Not all bullies in high school were 230 pounds and gave a mean purple nurple. Some wore pink and smelled like heaven-on-earth .But whether they were petite and wiley or large and menacing…bullies were the curse of high school. If you’ve ever had your head in the toilet or been publicly humiliated for wearing the wrong color shoes…you know all about the power of the bully.

 They were even worse when  their friends were around. Somehow humiliation is even more satisfying when you have an audience. Power in numbers, That’s precisely how they gained fearful control over their victims.. You can look back now with high school a safe distance away and say they must have had personality disorders or a dysfunctional family. Sounds good now doesn’t it? But in high school it was hard to have any empathy for the people who made your life a living hell. And if you felt bad for the people they stalked, you were powerless. Bullies don’t take kindly to rightful indignation.

 It’s hard to say who were feared the most…the big lugs who could break your neck or the mean girls who could break your spirit. They were a force to be reckoned with. Has this new world of politcal correctness and diversity changed the bully-victim cycle. Hell no .It’s getting worse. And now there’s U-Tube and IM’s to make it more public and even more humiliating.

 Tell us your bully stories.