My Daughters best friend has a son who has been badly affected by a terrible tragedy that happened at his school yesterday. He is 10. A boy in the next grade was found by his teacher after she went looking for him when he didn’t return from the bathroom. He had committed suicide with a knife and was already dead when his teacher found him. He was just 11. My God. What is happening to our children? Apparently he was being bullied. Please pray for his loved ones as they try and cope with this, his classmates and many others. Thank you.
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I'm on the fence, bullying is natural human behavior to an extent. The issue is "Nerds" have gone from being something you don't want to be called, to being trendy, which is why "they" continue to group everything in to "nerd" fandom. They want young men to be complacent with their identities as high school kids forever. Get enough nerds and anti bullying campaigns out there and you can guarantee young men will never take the true right of passage "to look inward." That is what is important. I was fat in middle school, and I was teased endlessly for it. Hell this one kid gave me a bra as a Christmas present one time. It hurt like hell, I cried, and my mother assured me that I was a good sweet child and I just needed to be a good person, but my dad. He looked at me and said I was being pathetic. He said that being a truly good person is looking in the mirror and either being prepared to accept the consequences of who you are, or changing yourself until you like who's in the mirror. I chose the latter, and it paid off. I got in the gym, ate healthier and was all of the sudden someone who was athletic, well liked and knew what it meant to sacrifice and persevere. Some amount of that is needed in society to let us grow stronger. That being said the real issue is the parents, they are either raising sociopathic douchebags who go way beyond "bullying." Or they are raising doormats who fall down with the slightest transgressions. It's hell out their for children now a days with the weirdos who raise them. Nobody seems to teach respect, honor, courage, or anything else that should be regarded as paramount when growing up. It's all either, be controlled by your desires, or take the easy way out. Both highly toxic and extremely narcissistic. Just like most couples it seems.
Not all kids are physically capable of exercising themselves into heath.. Have a child with spina bifida, or one with only 20% vision, or cerebral palsy or any of hundreds of potential issues and your suggestion is to just look at yourself in the mirror and accept some bully beating the shit out of you? Bullying isn't a right of passage unless you promote it as such. Ever watch that show Bully Beatdown where they put bullies in a ring with pro MMA fighters? That's what should happen. Beat up the bullies like that to send a different message, there's always someone bigger and stronger than you, just like there are always people smaller and weaker. Accept that fact and stop thinking you can push yourself up the manhood scale by beating up or belittling anyone. I knew meathead bullies that thought they were all that. Some became addicts, one went to jail for wife beating, one was killed in a bar fight.
I don't see how anyone could be on the fence with bullying. Want to be a better man? Be taught how to help out the less fortunate. Have too much testosterone in your system, go beat on a punching bag an hour a day but leave everyone else alone..
That's literally what I said but instead of kicking the bully's ass physically I did so by becoming better than them. You can't stop how people are going to feel about you. Regardless of if you beat them up. They are still going to judge.