Why are you so ugly? What is wrong with you? Why are you so annoying all the time? I must be a nobody, if you are my friend? Why can't you act like us? Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Or can they? In an ideal world, words would not hurt, and we could easily ignore them, but this world is far from ideal. Verbal aggression is something we have grown up with. We all have felt the pain it causes, whether it was as a child on the playground being teased, or as a member of the basketball team that just wasn't good ....