It seems that everyone from Senator Mark Kelly, to the Bullying Research Network, is discussing bullying these days.
However, people seem to have entirely separate ideas about what bullying is.
For example, while flipping channels, I heard a woman say that she was being “bullied” by her budget.
It was puzzling.
To her, “bullying” meant to be thwarted.
Obviously, she felt that she was entitled to beautiful things and beautiful experiences.
However, her “mean ole bank account” wouldn’t allow it.
People who don’t realize what true bullying feels like, don’t realize that although everyone is owed rights from the Federal Government, none of us are owed anything by God, or the Universe.
It’s us who owe good behavior to God.
For me, being bullied means to be harmed (either emotionally or physically) by people who are attempting to prove their superiority over you.
People who bully want you to feel as small as possible, so that they can feel as big as possible.
In the 2026 Hulu TV thriller The Beauty (based on the 2015 graphic novel), some of the characters long to be super-model beautiful, and feel trapped in their homely bodies.
I suppose that the people who feel “imperfect” in The Beauty feel bullied by fate, a fate that didn’t give them the lives that they think they deserve.
In episode 1, Jaquel Spivey plays a lonely INCEL (Jeremy) who turns to plastic surgery, hoping that a reconstructed face will give him happiness by getting him laid.
Plastic surgery doesn’t work.
However, an engineered, sexually-transmitted virus transforms him into a new Jeremy (played in episodes 2-11 by Jeremy Pope).
Another character in the series is a megalomaniac, played by Ashton Kutcher and (in a single episode) Vincent D’Onofrio.
This “titan of industry” wants to become a younger, healthier version of himself, plus make tons of money from the virus by spreading it everywhere.
His wife (Fanny) is played by Isabella Rossellini.
Unlike many characters in the series, Fanny doesn’t want to be transformed into a “more beautiful” version of herself.
She’s content with her appearance, just as it is, and doesn’t want to look younger.
It’s interesting that the personifications of physical perfection in The Beauty TV series are diverse, at least in terms of skin color and hair texture, if not in terms of body weight.
The casting agents weren’t influenced by the MAGA ideal of beauty, one in which middle-aged women are emulating plastic sex toys.
When I skimmed the 919 pages of Project 2025, I learned that many of its’ authors feel hatred toward “The Left.”
At the same time, however, they desperately want Libs to think as they do.
They seem distressed about trans people, and the idea that racial divisions are not a biological fact.
I suppose that the ultimate goal is to no longer “be owned” by liberal thinking, and its’ alarming openness to diversity.
It is possible to feel bullied by others thinking ideas that you don’t share.
However, that simply isn’t bullying.
This concept of MAGA and Project 2025 “owning the Left,” is as puzzling as the idea that one could be “bullied by a budget.”
Don’t the writers of Project 2025 understand that most of this country will never return to the societal theories of the 1950’s?
We’ve been heading in these directions since at least the 1910’s.
Do they really believe that “the Left” is looking for ways to dominate them, just as they are searching for ways to dominate “the Left?”
I’ve reflected on the final words of Renee Nicole Good: “I’m not mad at you,” to the I.C.E. agent, who then shot her.
Renee Good wasn’t angry at the agent; all she wanted was to drive away.
However, something about her words, certainly enraged him.
It seems that he perceived her words as disrespect, and felt justified in reacting to that disrespect with bullets.
In Minneapolis, the people demonstrating against I.C.E., wanted to be treated with consideration.
At first, they likely expected the same level of courtesy from I.C.E. agents that they experienced from local police.
They soon learned, however, that I.C.E. doesn’t see demonstrators as people who deserve respect.
I.C.E. has been trained to see sanctuary city citizens as agitators and enemies, just as they saw the families crossing the Mexican-American border as threats and enemies.
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I think back to a comment from Border Chief Greg Bovino (days before he was ordered to leave Minneapolis) in which he said that Chicago demonstrators were much “tougher” than Minneapolis demonstrators.
He was taunting the citizens of Minneapolis.
Around the U.S., I.C.E. has reacted to hinderance of its’ objectives with pepper spray, smoke grenades, rubber bullets, and live ammunition.
I.C.E. has been trained to smash car windows, tackle citizens, and add new faces to its’ “Antifa” database.
Demonstrators carry signs, wear funny costumes, blow whistles (and respond with the occasional thrown sandwich, kicked fender, or curse words).
Yet, “border czar” Tom Homen suggest that it’s the I.C.E agents who are being bullied by the demonstrators!
Both the U.S.A. female hockey team, and the male hockey team, won gold this year at the Winter Olympic games in Milan.
To the annoyance of many, Fox TV news personalities didn’t just praise the American teams for winning; they mocked the Canadian teams for merely winning silver.
Whatever happened to good sportsmanship?
Whatever happened to “It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game?”
Instead of honoring both teams for playing well, the bullying Fox newscasters reacted as if Canada was an enemy that they had conquered.
We’re a divided nation.
Is one of the dividing lines, the way in which we define bullying?
*While Manhattan street urchins taunted Cedric for his British accent (in Little Lord Fauntleroy), Cedric never confronted Ben Tipton (the boy set to replace him) in the 1936 film. Was the scene cut?
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