I have no idea why some consider harassment acceptable as long as it’s kids harassing each other. The same behavior by an adult would have serious repercussions and even land him in jail.
Bullies pick victims that they know cannot fight back. They not only harass the victim, they recruit others to harass the victim. I’ve heard of instances where parents of victims have gone to the extreme of moving to get their child away from the bullying situation. That is utterly wrong—no one should have to move because of an abusive bully.
I get really tired of this attitude that victims of bullies should just suck up and take the abuse (and that they’re weak crybabies if they don’t). Really? Why should any victim of abuse just learn to take it? Or that they should somehow fight back—usually said by some guy who is so big that no one would dare try to bully him.
Victims of bullying sometimes feel so helpless that they end up committing suicide. Other victims of bullying end up with psychological problems for the rest of their lives—unable to ever form lasting relationships, unable to make friends, unable to work at a steady job.
Bullying is not a case of “kids will be kids.” It is as serious as any other kind of child abuse, and the fact that it is perpetrated by a child does not change that fact.
Good for Montana, that it is finally addressing the problem.
I haven’t heard anyone say that the victims of bullies should take the abuse.
And this isn’t the first time you’ve said that more government is the solution.
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Maybe if the present crop of metrosexualized woosies had learned to fight back instead wearing pink shirts on Thursday, they wouldn’t need the collective herd to pass a law for protectification whilst being edumacated by their state keepers.