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==Debagging as bullying== |
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Debagging can be used as a form of [[bullying]], and is technically the crime of [[simple assault]]. In 2007, [[Secretary of State for Education and Skills]] [[Alan Johnson]], in a speech to the [[National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers|NASUWT]], criticised such bullying, and criticised [[Youtube]] for hosting a movie (since removed) of a teacher being debagged, saying that such bullying "is causing some [teachers] to consider leaving the profession because of the defamation and humiliation they are forced to suffer" and that "Without the online approval which appeals to the innate insecurities of the bully, such sinister activities would have much less attraction.".<ref>{{cite news|title=Youtube condemned by minister|url=http://watfordobserver.co.uk./news/localnews/display.var.1324861.0.youtube_condemned_by_minister.php|date=[[2007-04-12]]|publisher=Newsquest Media Group|work=The Watford Observer}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=[[2007-04-10]]|author=[[Associated Press]]|title=British education minister warns malicious online videos hurting teachers|url=http://people.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=126198|work=Broadcast Newsroom}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=Belfast Telegraph|title=Teachers are devastated by pupils' net effects|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/article2445862.ece|date=[[2007-04-13]]|publisher= Independent News & Media}}</ref> |
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Epp is highly critical of teachers who regard pupils debagging one another as normal behaviour, saying that debagging makes pupils feel intimidated and uncomfortable, and that "normal is not the same as right".<ref>{{cite book|title=Systematic Violence: How Schools Hurt Children|editor=Juanita Ross Epp and Ailsa M. Watkinson|author=Juanita Ross Epp|chapter=Schools, Complicity, and Sources of Violence|pages=17|date=1996|publisher=Routledge|id=ISBN 0750705825}}</ref> |
Epp is highly critical of teachers who regard pupils debagging one another as normal behaviour, saying that debagging makes pupils feel intimidated and uncomfortable, and that "normal is not the same as right".<ref>{{cite book|title=Systematic Violence: How Schools Hurt Children|editor=Juanita Ross Epp and Ailsa M. Watkinson|author=Juanita Ross Epp|chapter=Schools, Complicity, and Sources of Violence|pages=17|date=1996|publisher=Routledge|id=ISBN 0750705825}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:49, 21 October 2007
Debagging (the name used in Britain, especially historically at the University of Oxford and Cambridge in England, and derived from "Oxford bags", a loose-fitting baggy form of trousers) or pantsing (the American word for of the act) is the pulling down of someone's skirt or pants against their wishes, typically as a practical joke. The most common method is to sneak up behind the intended victim, grab the pants (or the skirt) waistband, and apply a quick downward tug before the victim is aware of the debagger's presence.
Debagging as bullying
Debagging can be used as a form of bullying, and is technically the crime of simple assault. In 2007, Secretary of State for Education and Skills Alan Johnson, in a speech to the NASUWT, criticised such bullying, and criticised Youtube for hosting a movie (since removed) of a teacher being debagged, saying that such bullying "is causing some [teachers] to consider leaving the profession because of the defamation and humiliation they are forced to suffer" and that "Without the online approval which appeals to the innate insecurities of the bully, such sinister activities would have much less attraction.".[1][2][3]
Epp is highly critical of teachers who regard pupils debagging one another as normal behaviour, saying that debagging makes pupils feel intimidated and uncomfortable, and that "normal is not the same as right".[4]
Locus populations
Debagging is commonly performed in schools by both boys and girls, and is a popular form of attack.[5] For example, in Kaneyoshi Izumi's novel Doubt!! a highschool girl Ai gets her pants pulled down by another girl Yumi.[citation needed]
Girls will collude with dominant boys in targeting weaker boys for debagging, and may also single out those boys that do not share attributes with the dominant male group without the help of or the instigation of boys.[5]
When done by boys to other boys, debagging is seen by schoolchildren as having sexual connotations. However, because it is performed by dominant boys upon weaker boys, it is not viewed as "gay", since to do so would involve a weakening of the dominant boys' sexual image, something that contradicts the power position projected by the bullies. Instead it is viewed as "pervy". A gang of boys performing such sexual bullying on a small immature boy are considered to be "perverts", who should perhaps be devoting their sexual attention to girls, instead.[5]
In the University of Oxford, it was typically done among undergraduate students by athletic "hearties" to less athletic "aesthetes".
References
- ^ "Youtube condemned by minister". The Watford Observer. Newsquest Media Group. 2007-04-12.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Associated Press (2007-04-10). "British education minister warns malicious online videos hurting teachers". Broadcast Newsroom.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Teachers are devastated by pupils' net effects". Belfast Telegraph. Independent News & Media. 2007-04-13.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Juanita Ross Epp (1996). "Schools, Complicity, and Sources of Violence". In Juanita Ross Epp and Ailsa M. Watkinson (ed.). Systematic Violence: How Schools Hurt Children. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 0750705825.
- ^ a b c Neil Duncan (1999). Sexual Bullying: Gender Conflict and Pupil Culture in Secondary Schools. Routledge. pp. 21–32. ISBN 0415191130.