[quote=Kestrel]
I disapprove of bullying, but as the saying goes; give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. I think anti-bullying campaigns that try to fight the bullies and cuddle the victims are doing nothing but teaching poor life lessons where these movements should be focused on teaching kids how to deal with bullying. It's sort of like trying to teach vipers not to bite rather than a person who goes into an area with vipers how to avoid them.Of course then we have the whole victim-blaming bullshit discussion going on, with people who are more concerned about political correctness than solving a problem. Thankfully that hasn't shown it's ugly face in this topic yet.Anyhow. Generally one should make their selves unattractive to bullies as a target. Either by tuning them out as in HeySeuss' example, or in case of physical bullying stand up for yourself and fight back. You might not win, but a couple black eyes are a surprisingly good incentive to switch targets for a bully.
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Good point with the "Teach to deal with bullies instead of fixing the bullies" part. That approach for some dumb reason didn't occur to me. It probably would be the best way to handle the bullying issue honestly. 

However, we need to be careful if we teach kids "Make the bullies want to pick on someone else", cause it's still someone getting bullied. If everyone started doing it, we'd want to be careful to make sure it encouraged the bullies to just give up, rather than decide they may want to up their game to deal with it.