[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
When I was a kid, if anyone bullied me, I’d hit them with my violin case.[/quote]
Haha, I did the same… with my viola case.
BBB[/quote]
In junior high, I beat them up with my flute case.
Yeah, that’s right. Bad ass fucking flute player…with big ass glasses…and toothpick arms. Hell, I would probably make fun of me.
Idk, seems to me that some of these cases being highlighted involve some very disturbed human beings. Like when the European girl who immigrated to the U.S. hung herself, the girls who tormented her showed up at the funeral and were laughing and making remarks while standing in front of her body. I was never really bullied but I can’t imagine even the worst of the worst that I knew from school being the sort that would do something like that.
[quote]OsakaNate wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Also:
Do you really just blame the ‘‘bullies’’ for this? This was an 18 year old man in college who was gay. I am not sure what ‘‘streamed over the internet’’ means but if it involves video he recorded himself on the internet, who do you blame?[/quote]
I read about this.
Apparently the roommate hid a webcam in the kid’s room and broadcast live an encounter the dude had with another guy. It wasn’t recorded by the guy himself. Also, I seem to remember that the guy hadn’t come out either, so it had to be a fairly embarrassing situation for him.
Not that I am saying that he handled it well, or that the roommate should be charged with murder or anything, just clearing up the facts of the case for discussion.[/quote]
That is fucked up then and eludes to the fact that people today lack “tact”. There is joking around…and then there is trying to tear someone apart and leave them devastated.
However, I also think a man who sleeps with other men should expect for that to be public knowledge at some point. You can’t keep shit like that secret on a college campus.
Hell, you can barely keep ANY secrets on a college campus if you are well known.
[quote]Seego wrote:
Idk, seems to me that some of these cases being highlighted involve some very disturbed human beings. Like when the European girl who immigrated to the U.S. hung herself, the girls who tormented her showed up at the funeral and were laughing and making remarks while standing in front of her body. I was never really bullied but I can’t imagine even the worst of the worst that I knew from school being the sort that would do something like that.[/quote]
I agree with that. Much of it stems from the fact that these younger people feel they are beyond any consequences. Youtube babies. They think their every move is worth broadcasting to the world. Twitter freaks telling everyone how many times they wipe their ass a day. All of this leads to entitled fuckers who think they are above any retaliation.
That is on the level of being a fucking psychopath and is not simply “bullying” someone.
I was bullied badly as a kid in middle school, and I got into a lot of fights and did stupid things because of it. However, those things made me a wiser and stronger person now.
I agree with a poster above me that this is the carrying-on of the “self-esteem” trend that started (and failed miserably) decades ago. You can’t just protect “kids” from everything, nor should you try. PAIN is important for GROWTH, this is true in bodybuilding and throughout life.
[quote]cct wrote:
Preach it, Prof X!
I’d say that bullying made me stronger. My bullies have taught me a lot about toughening up and some became good friends with me.[/quote]
ha. I have alot of bullies that I became friends with but it only happens after finally beating their asses.
I was bullied in HS mostly because I wasn’t into drugs and most of my school was. You fight, you win, they stop. It also made me push harder. Arnold was bullied by his own dad, which pushed him to get stronger.
They’re trying to push “Anti-Bullying” legislation now which is IMHO retarded.
A lion has claws and teeth, passing a law won’t stop it from hunting.
I think the internet allows for a different ‘breed’ of bullying, in that, unlike the past where you could move away from your past, now, not so much. Things haunt much more than they used to.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Seego wrote:
Idk, seems to me that some of these cases being highlighted involve some very disturbed human beings. Like when the European girl who immigrated to the U.S. hung herself, the girls who tormented her showed up at the funeral and were laughing and making remarks while standing in front of her body. I was never really bullied but I can’t imagine even the worst of the worst that I knew from school being the sort that would do something like that.[/quote]
I agree with that. Much of it stems from the fact that these younger people feel they are beyond any consequences. Youtube babies. They think their every move is worth broadcasting to the world. Twitter freaks telling everyone how many times they wipe their ass a day. All of this leads to entitled fuckers who think they are above any retaliation.
That is on the level of being a fucking psychopath and is not simply “bullying” someone.[/quote]
Seriously. Some people just have legitimate mental problems.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
Some kids do come out stronger after being bullied. The problem is you have kids that are 10, 11, 12 years old committing suicide because of bullying. Obviously something is wrong with the parent(s) there if a kid that young doesn’t have enough self-worth to feel that suicide is their only option. But still, I’d rather see those kids live than do nothing at all and tell the kid to simply deal with it.[/quote]
SS, you’re assuming that the parents know about the bullying.
Many kids keep it to themselves, because the parents might do something that could very well possibly make it WORSE for the kids.
My parents knew very little about being bullied at school. Now, in the neighborhood, she knew a little more… but, not much. [/quote]
I never told my parents anything. But then, I wasn’t raised to think acting like a victim was a good thing.[/quote]
I got picked on primary school untill the last grade. In middle school in the first year I would become one of the “cool” people, had my first girlfriend… but didn’t know how to handle myself, so after that I would become one of the nerds again. This went on untill far in the second class, the bullying went on and got intenser. Even to a point where it disgusting myself and looked in the mirror every morning telling myself this couldn’t go on. Then I broke, one guy got physical and I punched him, several times. That was the first time I beated someones ass and I came up for myself…
I learnt a lot from that period, not acting like a victim and learning to take action into my own hands. Thank god I outgrew some of the concepts the way I was raised.
[quote]OsakaNate wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Also:
Do you really just blame the ‘‘bullies’’ for this? This was an 18 year old man in college who was gay. I am not sure what ‘‘streamed over the internet’’ means but if it involves video he recorded himself on the internet, who do you blame?[/quote]
I read about this.
Apparently the roommate hid a webcam in the kid’s room and broadcast live an encounter the dude had with another guy. It wasn’t recorded by the guy himself. Also, I seem to remember that the guy hadn’t come out either, so it had to be a fairly embarrassing situation for him.
Not that I am saying that he handled it well, or that the roommate should be charged with murder or anything, just clearing up the facts of the case for discussion.[/quote]
But it was a shared room and he told him he didn’t like the situation. It is messed up but if you have a shared room it is no longer so much a private act.
[quote]apbt55 wrote:
But it was a shared room and he told him he didn’t like the situation. It is messed up but if you have a shared room it is no longer so much a private act.
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You do realise that collecting or viewing sexual images without consent is a crime, and that transmitting them without consent is also a crime?
Or do you think that if someone installed a webcam in your bathroom that’d be fine because it’s a “shared room”?
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
When I was a kid, if anyone bullied me, I’d hit them with my violin case.[/quote]
she means accordion, but violin sounds tougher
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
Some kids do come out stronger after being bullied. The problem is you have kids that are 10, 11, 12 years old committing suicide because of bullying. Obviously something is wrong with the parent(s) there if a kid that young doesn’t have enough self-worth to feel that suicide is their only option. But still, I’d rather see those kids live than do nothing at all and tell the kid to simply deal with it.[/quote]
I’ve read that the single biggest influence on a young persons mind is their peer group. No matter how cool my mom thought I was, it wasn’t going to help me any during my awkward phase in middle school.
I have to agree that the internet has fucked up things even more. A kid used to be able to go home and get away from the bullying, now he has to go home and get shit on there as well. I know in alot of cases where there is big media coverage in younger kids suicides, things like AIM and definitly facebook are involved.
My point being, these kids might be misguided and “soft”, but when your getting bullied on the internet, it’s a whole new ballgame.
I think it’s funny to see how the grade school bullies look now, good ole facebook. All the ones I dealt with are fat, ugly, POS mother fuckers now. It makes me grin. Looking back now it makes me think they were so insecure about themselves that they messed with other kids to make themselves feel better.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Twitter freaks telling everyone how many times they wipe their ass a day. [/quote]
Tell me about it! Then you have those assholes who need to tell the world every time they fart in public!
[quote]mr popular wrote:
PAIN is important for GROWTH, this is true in bodybuilding and throughout life.[/quote]
Great post.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
When I was a kid, if anyone bullied me, I’d hit them with my violin case.[/quote]
This is the most pimp thing I have ever heard.
theres typical high school nonsense that goes on, then theres people who are just fucked up…
"the day Phoebe took her own life, one of the bullies wrote the cold word “accomplishedâ?? on Phoebe’s Facebook page.”
