It is the most common type of bullying, especially between boys. It includes hitting, shoving, and even spanking. On occasions, the victims' belongings are also stolen.
They are actions that damage the victim's self-esteem and promote their feeling of fear, with the added problem that they are the most difficult for teachers or parents to detect because they are forms of harassment that are carried out behind the back of anyone who can to intervene.
They are non-corporal actions with the purpose of discriminating, spreading gossip or rumors, excluding or spreading insulting and repeated jokes of the type giving nicknames, insulting, threatening, mocking, laughing at others, generating rumors of a racist or sexual nature, etc.
There is sexual abuse or references to intimate parts of the victim's body. It includes homophobic bullying, which is when the abuse refers to the sexual orientation of the victim for reasons of real or imagined homosexuality.
With the development of new technologies, this type of act is becoming more and more frequent. It is a very serious type of harassment and is worrying due to the visibility of the acts of humiliation against the victim and the anonymity in which the harassers can remain. The channels are very varied:
text messages on mobile phones, tablets and computers, web pages and blogs, online games, emails, chats, tasteless online surveys, social networks, identity theft to post messages, etc.
The content of bullying ranges from the typical insults to photographic or video montages in bad taste, images of the victim taken without their permission, criticism regarding the origin, religion, the economic level of the victim or their family and friends, etc.
Anything goes in order to humiliate.