Bullies

"If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen"

Not even pro football players
avoid bullying, apparently.
Jonathan Martin has
accused fellow player
Richie Incognito.

may have merit, but when the kitchen is the locker room

or school, and the heat is that of bullies, what to do? 

How best to act, for safety and integrity, for others 

who may lack the skills or will to stand up for themselves?

Hurting people hurt the ones around them, subconscious

adaptation to another adage: "Misery loves company."

(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013