Baiting
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What is baiting?
The dictionary describes to ‘bait’ someone as:
‘To intentionally make a person angry by saying or doing things to annoy them’
For example:
- Ignore him - he’s just baiting you.
- I suspect he was just baiting me.
Others describe baiting as:
A provocative act used to solicit an angry, aggressive or emotional response from another individual
Baiting and bullying
Baiting can be used in bullying both on and offline. It can be used to bully someone to get ‘a rise’ out of them and it can be used to antagonise those who might be bullying others to get them to bully. Sometimes baiting is used secretively to try and get a person to explode in a rage or react negatively/loudly so that they get into trouble.
What NOT to do:
- Don’t take the bait!
- Don’t argue with a person or appeal to their sense of reason or logic while they are baiting you. They want you to rise to it!
- Don’t retaliate and fall into a trap.
What TO do:
- Learn to recognise baiting for what it is. If you kno...
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