Bully .. Bullying .. and the Wussification of America

Bullying has become a hot topic of discussion lately and with any hot topic item, the terminology seems to get into everyone's mouth, which is great to promote awareness of the issues, but I'm really sick of people overusing the words in the wrong way. There are lots of situations that involve REAL bullying that are devastating. I'm not talking about that. What I'm talking about is when someone says they are being bullied to gain sympathy for being a victim when they are not victims at all. A bully by definition is “a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people” (Dictionary.com). A victim of bullying then would be a person who suffers from this badgering and intimidation and would be a person who is smaller or weaker than the bully. Ok so we’re clear on definitions now. WHY WOULD YOU EVER WANT TO BE A VICTIM OF BULLYING OR CLAIM TO BE IF ITS NOT THE TRUTH? 

Herein lies the issue. We as Americans have become so sensitive to the issue of bullying that when we hear the words bully or bullying we automatically think of a bad situation - we assume the worst. We dole out sympathies and attention like its candy. This is how we fall prey to false victims and attention seekers. Instead of encouraging equality, fairness, and autonomy, we give rise to this movement of (as The Bert Show calls it) the WUSSIFICATION OF AMERICA. People pull out the victim card and we say ‘oh yes, that was terrible, don’t worry that person is horrible and you’re the one that’s right.’ 

UH NO. You can’t just claim to be the victim of bullying (especially on a one time argument - re-read the definition - it requires habitual action) so that people will sympathize and tell you what you wanted to hear all along. We shouldn’t allow that or encourage that. What we should encourage is for people to fight their own battles, with people their own size (physically and mentally), and stop pretending to be victims when they were simply people of opposing views who stood on equal grounds and may have offended each other in equal respects. By claiming to be a victim you are claiming to be the weaker person and I don’t know about you, but I would never want to BE the weaker person or even THINK that I’m the weaker person. RISE ABOVE – be the stronger person or at least AS strong as the person you’re claiming bullied you. Look in a mirror, and ask yourself if that person is bigger and stronger than you to a point where you are legitimately being FOR REAL BULLIED. IF what you find is that no, you’re not really being bullied, you said it for dramatic flair, STFU and do everyone around you a favor and stop overdramatizing your life. It’s a dog eat dog world and survival of the fittest – you still want to be a victim? THEN GET EATEN ALIVE BITCHES. Let’s end the Wussification of America and teach the next generation to do the same. Playing the victim is so lame. There are real victims out there - let them be the only ones.