Bullying

[cebeu]

I'm adding this topic to my "boring and inconsequential list.”

With the proliferation of “on-line bullying” and the spate of resulting government interventions (state bills, laws) and lame-stream media expose’s on the topic, I’m flat-out bored with it. Christ man…are you friggin’ kidding me? If you are that f****** sensitive and vulnerable Darwin most likely already has something planned for you anyway, the continued pussification of America in my book.

Of course, I presume it’s more difficult to battle-back these days when what used to work well, “bustin’ a dick-heads nose,” is now considered felonious assault versus a resolution (ßremember when 5th grade parking-lot fisticuffs often turned into a junior high-school friendship instead of a lawsuit with whining parents and media coverage). Further, this on-line thing, hard to “push-back” if you do not have a grasp of the vernacular and are incapable of “on-line punches to the skull” via the written-word but…at the end of the day…is this really deserving of our time and focus? Maybe it is and I’m the one off-base.

DISCLAIMER: I would have a difficult time standing in a room with a family who has lost a child to suicide as a result of bullying while trying to defend this opinion. But, I struggle more with the continued “lowest common denominator” approach to solving everything. Life experiences...some good…some bad…move on…

[JohnTRourke]

for god's sake (to pansies of bullies) turn the freaking computer off.
it's just a tool, it's not real life.

fucking entire nation of pansies circling the bowl.

just flush the fucking thing already and let's start over.

[trlcavscout]

Without being bullied most kids wont learn to fight, wont get tough and learn to stand up for themselves. Hell sounds like most liberals! If some kid is calling you names or throwing you beatings and you kill yourself instead of handling it, you have other bigger problems. Hell thats how I learned most of what I know was starting fights and getting picked on by older kids.

[FireMoth]

Shit, i remember when bullys used to hit people with their cars int he high school parking lot.

I didn't even realize some one could be bullied with text.

[TS12000]

I think it's good for both sides to just handle it the old fashioned way. What ever happened to if someone puts their hands on you, you show them why they'll never do it again? Kids who are getting picked on learn to defend themselves and handle their own problems, and kids who bully learn that their actions have consequences and at some point you will get your ass beat acting like a retard.

[TFOGGER]

What we have here is a generation gap. 30+ years ago, when I was in school, if you got into a fight on school grounds, whoever started it got a 1 day suspension. If you took it off school grounds, nobody got suspended, you worked out your differences, and got on with life. Dads and older brothers taught the younger kids to stand up for themselves. Mouthy kids got black eyes and a lesson in manners. Any and/or all of the above have been made illegal in the last 25 years.

[funkfool]

[Fromk]

It's even the pussification of bullies who no longer have to antagonize someone in person. There's no accountability for anyone any more.

[HBARleatherneck]

delete

[sniper7]

You guys are a bunch of whiney pansies! You should all join the hippy fourms and shove it.

Tissue?