Someone recently pointed out to me how porn in fact is a form of bullying and he argued that bullying in fact is the core point of why porn even exists in this world. This discussion opened up a lot of dimensions that I hadn’t considered in relation to both porn and bullying because I have recently been investigating both porn and bullying but I hadn’t as such placed the two into an interdependent context. (So thank you C!) As a teacher I travel to many schools during the wee

Why do children bully each other? Why are redheads, disabled and homosexual children often the most obvious targets of bullying? What does the mechanisms of bullying reveal about our society? This is what we will discuss in this blog-post. We are continuing from the following blog posts: What can Teachers do about Bullying? DAY 41 Bystanders to Cyberbullying Stand By Abuse: DAY 40 Cyberbullying – Who’s Responsible for the Bully in your Head? DAY 39 Cyberbullies and Suicide –

Teachers in classrooms all over the world are faced with great apathy towards solving the problem of bullying. In fact, very few teachers have received any form of training on how to deal with bullying and if you are a parent, this ought to be alarming because you do in fact not know the kind of environment you are sending your child into day after day throughout the years they attend school. As most parents know, it is also not necessarily the most easy to communicate with a

Since last Saturday a story has gone viral in the media about a 17 year old girl who has been publicly taunted and humiliated because pictures of her emerged from the past weekend’s Eminem concert in Ireland, where she is seen giving oral sex to a boy. The article was posted by the Daily Mail, a British newspaper that I regularly read because it often features news that aren’t featured in any other newspapers, news about animal abuse, child abuse and rape for example – the ki

You are sitting here in front of your computer, tablet or mobile as you read these words. Perhaps you are a parent, a teacher, a student or a concerned citizen – the topic of this blog-post is Cyberbullying and bullying in general and the question we are all asking ourselves is: who is responsible? If you are a child or a student who have been or who are exposed to bullying, whether online or ‘in real life’ (there isn’t really much of a difference), you know very well that wh