[tptacek]

You were bullied viciously in high school, and the perverse result appears to be that you've become in adulthood a defender of bullying.

[waveman2]

No I am saying that trivia is trivia. What happened is at worst micro-bullying.

Actually I suspect the daughter did not want to do the course, was pressured into it by her mother and pickup on on this minor incident as an excuse to stop the course.

[tptacek]

Notice how nobody is questioning your experience of bullying, but you're casually questioning someone else's? Like I said: perverse.

[Dylan16807]

It's not 'perverse' to have different standards on what qualifies as punishable bullying. You're using some kind of false equivalence here. Yes, both an insult and a beating qualify as 'bullying', but that does not mean we should categorize them similarly.

[cnp]

Given how common such bullying is, particularly in relation to such a male dominated field (and class), you are absolutely wrong. And having a group gang up on you is anything but "micro-bullying".

[PakG1]

It's quite possible, many parents drive their kids up the wall to get them to achieve things or worse, want to live vicariously through their kids.

But such speculation is not valuable unless there is evidence to support it.

[leephillips]

I think you skimmed the article too fast. Try reading most of the words.