Watch "To This Day"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here's a brilliant video about the impact of bullying.  Most people aren't social teflon and when surrounded by savages will be hurt by savage attacks.  So think about that before you quietly ignore people, especially young ones, eating each other alive.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Excuse me if I don't link as I'm a survivor of both bullying and abuse, but I so hear you on this one!

[davv]

I think this is part of why the Ai-Naidar would find us so strange. We have comparatively speaking few rules and so claim freedom, but beneath it there are tons of unwritten ones. Fail to follow some of them, or be around people savage enough, and they do things like bully you. Whether or not others intervene depend on yet other unwritten rules. And the rules can't be reached or amended from the surface because they're not there. There's no Book of Precedents, they're just floating out there in interpersonal space.

Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I've touched on unwritten rules in some of my other work. A couple that got published this week include:
"Do Wrong to None"
"Invisible Lines"

[natalief.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this.

I have been both bullied and abused in my life. This video rang a lot of bells. Bullies kill. They almost killed me, more than once.

Linking.

You're welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I could help.