Blame the Victim

There’s an incredibly stupid study just out, which basically blames socially unskilled people for being bullied.

I was going to blog about it, but the nerds at Slashdot basically covered everything I wanted to say about it anyway.

(Plus, it’s not the shy/sensitive/bully-able people in the world who need to be taught how to take perspectives other than their own; nor is the victim’s supposed lack of the ability to see how his actions affect others the cause of any amount of childhood or adult bullying. On the contrary, it’s the bullies who need to be taught how their actions affect others. D’uh. Fucking d’uh.)