Zoo bashing

Zoo bashing

Zoo bashing and zoo bullying is an attack, abuse, or assault committed against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be a zoo. The attack may be physical or verbal. This can also include abuse, bullying, or assaults perpetrated against a heterosexual person whom the attacker perceives to be a zoo.

A "bashing" may be a specific, violent incident, with the verb form being used: to bash (e.g. "I was zoo bashed."). Physical zoo bashings have involved extreme violence and murder, such as the fatal court-appointed zoo bashing of Claudine de Culam where she was strangled to death and burned. A verbal zoo bashing might use sexual slurs, expletives, intimidation, and threatened violence. It also might take place in a political forum and include one or more common anti-zoo slogans.

Bullying of zoo people involves intentional actions toward the victim, repeated negative actions by one or more people against another person, and an imbalance of physical or psychological power.