A mockery can be a joke or a joke.
A mockery is a comment or gesture that is intended to ridicule a person, an object or a situation. According to the context and the geographical region, mockery can be considered as a synonym for a joke , a joke , a joke or a joke .
For example: "The teacher, when she noticed that Raúl was making fun of her, punished him immediately" , "I guess the president was not serious, since his words were a mockery for all the inhabitants of this city" , "I am Tired of being made fun of for my last name .
Mocking and context
Teasing can be taken as something positive or negative depending on the context . When two or more people trust each other and are interacting in a pleasant way, they can make fun of each other without any harm being done. Generally, in these cases, mockery is taken as something nice that is funny and fun. Suppose a man is talking to a friend and gets his name confused, calling him something else; The person wrongly referred to can laugh and make fun of his interlocutor for his mistake, without this offending the former.
On the other hand, when mockery aims to humiliate the other, it is a reprehensible and dangerous issue. An individual can become the center of ridicule for his religion , his clothing, his physical appearance or his sexuality, among other possibilities, and this is not pleasant for anyone. If the teasing is repeated on a sustained basis, it may even be referred to as harassment . Several examples of this type of teasing can be found in schools, when some children are constantly teased by their peers and become victims of the phenomenon known as bullying .
Constant teasing turns into harassment and causes serious harm to the victim.
School bullying
Thousands of children go through this every day, and most don't know how to deal with it. They get up early to go to school, fighting between the need not to disappoint their elders and the fear of approaching that building in which they will suffer a large number of unpleasant and offensive situations that they believe are impossible to avoid. Mockery is like another classmate, like a presence that awaits them at school and that never tires of acting.
Unfortunately, both the attitude of the abusers and the weakness of the abused have their roots in their upbringing, in the way of being of their elders and in their teachings; This makes a situation that should be a mere confrontation between two sides become very complex, like a network of distorted values that branches out over several generations and continues to cause harm as it develops. A resentful father who transmits his frustration to his children sows a dangerous seed that not only does not repair his own suffering but also puts the well-being of others at risk.
Mockery as abuse
In an ideal world, mockery would not exist. Why laugh at differences, instead of learning from them? What's funny about a partner's excess weight or the size of his nose or ears? Does our body really want to respond with laughter to a disease like Asperger's syndrome or Parkinson's disease? It is unacceptable that our species is capable of causing so much harm gratuitously, but there are reasons behind such evil.
Behind every abuser there is usually abuse. A child who teases has been teased before, or continues to be teased in another setting. Violence begets violence , a popular saying in our language, as true as few others, but which is not repeated enough. Mockery may seem innocent, but it is so serious that it can lead to suicide or depression, if it is not channeled to affect more people.