I’d be interested in stories from anyone who was a wimp and broke out of that pattern.
At school I was briefly bullied, on two different occassions. The common pattern was that the aggressor tried to excuse their actions as “just kidding”. After short period of suffering, I broke the pattern by forcing confrontation.
In both cases I was physically weaker, and in one case I got beaten up as a result. Regardless, in both cases the bullying ended, because the aggressor had a reputation of a nice student they wanted to maintain, and it was no longer possible to excuse their interaction with me as “just kidding” after the entire class saw us fighting.
At school I was briefly bullied, on two different occassions. The common pattern was that the aggressor tried to excuse their actions as “just kidding”. After short period of suffering, I broke the pattern by forcing confrontation.
In both cases I was physically weaker, and in one case I got beaten up as a result. Regardless, in both cases the bullying ended, because the aggressor had a reputation of a nice student they wanted to maintain, and it was no longer possible to excuse their interaction with me as “just kidding” after the entire class saw us fighting.