By For the generation of boys and girls reared almost exclusively by women, I have been thinking about how to explain, to borrow from the character of Tyler Durden, what bullying is and what one can do about it.
In Australia, March 20th is the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence. Participating schools are to run workshops on the matter and there is a government website Bullying. No Way! (BNW) offering graphic materials and lesson plans to facilitate this event.
The workshops include sensitivity training, a wristband and the school gets a certificate of participation. Toxic masculinity is not mentioned anywhere, though it all sounds like feminist incompetence anyway, more-so because the core message is institutional intervention. Institutional responses cost taxpayer money, but are they being operated on the right premise? This article uses the Laser of Occam to dissect and cauterize the issue of bullying in Australian schools.
When I went to school in the 80’s and 90’s bullying was an ordinary occurrence and I and some of my friends were frequent targets of it. Reflecting back on it now, I realise that whilst painful then, this experience was a necessary one. It has not destroyed our lives and appears to have been at least partly instrumental in making us what we are today – fully functional members of society, sometimes quite successful in career and business. It grows thick skin and teaches one to deal with personal conflict.
In Australia, March 20th is the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence. Participating schools are to run workshops on the matter and there is a government website Bullying. No Way! (BNW) offering graphic materials and lesson plans to facilitate this event.
The workshops include sensitivity training, a wristband and the school gets a certificate of participation. Toxic masculinity is not mentioned anywhere, though it all sounds like feminist incompetence anyway, more-so because the core message is institutional intervention. Institutional responses cost taxpayer money, but are they being operated on the right premise? This article uses the Laser of Occam to dissect and cauterize the issue of bullying in Australian schools.
When I went to school in the 80’s and 90’s bullying was an ordinary occurrence and I and some of my friends were frequent targets of it. Reflecting back on it now, I realise that whilst painful then, this experience was a necessary one. It has not destroyed our lives and appears to have been at least partly instrumental in making us what we are today – fully functional members of society, sometimes quite successful in career and business. It grows thick skin and teaches one to deal with personal conflict.