@Matt McIrvin: All bullies have one thing in common: They shrink in the face of resistance because they’re all really insecure cowards, and need to pick on others as some bizarre form of self-validation.
I got bullied once in my life when I was in elementary school. The kid tried to shake me down for lunch money, I kicked him in the balls and all the other kids laughed at him while he writhed in agony.
Two things happened: 1) I got a detention and 2) I never got bullied again. And that kid never bullied anyone else again in my school once he lost that bully mystique.