Reminded me of this scene in Billy Madison.
high school ended 28 years ago for me, the last thing I need to do is worry over anything that happened then.
We need to teach our kids to stand up and be adults instead of letting them see us shriveled up in a ball whining over something that happened decades ago.
All this talk about bullying.....I’m sick of it.
Not the bullying so much as the whining about it.
Look, let’s talk simple human nature. Bullies always have and always will be around. That is a simple fact.
I’ll save millions of people millions of beatings, insults, embarrassments, trips to the shrink, etc. here and now.
Here is all you have to know about bullies, people: They are cowards. This is 100% accurate, 100% of the time.
They...are...cowards.
Know how to stop them? Ridiculously simple. Stand up to them. Challenge them. Get in their faces. Like all cowards, they back down. Every time.
Trust me on this one. If you or your kids didn’t know this, you know it now. From now on, if you have issues with bullying in your life-circle, it’s your own damned fault.
Reminded me of this scene in Billy Madison.
I don’t think it’s really getting worse. I think that, finally, the problem is coming out into the open and people are realizing just how serious it is.
Even now, too many people have the attitude that victims of bullies should just learn to shut up and take it, or alternately, stand up to the bully, then bullying wouldn’t be such a problem. Unfortunately, neither of those approaches is acceptable. The kids who shut up and take it end up with serious mental problems. And kids who try to stand up to the bullies often find themselves the targets of escalating abuse.
her parents should be ashamed of themselves too, selfish cruel parents beating her and not providing for her.
Met up with a woman I went to school with. She actually goes to reunions I don’t care.
She told me “remember so and so the football player? And so and so the head cheerleader? They come up to you at reunions and talk to you like they knew you in school. Now they are fat and the men are bald”
Funny is it not that time gets its own revenge on bullies.
Had a friend who went to a different school than I did.
This was in the late sixties. She was hyperfocused on a guy who wore suits and suit jackets and a pocket protector and carried a briefcase. He was sorely bullied by kids in his school.
My friend uesed to go on for long periods of time about how discusting this poor soul was. This normally nice woman became an angry vindictive witch.
Years later she was angry because at her HS reunion the guy had not attended but instead wrote a pretty pointed letter telling peoople how much he had suffered in high school. This women three decades later was raging that he was trying to ruin every one’s good time.
No insight. No compassion, me, me, me.
She grew up to be a major leftist. Dropped our 30+ year friendship when Bush won his second term.
What is terribly different today than 50 years ago, is racial violence and crime, as bullying in public schools.
Re: Bullying. It’s different now. And there are so many more ways to do it what with the new media and social networking. The idea that some defenceless kids can just man up and their problems will go away is rubbish. That bumper sticker mentality of “get over it” is nonsense. We had a bunch of thugs beat a kid to death after a bus ride here in San Antonio a few years back. So please shut up about just being John Wayne. We’ve entered new territory as a country and society and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Some kids live in an environment of terror on a daily basis; they deserve our sympathy and protection.
The best way to stop bullying is to drive a really cool car to school. And buy the beer on saturday nights.
There was a kid at my school who always picked on everyone. But it really wasn’t that bad until he started wearing a cardigan. Then he was a wooly bully.
I changed schools all the time moving all over the country growing up. I only saw bullying from the usual suspects but not from everybody or even most students. The nicest kids I went to school with was Texas.
We only lived there a year but it was a navy town and the moms made sure the new kids from military families were included in everything. I had a huge group of friends there and they were so kind to us and loads of fun. God Bless Texas.