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Bullies Rationalize Their Behavior

by Dividio
(PA)

This story took place about 20 years ago. I was working as a bus boy at a catering hall. It involved a fellow teenager named Gary who had a weird sense of humor, the eccentricities of which allowed me to attempt to ignore the bullying aspects. There was a tool which we used in the kitchen to extract butter from the large containers purchased by the catering hall. The tool happened to look very much as a device used to swat a fly (a plastic stick with a flap on the end.) I took it upon myself to comment "The first time I saw this, I thought it was a fly swatter."

After hearing this, Gary said to me "Come here." and then "Bend over." After I unwittingly followed these instructions, Gary hit me on the head with a pan and then said "That's what people around here get for saying something stupid." And I did not even retaliate to this asshole-like so-called rationalization.

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Mar 16, 2008
Bullies Feel Entitled to Abuse Others
by: Anton Hout

Bullies like to justify their bad behavior by blaming the target for the abuse. "You asked for it." or "You brought this on yourself." are common excuses of bullies. Good for you for not retaliating in kind but that was assault no matter how funny the bully thought it was.

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