study into the actual bulling and not just violent bullying as I think it's much more common and can be more damaging in the long run. There's little defense from this type of bullying because proof is hard to come by and rarely are teachers and/or guardians willing to deal with this long term type of harassment.

alaysian · 2012-07-28T07:09:44+00:00

I like how she makes the jump of "risk factors for getting into fights" to "risk factors for bullying". My little brother got into a number of fights. Doesn't make him a bully. Just meant when someone started making fun of him, he wouldn't take it.

Title	Apparently possession of a penis means you are a bully.
Author	voiceformankind
Upvotes	35
Comments	13
Date	July 27, 2012 9:42 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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