[oldplayer]

“Oh, so-and-so” is bullying me[.]” never works in the long-run. We encouraging bullying when we run to someone else to protect us from mean words.

Grow a backbone. This forum is probably full of members who finally one day didn’t cower to a bully and remember it as a day that changed their lives,

“Sticks and stones. . ..” was a motto my Choctaw grandmother thought me and I carried throughout my life. Worked well.

[centermass_socrates]

I guess it’s out of favor now for someone to tell some pansy to suck it up, or to grow a set of balls.

I just saw a clip on Newsmax about some school in Conn. (I think it was Conn.) that wants to start monitoring the social media accounts of students to ensure that possible signs of bullying other students is revealed and dealt with by the school system.
I’m still looking for a link to post about it. Anyone else run across this story??
If this is true, wt heck?!?

[lapsus calami]

 

 

The hypersensitivity and lowering the bar over what constitutes bullying and conflict has negatively impacted society by mangling the natural social development of children. The ability for proper aggression is being suppressed right out of people, with children being indoctrinated into submissive compliance in any circumstance. That's creating a culture of apathetic people, who won't fully engage in society as they should. I keep encountering young adults who don't know what to do, how to proportionally react when things go outside the margins. They're grown people, who should know how to handle mundane adversities in life and at work. Keep seeing deer in the headlights freeze-ups, brainlocks, physically shaking, even overt fear over stuff that shouldn't faze them like that. I think in time much of that can be overcome, but it's time lost that could have been beneficial.