When I was a kid, I figured out that the kids that cried the most and had emotional displays got all the sympathy and what they wanted. I would ask the same question, “what about my feelings?”. I was told that I was more of a thinker and I needed to have more respect for other people’s feelings. Didn’t seem fair to me then and doesn’t now.
Bullies fear guns and corporal punishment or a good punch in the mouth. Those loudmouths at OWS or any of the others that get in your face have decided that any physical retribution no matter how slight is punishable by the state.