It’s traditional for a father to teach his son that he should defend himself. He may lose the fight, but respect is gained. And, you’d be surprised, many bullies are actually cowards and will fold early.
There are many novels directed at young people that show how to behave in these situations. It’s not clear that anyone reads them anymore.
It’s important to work these things out early in life, before the “events” get too serious. Refer to the Wikipedia article on “The Dozens”.
(I have no idea how mothers traditionally taught their daughters to stand up to bullies, but I’m sure they did.)
You should learn about bullying from science, not from out of fashion novels. Try out your intervention in a dozen randomly selected schools, try a different one (or do nothing) in the others.
This has in fact been done, and nothing resembling your approach, what one might call the "Manhood YouTube channel" approach, has done well at all.
You propose people, other people, should do a specific thing. That's an intervention you're proposing.
Yes, I've mentioned elsewhere in the thread the book that is school bullying 101, "Bullying in school: what we know and what we can do", Dan Olweus, 1991. It contains the results of the first large scale intervention studies on preventing bullying in schools.
There are many novels directed at young people that show how to behave in these situations. It’s not clear that anyone reads them anymore.
It’s important to work these things out early in life, before the “events” get too serious. Refer to the Wikipedia article on “The Dozens”.
(I have no idea how mothers traditionally taught their daughters to stand up to bullies, but I’m sure they did.)