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tiareleine 's review for:
Tease
by Amanda Maciel
Tease follows a girl named Sara who (along with a number of other students) is facing criminal charges following the suicide of her classmate, Emma. Prior to Emma's suicide, Sara and her friends had engaged in a vicious campaign of harassment and bullying.
It was interesting to see a story told from a bully's point of view. Bully character's are often treated as essentially forces of pure evil with no real underlying motivation. While Sara and her friends were basically pure evil in their treatment of Emma, they had motives (even if they were shitty ones; mostly, they didn't like that Emma kept inserting herself in their social circle and taking the boys attention away from them. Like I said, shitty motivations).
I think in order to address bullying, you have to understand why it's happening. But if your "why" is just "these people are irredeemable monsters" you're not going to get anywhere. Most people don't bully just because they want to be mean. They bully because of twisted logic and misplaced fear. To get them to stop, you have to address their problems at the roots.
It was interesting to see a story told from a bully's point of view. Bully character's are often treated as essentially forces of pure evil with no real underlying motivation. While Sara and her friends were basically pure evil in their treatment of Emma, they had motives (even if they were shitty ones; mostly, they didn't like that Emma kept inserting herself in their social circle and taking the boys attention away from them. Like I said, shitty motivations).
I think in order to address bullying, you have to understand why it's happening. But if your "why" is just "these people are irredeemable monsters" you're not going to get anywhere. Most people don't bully just because they want to be mean. They bully because of twisted logic and misplaced fear. To get them to stop, you have to address their problems at the roots.