tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030001388898725918.post3647223325744318347..comments2023-12-03T07:58:33.523-05:00Comments on Jennifer R. Hubbard: Bullying: The problem that never seems to go away, part 2Jennifer R. Hubbardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03408588432492354248noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030001388898725918.post-18072054882322782942013-09-04T19:05:38.333-04:002013-09-04T19:05:38.333-04:00My next entry will quote the work of Rachel Simmon...My next entry will quote the work of Rachel Simmons, and she found a VERY interesting dynamic: often it was not the stereotypical outcast who got bullied, but someone that the other kids thought needed to be taken down a peg:<br /><br />"When I first started interviewing girls, I'd planned to organize their stories according to the qualities I assumed girls got punished for: the differently abled, the overweight, the poor, the haplessly uncool. I had not expected to find that girls became angry with each other for quite the opposite reason.<br /><br />"As most any girl knows, one of the worst insults is to be called a girl who 'thinks she's all that.'"<br /><br />This surprised me too at first, but then I realized it confirms what I have come to realize: Nobody is destined to be a target, and anyone can become a target. Jennifer R. Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03408588432492354248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030001388898725918.post-11850361402437963752013-09-04T09:29:11.569-04:002013-09-04T09:29:11.569-04:00I just finished reading WONDER by R.J. Placio. Exc...I just finished reading WONDER by R.J. Placio. Excellent book that deals with bullying a deformed ten year old boy. The way he overcame it is tremendous, indeed. Bullying seems like an age-old problem, and when the bullied decides to be just as mean and fight back, you get things like gangs and unneeded violence. It seems to be in human nature to lash out at what you don't understand because it makes you feel insecure yourself. Why? No idea, but I fear that my own daughter will deal with bullying because she is such a different personality than her classmates. She's so wild and eccentric and doesn't seem to even notice that other kids laugh at her. I'm afraid that one day she WILL notice, and she will care. Michelle D. Argylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09696465137285587646noreply@blogger.com