How to Make Fun of Someone Who Is Making Fun of You: 7 Witty Comebacks

As clearly shown in the graph above, you can see that the more subtle ways of bullying are the highest and the more obvious ones the lowest. Bullying has a lot of negative repercussions but perhaps the worst one is that often people who are bullied will go into a state of depression whether as an immediate effect or something that hits them later in life. If you are a parent and you are worried and wondering if your child is depressed, here is an article on how to know if your teenager is depressed. And if you have an inkling that your child might be getting bullied at school, please intervene and inform the school authorities before it affects their mental health a lot more.

HOW TO HANDLE BEING MADE FUN OF

Just because someone is making fun of you doesn’t mean that you have to let them get away with it. You can and should always fight back when someone attacks you based on your looks, race, interests, religion, or sexuality – among other things. Always stand up for yourself and don’t let the bully win by trying to be “the bigger person.”

Here are a few ways you can stand up for yourself against a bully without getting in trouble with any authority figures, or the law.

WHAT TO SAY WHEN SOMEONE IS MOCKING YOU

1. ASK THEM WHAT THEY MEAN

When someone makes fun of you and you want to humiliate them in front of the very same people they were trying to humiliate you in, just ask them “what do you mean?” with your face as straight as you can make it. Everyone knows that the joke seizes to be funny once it has to be explained, so what better way to unravel them than by asking them to explain their own joke and why they think it is funny. 9 out of 10 times, they will give up and walk away because they do not want to explain themselves and when they do try to explain themselves, they will realize that their joke wasn’t as funny. Sure, they may try to sleaze around and make other jokes but every time they do, there you will be armed with the same question; What do you mean?

2. PLAY ALONG

If you are one of those people that constantly think ‘everyone makes fun of me’ then this trick is for you. First and foremost, you have to understand that the joke is funny as long as they get the reaction they think they are going to get from you. For example, when someone lies and says that you smell bad, the reaction they are looking for is for you to be defensive or ashamed. But what if you weren’t? What if instead of running away or crying, or defending yourself with an “I don’t smell bad, take that back!” you replied with “not my fault we can’t afford soap” this will catch them completely off guard because they will not have gotten the reaction that they were expecting from you making their joke flop and as a bonus, now everyone thinks they are a meanie who makes fun of poor people.

3. PASSIVE AGGRESSIVELY MOCK THEM BACK

If you have friends that make fun of you all the time, the best thing you can do whenever they are making fun of you is to passive-aggressively make fun of them back. Being passive-aggressive means that you covertly say things that will hurt them while being super nice about it. For example, if your friends are making fun of your clothes, you may rebuttal with “aw, but your style is so much better though. Nice shoes” make sure you put emphasis on a few words to really sell it.

Not only does this register to them as if you like their style, but it also doesn’t seem like a mean thing to say and unless they catch onto what you are doing, your mind doesn’t know the difference and you will be less likely to take their comments to heart because your brain will register the rebuttal as a success therefore effectively not making you the butt of the joke.

4. BE SARCASTIC

Sarcasm is a great way to come back at someone who is making fun of you. Your tone of voice and witty saying can have that much of a sting when said sarcastically all the while making the person who is making fun of you look dumb because let’s face it, not everyone is quick-witted enough to catch on to a sarcastic comment.

WHAT TO DO WHEN PEOPLE MAKE FUN OF YOU

5. GO OFF-SCRIPT

If you are being made fun of by someone in a large group setting, the best thing you can do for yourself is to go off-script. But what does going off the script mean? Well, simply put, do not play along with what the bully is expecting of you. Whatever reaction they are expecting (or they have gotten from you from the past, do the opposite). For example, if every time someone says a mean thing to you you get visibly sad, try laughing in their face the next time they say something and watch their reaction. It will be totally priceless because they will not have been expecting you to react any different and therefore they will not be getting the satisfaction that they would normally get from your normal reaction. Find new ways to defeat the bully, don’t play into their games.

6. TURN THE JOKE AROUND ON THEM

If someone is making fun of you and you are tired of being the butt of their jokes every time, you can always turn the jokes around on them. You can either agree with them too much to a point where their jokes aren’t funny anymore and they stop trying, or you can stop giving them the attention they want by not laughing at their jokes at all. This would be really effective if you got other people who are equally tired of their jokes to join you into boycotting laughing at their jokes. That should stop them because if there is no one laughing at the jokes they make on behalf of other people’s expenses, then maybe they are not as funny as they thought they were, to begin with.

7. IGNORE THEM

The mature thing to do to people who like making fun of others is to completely ignore them and make it obvious that they are being ignored. Do not give them any form of reaction, good or bad. Do not acknowledge their joke or rude comment, and if they make a comment in the middle of you talking, do not skip a beat, just keep on talking like they didn’t say anything or you didn’t hear them say a thing. Eventually, they will get the idea and stop bothering you and making fun of you at your expense.

GOOD COMEBACKS WHEN SOMEONE MAKES FUN OF YOU