text: "Do we see it as violence when every year Lucy lays Charlie Brown out flat by withdrawing the football?"
  
  I've been around for over 50 years, and remember when I was young and read Peanuts. I saw that as bullying even then. I'm not slamming Peanuts, by the way. I have no real issues with the strip, but the idea that such behavior is only recently considered "bullying" is dubious.