Bullies, Bullying, and the Bullied

[Hosienation]

Bullies bleed too. Kids and adults need to realize this fact.

Everybody has a limit to what they can take from people. Most times just telling on who's bothering you, won't put an end to what's happening. Sometimes you have to get violent. Sometimes you have to just go to jail.

Did Tina ask Ike nicely to stop hitting her, or did she clock that nigga upside the dome with a stiletto? I'll wait...

Did Nat Turner ask his owners nicely to free him, or did some m'f'ers have to die? Yes, they caught and killed him, but still...

Arnold finally had to fight The Gooch. Didn't he?

I could go in forever.

[michigancat]

Internet bullying isn't any worse than regular bullying imo. Easier to do but also easier to avoid.

Is it?

Picture a 12 year old kid, who perhaps isn't even allowed to participate on internet sites frequented by others, who is knows that there is frequent disparaging materials posted about them and they can't do anything to prevent it.  Everyone's laughing at them, and rumor mongering.  They feel completely powerless, alone and worthless.  Every part of their life is impacted by it.  In their mind, there is no escape from it.

It happens all the time.

Yes, that is easier to avoid and ignore than someone you see every day face to face at school.

[The1BigWillie]

Internet bullying isn't any worse than regular bullying imo. Easier to do but also easier to avoid.

Is it?

Picture a 12 year old kid 30 yr old UMKC grad, who perhaps isn't even allowed to participate on internet sites frequented by others, who is knows that there is frequent disparaging materials posted about them and they can't do anything to prevent it.  Everyone's laughing at them, and rumor mongering.  They feel completely powerless, alone and worthless.  Every part of their life is impacted by it.  In their mind, there is no escape from it.

It happens all the time.

  Sorry Beems

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

internet bullying is the worst. people can just post whatever they want and sometimes they can remain anonymous.

my little brother posted a picture on facebook a few months ago and a kid called him a fat man of taste and distinction. a week later my brother beat the living piss out of the kid at school because the kid said "hey did you see my comment man of taste and distinction?" when he walked by in the hallway. my mom showed the comment to the principal and my brother got suspended for 3 days and the other kid 2 weeks.

appropriately handled? no. but i guarantee that kid will think twice before cyber bullying again.

you don't know what cyber bullying is.

Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm or harass other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbullying

yeah, i seem pretty confused. wiki dont lie, brah, wiki dont lie.

[Pete]

Internet bullying isn't any worse than regular bullying imo. Easier to do but also easier to avoid.

Is it?

Picture a 12 year old kid, who perhaps isn't even allowed to participate on internet sites frequented by others, who is knows that there is frequent disparaging materials posted about them and they can't do anything to prevent it.  Everyone's laughing at them, and rumor mongering.  They feel completely powerless, alone and worthless.  Every part of their life is impacted by it.  In their mind, there is no escape from it.

It happens all the time.

Yes, that is easier to avoid and ignore than someone you see every day face to face at school.

My point is that frequently the participants or people who consume the disparaging material are still are the people that you see every day face to face at school, but the bullying is happening online....school officials/teachers can't see it and it easily goes unchecked. 

I mean, we are splitting hairs here I guess.  Bullying is bullying.  If the victim feels powerless, alone, and worthless, it's bullying.

[Johnny Wichita]

Bullies bleed too. Kids and adults need to realize this fact.

Everybody has a limit to what they can take from people. Most times just telling on who's bothering you, won't put an end to what's happening. Sometimes you have to get violent. Sometimes you have to just go to jail.

Did Tina ask Ike nicely to stop hitting her, or did she clock that nigga upside the dome with a stiletto? I'll wait...

Did Nat Turner ask his owners nicely to free him, or did some m'f'ers have to die? Yes, they caught and killed him, but still...

Arnold finally had to fight The Gooch. Didn't he?

I could go in forever.

   Also....  Hosie!!!!

[8manpick]

Bullies bleed too. Kids and adults need to realize this fact.

Everybody has a limit to what they can take from people. Most times just telling on who's bothering you, won't put an end to what's happening. Sometimes you have to get violent. Sometimes you have to just go to jail.

Did Tina ask Ike nicely to stop hitting her, or did she clock that nigga upside the dome with a stiletto? I'll wait...

Did Nat Turner ask his owners nicely to free him, or did some m'f'ers have to die? Yes, they caught and killed him, but still...

Arnold finally had to fight The Gooch. Didn't he?

I could go in forever.

Welcome Hosie!

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Oh crap, Hosie is here!

['taterblast]

middle school was the worst

[slobber]

Canadian friend had his balls sprayed with that stickum crap that you spray on your ankles prior to getting them taped. I don't think it was bullying. I think the guy that got punched for doing it wasn't trying to bully my Canadian friend, he just thought he was being funny.

[nicname]

Internet bullying isn't any worse than regular bullying imo. Easier to do but also easier to avoid.

[OK_Cat]

i think we can justify PI'ing because if beems or fanning don't want to take it, they can stop logging in.  Not sure that's the correct way of thinking, but BSAC has yet to bring down an anti-PI'ing agenda so that's his fault.

[EMAWmeister]

Hosie!!! 

Can we get a #tipsforhosie update?

[The Big Train]

I was born in MHK but from K-middle of HS I wasn't living close to MHK at all.  I was bullied a lot when I was younger even tho I was always taller and bigger than the other kids I was just shy.  The school district I was in I saw bullying all the time and there were literally defined cliques like you see in the movies, cool kids, nerds, goths, wanna-bes, all of them. 

I had 2 kids in my class commit suicide because of bullying.  The first one was in 7th grade, shot himself with his dads pistol, and the other my freshman year, his own shotgun.  Needless to say when I moved away during the middle of HS I told about 4-5 people I was leaving because I literally didn't care about the other people because of everything.

The school I moved to and graduated from is very close to MHK and was the exact opposite, in my class anyway.  Everyone in my class got along great and I didn't have any issues there.  I wish I would have been 6'4" 250 solid like I am now back then.

[CNS]

Cyberbullying is worse than face to face because it magnifies the effect.  Bullying is about violence/threat of pain, but it is more about humiliation.  Being bullied in the hallway in front of the 50 ppl in that hallway would suck, but when most of the school is networked to each other through Facebook, it's a different level.  I would also think that if someone is cyberbullying(at least with regards to school kids) it is probably usually paired with the face to face bullying too.  Just provides an additional avenue to bully through with the ability to reach a wide audience.

I would imagine that being bullied leaves a person wishing that it didn't happen but also that others didn't know.  The internet makes it hard for the latter to be possible. 

The good news is that the internet also makes it possible for the powers that be(parents, school admin, etc) have a greater oppy to see that it is happening and to do something about it.

That said, I feel like the absolute best thing you could do to a bully is punch their face in and kick them until someone drags you off of them.  Worth a couple days off I would think.

[Trim]

We should put The Big Train in a gE superhero costume and go school to school eradicating bullying.

[chum1]

MHS was exactly like every teen movie.  And that was fantastic.

[KCFDcat]

man, I grew up in joco and was bullied bad from about 7-10th grade. I was super skinny and kind of had a stutter. nothing violent ever happened, but I definitely hated going to school and the teachers really didn't care.

I particularly remember one time in 8th grade there was a rumor spread around that I crapped my pants at school  and everyone was talking about it. I went to the counselor and told her about it and she asked "well, did you?" 

needless to say I was glad when I came back to highschool junior year after I had hit puberty. I was never a popular guy but at least I was able to keep my head down and be left alone.

oddly enough my Fiance came home the other day and told me a guy I went to hs with started working in her office, she told me his name and he was one of the worst offenders. she asked him if he knew me and he told her I was really cool in hs. maybe he just feels bad or forgot about all the terrible crap he said/did.

[wetwillie]

I don't think physical stature really matters all that much in who gets bullied, at least from what I have witnessed.

[Stevesie60]

I don't think physical stature really matters all that much in who gets bullied, at least from what I have witnessed.

Really? I've never seen an athlete get bullied.

[DQ12]

some jerks in my hs created a fake internet girl persona and made one of the kids who didn't have very many friends believe that she was interested in him so they could laugh and laugh and laugh about the prospect of this loser thinking that a real life girl was actually interested in him. 

can't imagine how humiliated that kid was when he found out that he (and his romantic life) was a huge joke played on him by people that didn't take him seriously.  i hated those assholes and told them so at the time.

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

MHS was exactly like every teen movie.  And that was fantastic.

Yes, I always heard that new arrivals thought MHS was "extremely cliquey."

(One time, when gym class was letting out, the QB turned and punched the kid everyone always picked on right in the damn face.  For no damn reason.  I was walking next to them.  Nobody did anything.  I feel bad about that.)

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

some jerks in my hs created a fake internet girl persona and made one of the kids who didn't have very many friends believe that she was interested in him so they could laugh and laugh and laugh about the prospect of this loser thinking that a real life girl was actually interested in him. 

can't imagine how humiliated that kid was when he found out that he (and his romantic life) was a huge joke played on him by people that didn't take him seriously.  i hated those assholes and told them so at the time.

thou shalt not internet bully...

[slobber]

I can't remember who talked about pooping and boners in the shower earlier and I don't want to look back to find out. I did know some guys that went to Washburn Rural HS and they told me stories about pooping and whacking it in the showers. Also, they talked about poop fights. Are all of these real things? I always thought the guys from Washburn Rural were just exaggerating. I would guess that those guys were bullies if those stories are true.

<Sorry to any of you that are Washburn Rural graduates for this shocking internet report.>

[Stevesie60]

Beems was the only one throwing poop. Everyone else thought it was gross.