Bullying Article by Georgia

25.07.2011

Bullies.

- Gang up bullying.
- Following.
- Cyber bullies.

Let’s focus on gang up bullying for the moment.
There’s a girl in year 8 who gets ganged up on by nearly all of the year 8's. I’m sure I’ve bullied her in some shape of form at least once.
I only realized the other day how much she was being bullied.
I saw a girl yelling at her during sport e.g. Laughing at her, teasing, bringing her down.
She was saying things that would hurt even to be heard by the average person.
I most rudely asked her (bully) ' what the hell is your problem?!'
She gave me a deathly stare and ignored me.
She went on for ‘til nearly the end of class until i tried again, ' give me a f******* list of what she did to you to deserve this!', she mumbled nothing then jogged away.
I went to the girl who was being bullied.
I told her the bullies didn’t know anything, the girl didn’t respond so I went on ' you need to stop hanging around them, they should be so envious of you, they try so hard to hurt you and it hardly phases you?, you are actually so tough'.
She walked away with no reply.
She doesn’t deserve such bad treatment; I’ll find a way to help her.

I know why people bully others though, it has nothing to do with jealousy or them being envious, face it.
Our folks hid us from the truth.
People bully because they don’t like something about the other person, whether it’s their hair, body, life or even bag.
Bullies judge a book by its cover.
Bullying is like cigarettes; once you start it takes so much to stop. Bullies don’t notice the hurt on the victims part. When bullies see you flinch, they think you’re asking for it.
I know firsthand. I feel like such a hypocrite for writing this but people need to be aware.

Following
You think people only get bashed in drake & josh or the Simpsons?
People get followed and bashed in reality.
And it’s not those punches that take you five minutes to get over; these are real life scary punches.
Some people 'ask' for it, some people are in the wrong place, wrong time.
This happens.
My sister was accused of calling some girl a bitch and she got the crap beaten out of her, her friends hid just in case they became the next victims.
Everyone at the station looked at it as if it was normal.
10% of teens lose their lives from this. Some of these bullies will be real life killers.

Cyber bullies
Facebook, MySpace, twitter, YouTube etc.
Are you thinking of posting a mean status because you’re tired or annoyed?
“oh jane blox is such a bitch because she won’t reply to my inbox :@”, you say.
Sarah comments “wtf are you on about, you dumb s***”
You reply “im sry didnt mean it lyk tht”
An inbox pops up onto your screen.
Sarah hates you; she describes her hate for you in full detail. Now some kids you don’t even know start to hate you. They make cruel rumors that aren’t even remotely true. For some reason kids at school start to hate you.
That’s how fast the cyber world is. It’s not fun having friends & then not.
It happened to me.
I am a victim.
I am a bully.
I have written all this up because i want people to wake up.
Stop dreaming.

Written by Georgia Heinz.