[AOII Angel]

What is manning up? Is it talking back to your bully? Is it going to the principal yourself?is it fighting the bully who may be much larger or bring along three friends? I think this discussion of manning up is ridiculous and in most cases does not good or worse may result in the victim getting really hurt. Real life isn't like the movie "Lucas," and joining the football team, taking a few hard hits, and tutoring the dumb jock isn't going to make the scrawny nerd popular.

BTW...there is a big difference between psychological and physical bullying like in the case of the rectal tear kid. As for the girl who committed suicide, it sounds like a mix since the girl punched another girl in the head for talking to a reporter after the girl's death. Also, bringing the parents' actions back into this is irrelevant since this whole discussion of manning up was about teenagers needing to buck up and take care of themselves.