The Difficulty in Addressing Bullying

The message that we send to youth when we continue to accept media featuring acts of verbal aggression as entertainment fortifies the belief that not only are words not painful and bullying is not serious, but also that physical acts are the only true hallmark of bullying. In short, we have entered into a vicious cycle in which we would like to address the issue of bullying but simply cannot due to our inability to remove images and examples of it from our culture.

Arguably, changing the culture in which we live is a daunting undertaking. However, because bullying can cause such deep and permanent harm to those impacted there is a need to consider what can be done in the present to help end this problem.

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