VI. Consequences of Ignoring Bullying

When one hears the term “bully”, one may begin to think of television characters like “Butch” from The Little Rascals, “Mad Dog” or “SweetDaddy” from Good Times, or Mafia gangsters like “Scarface”. The aforementioned characters are very indicative of the different kinds of bullies that are in our society. As often stated, art imitates life. Most people, as they watched these characters on television, were able to identify with them whether directly or indirectly. There may have been characters that reminded viewers of themselves or that reminded them of some other person whose path they may have crossed in their life time. It is probably safe to assume that everyone has bullied

The form of bullying that has the most direct and immediate negative repercussions is physical bullying. Verbal attacks could take time to have substantial effects on its victim(s) but physical bullying induces instant responses and ramifications(Johnston,1996). This type of bullying can occur very early in a child’s life. There are times when babies fight each other for toys as young one and two years old. Daycare givers are continually noting to parents that their baby bullies the other babies in the daycare center. So these tendencies and actions seem to be almost naturally instinctive because no one had to teach the bully baby how to bully other babies. Therefore, as children get older, some of them misapply or misdirect their feelings of low self esteem, despair and resentment in a way of bullying others in the neighborhood or at school. In any circle of associates there is the group bully. The neighborhood bully is usually the oldest or biggest in stature of all the kids on the street. He or she would take the weaker kid’s new basketball that was given as a birthday gift from his or her grandmother even. The kid would not report this to community authorities because he wants to be “cool” in the eyes of other kids. Besides, no one wants to be labeled a “rat” or a snitch. The uncooperative victim of verbal threats usually suffers the wrath of physical bullying. That same bully would be the guy to make his victim change their usual route to and from school to avoid the physical abuse from the bullies. In Shreve’s Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge, the school bullies were notorious for coercing the nerds to pay for their lunch each day or given the beating of their lives (Shreve,1993). Many days, school officials have had to restore order in the hallways as the nerds would be yelling very loudly for help because the bullies had stuffed and locked them inside their 1.5 feet by four feet school lockers. The victims knew that they were expected to bring extra food or money for the bullies or be subjected to some type of physical bullying. At Bates’ school there was nearly a ritual of the bullies and nerds meeting on the playground to exchange lunch monies or the bullies would take turns slapping the nerds who could not produce extra sandwiches or money.

It simply seems to be natural for human beings to rate, judge, mistreat or manipulate each other. Even between best friends, there are occasional episodes of manipulation or periods where one friend is not as considerate of the other’s well being or condition. Every best-friend relationship has probably suffered moments when a friend has taken the friendship for granted or abused the allegiance of their union. Even amongst siblings and cousins, abuse or bullying runs rampant. There is an old adage that says that one should never go into business with one’s family members. Similarly , it is believed by many that one should never lend money to one’s family members. It is proven continually throughout time that if these types of contracts are not entered into with great caution, the probability that some level of presumption or impudence will surface is at least great. When family members are in business together, there is always a time when the boss is more lenient with his brother-in-law who is also his store manager because he is the boss’s wife’s baby brother. This leniency may actually be detrimental to the productivity of the business. Additionally, the brother-in-law may conveniently remind the boss that his wife (the brother-in-law’s big sister) would not be happy to hear that her baby brother is being treated unfairly on the job. This is a simple example of how family members are bullied by other family members when money is in the equation. Some relatives are slow to repay loans from other relatives, if at all, assuming that there will be no legal or criminal repercussions imposed upon them by their loved ones. This way the ge

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