Literature
Critical Thinking #12 - Bullying is Not Love
Intro:
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, my fellow audience. Welcome to the twelfth installment of my Critical Thinking series.
It’s no secret that the world loves its little myths, the sugar-coated lies we tell ourselves to make pain digestible. And there’s none more absurd, none more insulting, than the one about bullies and “hidden affection.” Yeah, you heard me—people actually say that crap out loud, as if emotional bruises and humiliation are some secret love language. Bullcrap. It’s a story we tell because it’s easier than staring down the truth: some people are selfish, some are cruel, and most of the time, nothing they do has anything to do with you. But we’re trained to romanticize it, to attach meaning to nonsense, to pretend that drama is a kind of intimacy. Well, I’m sick of it. I’ve been done sugar-coating someone else’s cruelty. This installment? It’s for the people who’ve been told to laugh it off, to forgive it, to see it as “charming.” It’s time someone ripped that lie
