re: #245 Mattand

I got picked on occasionally in elementary school and high school. Nowhere near what other people have gone through, but enough to empathize with the victims. To this day, I still tense up when someone is getting bullied in a tv show or movie.

It’s also why I get angry with the whole “Just ignore them” or “Just get over it” advice people often dispense in these situations. Because 99.9% of the time, the people dealing out those bullshit platitudes either have never had to deal with bullying, or did it themselves at some point.

my problem in elementary school was parents who insisted “don’t fight back” because they had no goddamned experience getting bullied. I finally had to smack the crap out of the 300 lb. fourth grade gal who kept getting up in my shit, and after that, I got some peace. I never got my revenge on the two other kids who made my life hell in elementary school, but they both died really young, so I guess someone was evening the score for me.