For details . Bullying devastates the Target's emotional stability and can last a long time. Both women and men are victimized as Targets and serve as perpetrators. It is a type of harassment that ignores the legal condition of disparate treatment based on gender. Legality is not required for acknowledging its existence.
Bullying is unconscionable meanness and a precursor to violence, if left unchecked.
It is limited to verbal assaults and sabotage. Bullies commonly adopt surprise and secrecy to gain leverage over Targets. Bullies all adopted more than one spirit-crushing technique. Witnesses tended to see making unreasonable demands, stealing credit, blaming and threatening job loss as bigger problems than did Targets themselves. If bullying was a civil interaction, independence would be rewarded instead of having attack as a consequence.