Blog #12

 

 

      There was a situation in my high school when one of my fellow students, a girl, was getting bullied constantly at lunch time. The bullies consisted of five males that made it their aim to make fun of this girl because she was different in that she loved the environment, wore very loose clothing, and liked to appear natural in body image. Over the school year I had gotten to know this girl very well and came to appreciate her good qualities of kindness, love and generosity. However, every lunch I would watch these boys, who were popular, make fun of her to the point of her actually starting to cry. I asked her why she never stood up to them. She said, she just didn’t know what to say. I considered it my duty to help her. So I took her aside and told her to plainly walk up to the boys in front of everyone at lunch and ask them why they were bullying her. I told her, that the boys would probably not have an intelligent answer for her. So after she asked them I told her to perhaps tell the boys, in front of everyone else, how it made her feel, to be honest maybe even cry a little. This would be the wrong advice to give to a girl if she was being bullied by girls, however it was only boys. I expressed to her that the boys wouldn’t know what to do with tears and would probably stop after she made such a big deal about it. And it turned out that from that day forward they left her completely alone and wanted nothing more to do with her. They felt so embarrassed and shamed in public that they even ate in a different area. She was so happy that they finally left her alone.