I'm back for another controversial thread.. This one is extremely fucking edgy, to the point where, even I cringed sometimes when I read it back. Nonetheless, I will post it anyway, because I think it offers valid information, despite the edginess. Forgive me if there's a lot of typos. I have been up 36 hours studying for exams, and I am going to pass out right after I type this. But this is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, so I wanted to get it out there while I was inspired to write. This took me over 5 hours to write, and I wrote the intro last. So forgive me if the quality decreases as I go along. But I'm actually very excited to hear the responses, both positive and negative, on this post.

Intro to this topic

As I grow up, begin my career, and begin the transition into the corporate and professional world, I'm really starting to see the importance of one's social status, not just for love, but for career. I'd argue social status is just SMV (looks money status), game (how you can game women), and social skills (how well you handle platonic interactions). Social status is largely just a semi-interchangeable, but broader encompassing term than SMV in my opinion.

As I grow up, and see many people I personally know have their startups funded by billionaires, raising millions in one round of funding, see people getting offered 6 figure jobs right out of college, as well as seeing people much smarter than I get blacklisted and essentially bullied out of industries, struggle to get by, and live a worse life than I do despite working harder, I am realizing one thing: Life isn't as much about what you know, or even how hard you work, as it is about who you know, and how you're perceived. You piss off the wrong person and they can destroy your reputation and career. You befriend the right people and they can make you a millionaire.

This is why I think it is very important to discuss the kind of content I am going to discuss in this post. Your social status is incredibly important in dictating your life outcome. In this post, I am not even disagreeing with traditional redpill wisdom in regards to lifting and self improvement, but I will add to the social, and platonic realm. There are two reasons your social status is important

1) Being high status puts you in the same spheres as high status men. These men will significantly improve your career prospects, allow you access to women you couldn't get as an ordinary man, and boost your testosterone. Life is a giant feedback loop. The more you have, the easier it is to get more. The less you have, the harder it is to get more. Therefore, being high status will grant you high status things, better women, better jobs, more opportunities in life, and an overall happier life. Of course, everything has diminishing returns. I doubt making 600 billion dollars a year will make you significantly happier than making 10 million a year.

2) Women are attracted to high status. People talk about gaming women, but the truth is, 90% of game is done before you even talk to a woman. Women love the guy who's high status, the guy who's the leader of his peers, the guy who knows everyone at the bar. In every friend group and social group, there is a male hierarchy. There is the man who functions as the unspoken leader of the group. Then there is the one everyone clowns on and bullies. Woman can spot these two men immediately, and they are enthralled by the first and repulsed by the second. I've seen multiple women talk about this, and gravitate toward the natural leader type.

Many men might say "hurrr durr you idiot this is so complicated! It's feminine, this is autistic, to be this concerned with your social status. I'm a red pill alfalfa I just lift and shave my head bald and get all the bitches brahhhhh" .

I've given enough reasons social status is important, and will not address this further.

But what's the most low status thing you can be in any male group? Someone who gets bullied. It reeks of weakness and will repulse everyone around you. And how can you boost your own status? By bullying others! And in this post, we will discuss how that works. After all, half of you are being/have been bullied before, I'm betting. Because if you were some Chad slaying all the puss you wouldn't probably wouldn't be browsing this sub.

Many men do not understand basic social interaction and social hierarchy, whereas women understand it inherently, so this will be a post where I break it down a bit. Young men today lack social competence. We need to understand why certain (non-sexual) interactions occur, but not from a blue pill "everything will be alright" lens. But from a redpill lens, that will tell the harsh truths, the truths most people know deep down, but are afraid to admit out loud.

What is bullying? Quite simply, it's a form of peacocking

What is the definition of bullying? The best definition I found online comes from the national centre against bullying's website. It is defined as such

Bullying is an ongoing and deliberate misuse of power in relationships through repeated verbal, physical and/or social behaviour that intends to cause physical, social and/or psychological harm. It can involve an individual or a group misusing their power, or perceived power, over one or more persons who feel unable to stop it from happening.

So why do people bully others? Society would have you believe aphorisms such as, "hurt people hurt people", and "every bully is also a victim". Most bullies are sad, abused people hurting inside who don't know any better and take it out on others right? Wrong. Psychologists were shocked to find out bullies actually have significantly higher self esteem and better mental health than bully victims on average, in high school. "No," most psychologists thought, "this can't be true!". It also turns out that bullies in middle and high school bullies in high school go on to live healthier, end up more successful and are considered more attractive and have better dating lives . So it turns out, that that old stereotype, of the high school nerd who was bullied and becomes a successful business man while the jocks who bullied him end up old, ugly divorced and alone is actually untrue! Revenge of the nerds is a fantasy after all. But anyone with two brain cells (that's about twice what most people in 2021 have) who paid attention in life already knew this. I know the blue pillers reading this must be shocked! But no one here reading this should be.

So then why do people, especially men, bully? Well, the reason men and women bully is actually pretty similar, but I won't cover that in today's wall of text. Men bully others to assert their dominance, superiority, and hence showing off and improving their status. Bullying is fundamentally a misuse of power. When you bully someone publicly, you are showing others that you are superior your victim because you have the power to get away with it, and your victim can't really stop it. Whether it be physical strength (if he tries to do something about it I can just physically intimidate him), social strength (I'm so popular that if he tries to do anything about it everyone else will gang up on him on my behalf), or intellectual strength (my tongue is a lot sharper than his, so if he insults me back he knows he'll get roasted), or even other types of strength, like financial or positional. You are showing the world that you are more powerful than your bully. On a primal level, in a man, power, irregardless of whether he uses it for good or bad, is deeply attractive. People will try to virtue signal about how "no one likes an asshole", but it's simply untrue. I wish I could find them for this thread, but I have even seen tiktoks of women directly admitting they got turned on by watching their boyfriends bully other (inferior) men and pretending like she wanted him to stop. Again, why do you think bullies are seen as significantly more attractive?

Background

On an instinctual level, everyone here knows what I'm saying is true subconsciously. But I'll never forget the tweenage moments that made me consciously understand what I'm saying is true.

Me in middle school: I was actually bullied quite a bit in middle school. That's right, I am admitting I have been bullied. Inb4 "omgggg hurt zoomer trying to write an edgy post hurrr durrrr, I uplift other men hurrrrrrrrr durrrrrrrrr".

I was always significantly younger than other kids in my class, so I lacked the social skills the older kids had, so I was picked on a lot. What I did have, though, is I was bigger than them. I was shy, and let myself get picked on a lot. I tried to participate in verbal exchanges to defend myself which I, quite frankly, did not have the wit to win. This all changed on two different occassions:

  1. One kid in my class, (looking back this was so dumb, by 12 I was already well over 6 feet, and he was 5'1) would always try to fake flinch like he was going to beat me up. And I was actually, legitimately, scared of him for some reason. I just didn't really get how much bigger I was than kids my age, I guess. One day he tries it, and while flinching, and flailing my arms like an autist, I accidentally smack him in the face. He falls over, everyone starts laughing at him, and instantly people start being nicer to me, the guys in my class respect me significantly more.

  2. In 8th grade, kids thought it was a funny idea to break my shit. I just let them do it for the longest, when one ended up breaking an heirloom from my dad after school. For the first time, I got so mad, that I dragged him out the in the middle of the parking lot and knocked him on the ground and just started pounding on him. After that, he was left on the ground bruised, and do you know what happened? I'm not even joking. A bunch of underclassmen girls, (in fact all the ones who saw the event), came up to me, started offering their number to me, asking me if I was okay ...etc, while completely ignoring the guy lying on the ground crying. Hypergamy is that brutal. If we acted strictly by our ape genetics and lizard brains, a woman would watch another man kill her husband, get turned on by it, and end up in bed with him 30 minutes later. I'm by no means saying that all, or even most women today would do that. But I'm telling you that deep down in your lizard brain, hypergamy and other visceral instincts that are natural to men and women are that brutal. tr

Anyway, after experience number two, it would be only a few days before I went from being the number one bully target to the talk of my school. But it would be many years I came up with a theory, and practiced it, on how to use this knowledge with intention. It taught me that strength, power, attractiveness, and competence are what is seductive about a man, no matter how he uses it.

A warning

Human's innate animalistic obsession with powerful, dominant men, the reason why we have aphorisms like "hurt people". We want to imagine that high school bully, that asshole at the office who kills it in sales every quarter, your older brother who picked on you as a kid, did it because deep down, they were a scorned, abused, and deeply misunderstood. In reality, they did it because it gave them power. "Hurt people hurt people" is an example of the halo effect. We attribute reasons to the bully that quite frankly, don't exist, because how could someone we like and admire so much just be a bad person? In the worst cases, the victim, who does not get the halo treatment, gets the just world fallacy, where we make up reasons that the victim deserves it, because "I like the bully because he is powerful, the victim disgusts me because he is weak". So then, in our collective heads, we make the victim out to be a bad person, and the bully out to be a good person who is punishing him for his immorality, because that's the way we justify in our head being friends, and enjoying the behavior of someone who is doing something wrong. Do not fall into this delusion if you use the techniques I will describe later in this post, or you risk overdoing it, and then you yourself being seen as a bad person. Just understand what you're doing is a technique to boost your social status.: nothing more, nothing less. It may sound immoral, but remember: the red pill is an amoral set of tools for people to use.

Bullying is just peacocking. You are showing off your power as man to dominate other men, and thus bossting your status. Don't treat it as anything more, or get such an overblown ego that you overdo it and it turns on you. I've made this mistake before. It's a power exchange. When monkeys fight over who will be the alpha male, the winner gets a boost of testosterone, and the loser drops. This is an evolutionary mechanism, to create a feedback loop that causes the winner to become more aggressive to gain more status and reproduce more, similar to the fight response, as testosterone promotes status-seeking behavior. The losing monkey drops in testosterone, which decreases his drive to be aggressive, or engage in status seeking behavior. This keeps the losing monkey safe, because at least he does not risk embarassing himself, or even worse, dying in a fight, so he can at least survive another day. Testosterone in human men also behaves similarly to this. Wins, like having sex, getting a promotion, working out, and yes (I theorize) bullying boosts testosterone, which overtime, makes a man more attractive. Whereas losses, obviously, have the opposite effect.

It's a simple energy exchange. Think of it as siphoning their testosterone. Now that I've covered all the background, let's talk about the techniques.

How to bully part 1) Why are people targeted

What all bully victims have is that they are low social status relative to the environment they're in. For an example, a 5'7 Indian at an all white workplace would almost certainly be low status, unless he was other strengths significant enough to compensate for his low social value. Whereas if he goes to India, he doesn't stand out. There are many different reasons someone can be low status. It also varies from situation to situations. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. For example: my strengths are that I tend to be socially charismatic and very intelligent, so in a social setting or career, I would be a higher status person. People would seek to be around me and look for my advice. But I have never been very athletic, so in athletic situations, like playing pickup or working out with friends, I quickly become lower status, the the point where I almost become the inferior (a victim type I will talk about later). People would avoid passing me the ball, or when I was in middle school, throw me passes I can't catch to watch me fumble. Now this is too also say: only bully low status people. These are the people who can't really do anything back, because they don't have the social ground to stand on. If you bully high, or even medium status people, you risk people caring enough about that person to care that you're being mean to them, thus you will get called out and look like an asshole. I will describe how to identify the types of low status people in the next couple of sections. In general there are two types of them as I see it: the inferior, and the hated.

Bully victim 1) The inferior

The inferior is low status because in general, he is perceived as socially low value due to some amalgamation of characteristics he happens to have. Maybe he is some combination of short, ugly, awkward, introverted, poor, bad social skills, unathletic, stupid, uneducated, balding, fat, scrawny, irresponsible, undisciplined, boring, or any other combinations of traits that cause him to be low social value, socially undesirable. As I said earlier, deep down there is a halo effect that makes us love strong dominant men, no matter what they do or say. As I also said, a reverse halo effect exists. When we see weak men, we have disdain for them. The inferior does not inspire a deep seething hatred that the hated does. He is just so inferior, that he just registers on most people's radar as an annoyance. He is the oofy doofy friend in the group everyone teases. He is the friend you send to run errands for the group. He is the friend that if he left the group, no one would really care. The inferior is just a mild annoyance, and picking on him offers mild comic relief.

Bully victim 2) the hated

The hated is a significantly more interesting type than the inferior. The hated inspires a strong dislike and seething hatred towards everyone in the group. Everyone in the social circle talks negatively about the hated, avoids being friends with him, and in worst cases, outright insult him to his face, or even physical violence. The inferior may not know he is inferior, whereas the hated almost always does. But how does one become the hated? In human society, whether someone is objectively a bad person or objectively did anything wrong is rarely the true reason why someone becomes the hated. Humans naturally need people to get behind and people to fight against. An "us vs them" mentality is hard wired into our brains. And being part of an us makes us feel good. Fighting against a them makes us feel even better. So in the absence of a true "us vs them", we make rally behind the strong, and we make one. If we did actually hated people for objectively being bad people, most of our politicians and celebrities wouldn't have jobs. Rather, someone becomes the hated for a multitude of the reasons that follow, but are not limited to:

  • Someone of lower status in the group angers someone of higher status in the group. This person of higher status, with higher social strength, will then go and rally hatred against the person who angered them, and thus making them the new hated person of the group. An example would be Donald Trump versus the media.
  • It is possible to be so utterly inferior that people's mild annoyance of you becomes visceral hatred. Usually, this is also coupled with bad social skills. An example is Big Ed in 90 day fiance.
  • It is possible to just be such an asshole that everyone hates you. This is usually not the case, but it is possible.But if you're the right kind of asshole, people will love it (i.e. Simon Cowell).
  • You stand out too much. You are too different from everyone else and it scares people. People can't relate to you. You want to stick out just enough so people view you as a leader, but not so much people can no longer relate to you. When people loose the ability to empathize with you, that is when you become the hated. There is a saying in Japan, "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down". An example of this would be T-Pain when he started pioneering autotune in rap. Imagine everyone comes to work in a white shirt and jeans and you come in Lady Gaga's meat suit. You would immediately be targeted.

There are many more reasons someone can become hated, but those are the most common ones I can think of. We ascribe to the hated a type of moral destitution, one that makes him seem to us like the worst person in the world. The hatred is made to be the ultimate evil in the minds of the social group, a perception which is usually a mere caricature.

In some ways, it is better to be the hated than the inferior, despite the fact he gets treated far worse. Hot blooded hatred can be far better for your self esteem than lukewarm apathy. Additionally, the hated has a weird and twisted type of charisma to him. Because he is so polarizing, he can stir strong emotions in people, mostly negative, but sometimes positive. In many cases, a hated can divide a social group in two, those who side with the hated on whatever made up wrong he did, and those who despise him. In many cases, although it is rare, the hated can become high status by polarizing enough of the social group to his side, and flipping, or offering to flip the status hierarchy of the group. This is rare, and for every hated who succeeds in doing this, there are 100 who remained the hated, or were driven out of the social hierarchy. But it is something you must watch out for when bullying the hated.

Techniques: How to bully the two types of victims

First I do not recommend physical violence. It won't gain you much status if you're not in high school, it won't gain you much status. And plus today, people are crazy, they'll shoot you. Also there will always be men stronger than you, so it's not good to rely on this.

No one really cares about the inferior, so when you bully them, you must be careful to not overdo it. If you overtly insult or harangue them, you risk looking like an asshole, and becoming the hated yourself. Instead, you subtly show everyone around you that you are more powerful than the inferior and you know it, and he knows it. You subtly put down the inferior, not with your words, but your actions. People will notice this on a more subconscious level than consciously, and they will do the same to the inferior while looking up to you. I have seen people tiktoks of women saying shit like "when he's the one in the friend group they all make fun of 🤮🤮🤮". This is a natural instinct that most people do subconsciously. When I list off example behaviors to put down the inferior, you will immediately recognize someone your friend group does this to instinctively, or worse yet, you may see yourself in it. I am teaching you how to take advantage of this behavior and use it consciously. Ways you can subtly put down the inferior are:

  • Cutting him off when he speaks occasionally
  • Occasionally look at him with a face that looks annoyed, disinterested, or like you're not taking him seriously when he's talking. Do this at a time where he says something stupid, is talking too much, acting shy, ...etc Roll your eyes (VERY Slightly, too much comes across as aggressive), only pay half attention when he speaks.
  • When you're taking a group picture out with friends, and he's along, make him take the picture. This is typically best done in company with women.
  • Praise him like he's your little brother in front of strangers. This is a good one. "Jake finally got this promotion at work and I was so proud of him! Good job bro!" Use terms like "my buddy", "I was proud of him", "he finally did ..." ...etc that subtly emasculate him.
  • If he mentions an accomplishment, say something like "really? you?".
  • Tease him so much to the point where its excessive in front of the group, but still a small enough amount that if he called you out on it, you can be like "yo, I'm just joking" and he will look oversensitive.
  • If you're at a venue and they get up to use the bathroom or something, take their seat talk to someone while sitting in it, and take a while to get up when he comes back, not making eye contact with him while he either waits to get his seat back, or is forced to take another seat.
  • Ask to borrow a small amount of money for him and never pay it back. (This one I'm not as sure about, cuz I've never seen it in action myself), but heard about it.
  • If there's an errand for a group hang out, like picking up a alcohol for a kickback, send him by himself to do it. (The most brutal example of this I can remember is me hanging out with a girl I was talking to, her calling this fat dude. classic inferior type, over to her house while I was there, making him bring us a pizza, and kicking him out right after. That's a pretty extreme example, that you likely can't pull off as a man though).

Bullying the inferior is a delicate balancing act. If you overdo it, you become the hated. You want the inferior to feel like he's part of the social circle, but have a sense that he's at the bottom of the hierarchy. Like a woman, you can feed the inferior scraps occasionally where you're nicer to him, so he feels like he's slowly ingratiating himself with the group. This is best done when you're alone with him. Additionally, temper you're bullying of the inferior to the group's treatment of him. If other members of the group look uncomfortable or aren't joining in on your subtle bullying of the inferior after a bit, then he's not socially inferior enough relative to you to pull it off. Stop your plans to bully the inferior, because you can't pull it off.

Bullying the hated is much easier. People despise the hated, and think he's a bad person, so you can get away with much more. You still can't overdo it. And with every hated, there is a small risk of turning the tide on them. The older you are, the less you can overtly insult someone, even the hated, and gain status from it, but there are still subtle things you can do to the hated that you can't do to the inferior:

  • Spread rumors you hear about the hated.
  • Do everything you do to the inferior, but more extreme.
  • Exclude the hated from events
  • Occasionally, you can "call out" the hated. In a group, when the hated does something of minor annoyance, because he is so hated, everyone will feel like he did something extremely annoying or even wrong. Most people in society are too polite to insult the hated to his face. But you can take the pseudo-moralistic stance of "standing up to the hated", when he does something like this, and "call him out" on his bad behavior. This will boost your status in the group, as it seems like you're calling someone out who did something so terrible and no one wants to say it. It can come across as very masculine. In all reality you're just calling someone out for social status and harassing someone who probably doesn't deserve it. A wide scale example of this is cancel culture.
  • Act like you're attempting to undo whatever injustice the hated is perceived to have done in a social group. It makes you look virtuous at their expense.
  • Overtly insult the hated. You must temper this to your age. As a teenager, you can mercilessly roast the shit out of someone and get praised for it. The older you get, you seem cruel for doing this. As an adult, an overt insult can be a witty joke at the hated's expense that goes too far. The kind of joke that would garner the response "OMGGGG stopppp it, you're so baddddd teeeheeheee" from a woman.

You can overdo bullying the hated too, it's just harder. But bullying the hated has the advantage of making you look virtuous.

Climbing the social ladder: dealing with medium and high status people

The goal of this is to climb the social ladder in a group you're in, or make sure you situate yourself well in a new group you're in. But low and high status people in a social group tend to be the minority of people. The vast majority of people are medium status. These are the people you treat the best. When you become high status, medium status people will be like your followers. So you praise them to their face and behind their back. Dale Carnegie "How to win friends and influence people" style. You act super interested in what they have to say. You occasionally comment on how important their friendship is to you. You invite them out, introduce them to your friends, you endear yourself to them. Medium status people are not like high status people, so they're not used to this treatment. Therefore, it is easy to get them to like you, if you are not low status. This will get them to talk about you, positively, which will boost your status in a group. But beware: never get caught talking negatively about anyone besides low status people. It can and will backfire.

High status people are a bit harder to befriend. While medium status people are excited to like anyone who likes them, high status people are harder to engage with, because they're used to that type of treatment. To become high status in a group, you must at least be medium status first. If you are low status, you can become medium status overtime. If you are hated, it's more than likely over, you need to switch social groups. If you are inferior, by working on your inferiorities you can become medium status. If you want to accelerate this, you can bully a lower status person. But regardless, if you're low status, I recommend just leaving the social group you're in. because the low status label is hard to escape.

To befriend high status people, you must appear to have some type of social value. This varies from setting to setting, but one thing that will always make you appear higher status wherever you go is being tall, in shape, good looking, and charismatic. 2/4 you can control. In a work setting, being high status can be attained by being really good at your job, being friends with everyone in the office, In a school setting, being known as a player, being good at a sport, and also having a lot of friends helps.

Once you have shown sufficient value/competence, being friends with high status people will be easy as fuck. Being friends with the high status people in your social group will boost your own status a lot, as high status people associate with other high status people. As you can see, an essential law of the universe is that the hungry don't get fed: the more status you have, the easier it is to get more. Whereas the reverse is sadly also true.

Avoiding being a target

I will mostly talk about avoiding being the inferior type of victim. As a man, every social interaction you engage in is a test of your competence, and therefore status. People act like it's women who shit test you, but in reality other men shit test you as well, and you probably deal with it more. Think of your social status as a sliding scale from 1-100. Like the monkeys described earlier, when another man shit tests you, if you pass, your status scale goes up one, and his goes down one. One fuck up won't change how you're perceived, but failing shit tests over and over, will. Once your status scale drops below a certain number, you become an inferior type bullying victim. Your innate status (your first impression) dictates where you start at. I.e. are you tall or short? +0 or + 20. In shape? + 20/ Fat? +0 Skinny ? +5. Good looking ? + 30. Average? +10. Ugly? + 10. Charismatic ? +30. Boring? +0. (For the older men) Do you have a good job ? +15. Do you make money? +20. Do you know a lot of people in the social setting? +25.

So what are male shit tests? A man teases you a little too hard, not normal friend teasing, but in the way I described you would tease an inferior. A male beats you in a competition. A man disrespects you in some type of way. How you respond to these will dictate how your status goes up and down overtime. Improve yourself to boost your status, and avoid failing tests, so as to not lower it. And remember, your default social status can vary from setting to setting. If you're a minority, for example, where you live will have a significant impact on your SMV. At a Harvard lab, Stephen Hawking would be higher status than Lebron James. So don't be afraid to go to a setting that suits you best.

Bullying women

Don't do this. As a man, you can't get away with this. No matter what she does, unless she is extremely hated, you will look like an asshole. Even if she is the hated, you have to be very careful. Let women bully other women. Women can effectively bully men and get away with it, but the reverse is generally not true.

My results from taking the bullying pill over the past year

This is all stuff I have known semi-consciously since I was in middle school, probably younger honestly. In my brain, this entire essay is an instinct at best, a two second thought at worst. But it's good to write it all down and sprinkle in my own life experience to round it out. However, I've been really thinking about this consciously lately and intentionally did it the past year. I also bullied more overtly than I personally recommend doing in this sub, and I also used the technique on medium status people I described earlier to offset this as well.

Benefits I've seen:

  • People complimenting my charisma more
  • People thinking I'm funnier
  • Two separate instances of hookups resulting directly after a girl saw me bully another man
  • Compliments such as "you're so bold". "I wish I had your confidence"
  • Wider friend group
  • Being considered the main character of a group. Had a friend tell me "you're like the main character of the group"
  • Had someone outright tell me "I love the way you occasionally antagonize people. It's one of the funniest things"
  • Being told "the fact that you don't give a fuck is so attractive, I love it so much" by a large amount of women
  • Having people say about me "I love how he calls people out on their bs, he's not afraid to tell the truth!"

The last one is especially funny to me. I'm not "calling people out" on any bs, I'm just harassing people who no one really cares about at best, and is actively hated at worst, and people are so cruel, they love it.

Cons I've seen

  • losing a bit of hope in humanity that the techniques I saw used on me for most of my childhood worked so well and it's actually fucked that we are so controlled by our reptilian instincts
  • If try to you bully people and you don't pull it off well, (i.e. you stutter while insulting someone, or you bully someone where there's not a huge enough status gap between you all) it will make you look a bit pathetic. This lowers your status and can make you into an inferior or hated if you do it too much.

Conclusion

Many people will not like this post. They will call it unethical, or feminine even. The second one is so retarded I won't even address it. But as for ethics, unfortunately the red pill is amoral. Spinning plates, making a girl hamster, dread game, aren't exactly things society would consider nice either. The difference with bullying is that it is an essential fact of life. Bullying is an instinct people will use to elevate their own status in relation to others, and they don't even do it on purpose. It's an instinct. So regardless of who you are, you will likely encounter bullying, whether as a bystander, victim, or perpetrator. Now that you deeply understand the benefits of bullying, you don't have to use this tool for bad. Maybe you can structure your behavior in a way where you curb your instincts to do it to others, or don't reward people with status for bullying others. Or maybe you will just use this information to avoid being a victim yourself. Or maybe you will just bully people for status. I don't really care either way. Use this information how you will.

One caveat though, is that there are some relationships where none of this bs applies. With your close friends and family, you shouldn't be thinking about this stuff with them. Those should be relationships where you genuinely care about them. Most relationships in your life will be like this, but if every single one is, then you should reconsider who you call close.