Cry-Bully : A new thinking disorder for the chattering class

[cronus]

http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/0 ... nd-victor/

Meet the Cry-Bully: a hideous hybrid of victim and victor

In the 1970s, there was a big difference between bullies and cry-babies. Your mum would have preferred you to hang around with the latter, but sometimes the former had a twisted charisma so strong that you found yourself joining in the taunts of ‘Onion Head! ’ at some poor unfortunate creature sporting a cranium of a somewhat allium caste. After a bit, of course, if you had anything about you, you realized what a knob you were being and went off to sample the more solitary, civilized pleasures of shoplifting and reading Oscar Wilde with the bedroom curtains closed. But you could be certain, as you festered in your pilfered Chelsea Girl vest, that bullies were bullies and cry-babies were cry-babies and never the twain would meet.

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[Jason]

The Cry-Bully always explains to the point of demanding that one agrees with them and always complains to the point of insisting that one is persecuting them. They really are the very worst sort of modern moaner.


"Social-Justice" warriors?

[laklak]

Fuck all of 'em.

[cronus]

A close cousin of passive-aggression.

[Jason]

That's pretty much what I was thinking; it's just a logical progression from the same type of behaviour.

[mistermack]

Reminds me of some eco warriors, picking up the kids in their range rovers.

[rainbow]

A close cousin of passive-aggression.

That's OK, don't mind how hurtful it is to others.