Sidestepping the Jingle Fallacy: Bullying, Aggression, and the Importance of Knowing the Diff erence
PH Hawley, KN Stump, J Ratliff - Bullying in North American …, 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
Awareness of the “problem of the bully” goes back hundreds of years, references to which
emerge in the literature as early as the late 1600s. Th ese literary references, as such
references generally do, shape public perceptions. Famously, for example, a deeply
disenfranchised Mr. Bumble from Oliver Twist (Dickens, 1838/1846), a “hard hearted brute”
who was so insensitive to tears that his “heart was waterproof,” was characterized as having
a “decided propensity for bullying” in which he “derived no inconsiderable pleasure from the …
emerge in the literature as early as the late 1600s. Th ese literary references, as such
references generally do, shape public perceptions. Famously, for example, a deeply
disenfranchised Mr. Bumble from Oliver Twist (Dickens, 1838/1846), a “hard hearted brute”
who was so insensitive to tears that his “heart was waterproof,” was characterized as having
a “decided propensity for bullying” in which he “derived no inconsiderable pleasure from the …