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To: Lane3 who wrote (12352)	4/25/2001 2:35:59 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Did they ever give their definition of bullying? It's a critical thing to know in understanding the statistics. For example, "Belittling insults about looks or speech were a common form of bullying cited by the subjects." Frankly, I don't consider saying "your nose ring looks SO dumb" to be bullying. According to my dictionary, to bully is defined as "v.t. to intimidate or terrorize. v.i. to be loudly arrogant and overbearing." I think we're dealing with the transient sense here, bullying somebody. Is a belittling insult about looks really bullying? There's a danger, IMO, of minimizing the danger of "true" bullying if we spread the net too wide and call simple rudeness bullying. So I'm curious what their definition was. Does the article give that?

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