I stfg if I hear one more person this week misuse the word bullying I’m going to lose my shit. Words have meaning and when we don’t use them correctly they lose the weight and severity they carry. Someone being rude, dismissive, or saying something you don’t like IS NOT BULLYING. Bullying is a pervasive and distinctive repeated pattern of malicious and deliberate harm and humiliation. It is intentional acts of aggression, hostility, disrespect or mistreatment.