Tag: bullying

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Another thing about bullying:

  • If an adult pushed another adult to the ground and forced them to eat dirt/dog shit/vomit/whatever it would be called “abuse”, the public would be horrified, and the aggressor would be in prison.
  • It would be “sexual assault” if that adult sneaked up behind another and cut their bra strap with scissors, pulled their skirt up or their pants down, or grabbed body parts for “laughs”.
  • It would be “assault” if an adult followed another adult home every day to spit on them, yell slurs, hit them, trip them, etc.
  • It would be “theft” if an adult stole another’s food and belongings.

So why the flying fuck when kids do these things to other kids, adults say “it’s just typical schoolyard roughhousing, it’s normal!”

NO IT’S FUCKING NOT??

It’s abuse of a human being and it’s far from “normal”, it’s a LEARNED BEHAVIOR from a SHITTY ENVIRONMENT. The victim will have to battle this trauma and the resulting complexes for the rest of their lives, and if your child does these things to others, it means you seriously fucked up as a parent. You child is not “normal”, they are an abuser.

All of these examples were things that I either experienced or saw done to others at school when I was a kid. And these things continued to happen because the shitty abusive adults with shitty abusive children would say “kids will be kids!”

Call it what it is. Bullying is not “normal”, it’s abuse.

And for all the kids currently going through this, I’m SO sorry that the incompetent adults around you are trivializing your pain. 

You are not “crazy”, you are not “too sensitive”, you are not a “snitch”. You are a human being bearing the weight of someone else’s major fuckup and your feelings are 110% valid.

children will do awful things because they’re still learning about what’s appropriate, about boundaries and to respect the bodies of others

HOWEVER that doesn’t mean this behaviour is alright, it means that they should be taught it’s wrong! adults that don’t do anything about it are teaching shitty lessons