So… I was just called a “bully” for disagreeing with someone.
As a criminologist who specializes in bullying AND who’s had a long history of being victimized BY bullies, I felt the need to step in here and educate.
1. Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves unwanted, negative actions. 2. Bullying involves a pattern of behavior repeated over time. 3. Bullying involves an imbalance of power or strength.
Bullying is also peer-to-peer so a teacher can’t bully a student and a parent cannot bully a child. That’s called harassment and child abuse respectively, ok? Bullying, otoh is between peers like co-workers, students, adults, children, K?
The increasingly popular sugar substitute Xylitol is poisonous to dogs!!!
Found in many items like gum, diabetic foods and sweets, “sugar-free” items, toothpaste, and so on, Xylitol is incredibly toxic to dogs so please please PLEASE be careful and protect your pooch!
Symptoms of xylitol poisoning in dogs include the following:
Weakness or lethargy
Depression
Walking drunk
Acute collapse
Vomiting
Trembling or tremoring
Seizures
A racing heart rate
Jaundiced gums
Black-tarry stool
Diarrhea
Bruising
Abnormal mentation
Clotting problems
Death
If you think your dog was accidentally poisoned by a sugar-free product, first, stay calm! Next, read the ingredients to see if the product contained xylitol. The general rule is that if xylitol is listed in the first 3-5 ingredients (typically in order of the amount that they appear in the food or product), it is going to be poisonous!*
*If your dog does get into something sugar-free, always check the ingredient list. Note that other sound-a-likes like sorbitol, maltitol, and erythritol are not poisonous to dogs. Likewise, other sugar-free products such as stevia, saccharin, sucralose, aspartame, etc. are also not poisonous to dogs. If your dog gets into one of these other sound-a-likes, it’s not poisonous. No need to worry, as long as you’re positive there’s no xylitol!
With xylitol poisoning, it is imperative to calculate whether a toxic dose has been ingested. In dogs, doses > 0.1 g/kg are considered toxic and result in profound, sudden problems. Higher doses (> 0.5 g/kg)… READ MORE
So… I was just called a “bully” for disagreeing with someone.
As a criminologist who specializes in bullying AND who’s had a long history of being victimized BY bullies, I felt the need to step in here and educate.
1. Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves unwanted, negative actions. 2. Bullying involves a pattern of behavior repeated over time. 3. Bullying involves an imbalance of power or strength.
Bullying is also peer-to-peer so a teacher can’t bully a student and a parent cannot bully a child. That’s called harassment and child abuse respectively, ok? Bullying, otoh is between peers like co-workers, students, adults, children, K?
So… I was just called a “bully” for disagreeing with someone.
As a criminologist who specializes in bullying AND who’s had a long history of being victimized BY bullies, I felt the need to step in here and educate.
1. Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves unwanted, negative actions. 2. Bullying involves a pattern of behavior repeated over time. 3. Bullying involves an imbalance of power or strength.
Bullying is also peer-to-peer so a teacher can’t bully a student and a parent cannot bully a child. That’s called harassment and child abuse respectively, ok? Bullying, otoh is between peers like co-workers, students, adults, children, K?
apparently e.l. james called former child star mara wilson (matilda) a “sad fuck” for critiquing the 50shades books a while ago and now there’s a feud. i love it.
