A Guide To Telling a Story About Getting Bullied

Bullying resists metaphor and comparing it to almost anything usually obscures more than it illuminates.  Yet getting bullied remains a lot of a people’s first explicitly political experience, their first brush with indifferent power.  Am I projecting?  Never mind how the bully feels, or that we have all been bullies ourselves at some point in our lives.  Power appears hazy and vague to those who wield it.