The 12 Steps of Bullies Anonymous

from ManicMoe - Saturday, April 23, 2005
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Disclaimer: I didn't write this. It was sent to me by a friend.

1. Admitted we were powerless over our disdain for the
survivors and our strong-arm campaign had become
unmanageable (not to mention that letting the
condescension show had become counterproductive to our
own goals).

2. Came to believe that listening to others for a
change could restore us to sanity (or even just some
basic standards of conduct).

3. Made a decision to turn our media domination
campaign and our business plan over to the
professionalism of the FBI as we understood it.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves (Note to Self: Jules does not qualify as
“ourselves”).

5. Admitted to MovingOn, to ourselves and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to cease and desist in acting
out all these defects of character (without reference
to anybody else’s defects) and humbly asked MovingOn
to point out how we could mitigate our shortcomings
(without reference to anybody else’s shortcomings).

7. Made a list of all the survivors we had
revictimized and became willing to make amends to them
all.

8. Made amends to such survivors wherever possible
except where to do so would further injure them or
other survivors.

9. Continued to take personal inventory of ourselves
(Note to Self: inventory of Nancy does not qualify as
“personal” unless you are Nancy) and when we’d been
scummy promptly admitted it.

10. Sought through reasoning and medication to improve
our conscious contact with reality as a consensus of
reasonable persons understood it, praying only for
common decency and the power to carry that out.

11. Acknowledged that this was not all about myself
and that no, Ricky’s story was not my story nor were
the SGs’ stories mine. Also noted the spelling of
subpoena and that it has nothing to do with having a
subpar phallus.

12. Having had a rude awakening as the result of these
Steps, we tried to carry this message to insensitive
narcissists and to practice these principles in all
our affairs.

Do not be discouraged. None of us has maintained
anything like perfect adherence to these principles of
civility, but we are willing to grow along common
sense lines. The tips we have set out are guides to
progress. We claim progress in respectfulness rather
than perfect self-awareness.

(If this fellowship is not for you, there is always
Saviour Complex Anonymous, Johnny-Come-Latelies
Anonymous, and Bull-in-a-China Shop Anonymous.