When a fat person where tight jenes or a shirt that is to short and leaves the stomach hanging out, a congressamn from georgia says that guam will flip over, a drugie runs into a wall, or some one in your class asks a rly stupid question, what do you do? Do you laugh, maybe make a crack or two, or even criticize that? At what point does legitimate criticism become bullying? ((This a question that was raised to today.))

My deffinition of criticizing:

Criticism is in reference to THINGS a person has / does. And not an attack on the person as virtue of their existance.

Bullying is going out of your way to find things about a person, and continually berate them. This would include even making fun of them for, lets say, wearing things that you your self have.

Based on those deffinitions I do not find it to be considered bullying if someone in your school wears clothes are to revealing, say things like 'The Civil war was between the United States and Germany'. it is not bullying if you criticise the person for the later, and laugh at them about the former.

There is a very fine line between bullying to hurt some one, and criticising because they are doing some thing you disagree with. If you are criticizing someone just to make your self feel better then that is bullying. if you criticize someone because they are doing/wearing some thing stupid, and it based merely off of your values, and not off some personal gain ti is not bullying.

What is your view on this subject.

-Anubis

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Comment by Dean on April 21, 2010 at 5:42pm: People don't always know when they're bullying, and you can't always judge how someone will take something. Also, I find myself bullying sometimes and don't really know that I'm doing it until I stop and think because being a big one comes naturally to all of us at times and we're pretty good at justifying it along the way.

Sometimes, when I'm really annoyed, I can be a pretty effective jerk and the criticism I offer can be pretty judgmental and hurtful even if I don't see it as such. This is classified as bullying.

Comment by Sol McNally Aka : Dmitri Girl on April 20, 2010 at 9:59am: Criticizing is when you have good intentions of making that person a better person.

Bullying is when you personally attack an individual about the same concept on a scheduled basis and do not show concern.

Another way of putting this criticism comes from normally someone you consider friend or family or someone you as a person respect. A Bully is someone who you see do the same thing to not only you but also to others about the same or similar topics a bully generally has very low self esteem. And is trying to make themselves look better while making others look lower then themselves.

Definition of criticize @ Free Dictionary.com

To judge the merits and faults of; analyze and evaluate.

Definition of bully @ Free Dictionary.com

A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people

Comment by JS on April 20, 2010 at 9:14am: At which point does taking the piss become criticism?

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