Many times we
come across people who try to intimidate others not by using physical violence
but by indulging in verbal violence. Emotional and verbal abuse includes
elements of trying to shout or scream at others for getting one’s point of
view.
This is
extremely common among people who want to show their dominance above others
whether juniors or people whom they deem below them in terms of status. This is
one of the most common malaises in work places nowadays where working decency
seems to be a lost cause. Most people feel free to express themselves in high
volume and using verbal violence as a form of communication to bring obedience
into other people around them, without realizing the adverse effects of the
same on others. It is often done to establish their dominance over others to
make minnows out of seeming aberrant, quite forgetting that this hardly
constitutes any adult behavior.
Such people
exhibit their own lack of sophistication or their inability of dealing with
others politely. This is a part of power dynamics where people try to use
verbal abuse to cower others down into submission. Most of these people try to
hide behind the façade of the burden of their own failures and once the failure
or shortcoming is discovered they throw the mistake on someone else, trying to
intimidate the other person while making them submissive and afraid. This type
of behavior not only sours the relationship between people but it also makes
those inflicting verbal violence feel very powerful till such time when they
meet with their adversary.
