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You are absolutely right! One of my pet peeves is how our society accepts double standards when they favor females, but reject them when they favor males. It's especially frustrating how most men seem to support that practice. I am glad that you agree with me!
Yes, all of them were with boys. In my day, girls didn't really bully boys. That seems to be more recent thing, since the girls realize that they can get away with it and there is absolutely nothing that the boys can do.
I do wonder what I would have done if I had been bullied by a girl. Remember, my parents told me not to hit a girl not even in a life and death situation. Personally, I think life and death situations are or at least should be an exception to any rule.
Did you see girls bully each other when you were in school? How did the school treat those cases?
Some could be called a Bully depending on they use their body be it verbal, pushing, taunting.(you get the picture).
In my high school there were a few blacks that would push themselves in a way to make everyone get out of their way when walking down the hall etc.
There was three that would intentionally hit your shoulder hard with their shoulder making a person spin around.
I saw them do it to many and just laugh afterwards.
One day as they came towards me I knew what was coming so I hit this one guys shoulder real hard with mine that spun him around.
He was surprised and came to me face to face looking for a fight. I looked into his eye and said "what are you going to do about it?"He smiled and laughed a little and just walked away with his friends. (That was vaguely what I remembered since it was a long time ago)
Do recall that when ever we passed in the halls he always had a smile and would say "hows it going Steve?"
We were friends from then on in school....no more hitting me in the shoulder as I stood up to him.
Some could be called a Bully depending on they use their body be it verbal, pushing, taunting.(you get the picture).
In my high school there were a few blacks that would push themselves in a way to make everyone get out of their way when walking down the hall etc.
There was three that would intentionally hit your shoulder hard with their shoulder making a person spin around.
I saw them do it to many and just laugh afterwards.
One day as they came towards me I knew what was coming so I hit this one guys shoulder real hard with mine that spun him around.
He was surprised and came to me face to face looking for a fight. I looked into his eye and said "what are you going to do about it?"He smiled and laughed a little and just walked away with his friends. (That was vaguely what I remembered since it was a long time ago)
Do recall that when ever we passed in the halls he always had a smile and would say "hows it going Steve?"
We were friends from then on in school....no more hitting me in the shoulder as I stood up to him.
Sometimes friendships between guys start with some type of altercation, usually relatively minor. I have seen that happen a number of times.
Getting into trouble together can also initiate a friendship between guys. That happened to me with some of my friends at school -- we got into trouble for something, served detention together, hung out afterward and then got to closer friends. Without getting into trouble together, the friendship might have remained more limited.
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Did you see girls bully each other when you were in school? How did the school treat those cases?
I didn't witness it much, so I don't really have an answer.
But I can post about one interesting situation that I remember. I remember on the bus one day, one of the school's most notorious male bullies but gum in the hair of one of my female friends. And I remember another girl started laughing at her. And I remember the girl who laughed at her got detention, but the guy who put the gum in her hair did not get any punishment at all. Even though my school normally heavily favored girls, this was an exception: I guess their hierarchy was bullies first, girls second, guys last.
I didn't witness it much, so I don't really have an answer.
But I can post about one interesting situation that I remember. I remember on the bus one day, one of the school's most notorious male bullies but gum in the hair of one of my female friends. And I remember another girl started laughing at her. And I remember the girl who laughed at her got detention, but the guy who put the gum in her hair did not get any punishment at all. Even though my school normally heavily favored girls, this was an exception: I guess their hierarchy was bullies first, girls second, guys last.
When you were in detention, were the vast majority of the kids there boys, or was it a mix of boys and girls?
But I can post about one interesting situation that I remember. I remember on the bus one day, one of the school's most notorious male bullies but gum in the hair of one of my female friends. And I remember another girl started laughing at her. And I remember the girl who laughed at her got detention, but the guy who put the gum in her hair did not get any punishment at all. Even though my school normally heavily favored girls, this was an exception: I guess their hierarchy was bullies first, girls second, guys last.
A few times in 7th and 8th grades a fews other boys put gum in my hair. When I turned around to see what was happening I didn't get detention but I was sent to the principal's office. Nothing happened to the perpetrator. I guess since one of their parents was going through a divorce I had to be "understanding."
When you were in detention, were the vast majority of the kids there boys, or was it a mix of boys and girls?
Detention was almost all boys. The situation I mentioned above was one of the very few scenarios where a girl was given detention. Ironically, it was a case where she didn't really deserve the detention, or, at the very least, a boy deserved it more than she did.
Detention was almost all boys. The situation I mentioned above was one of the very few scenarios where a girl was given detention. Ironically, it was a case where she didn't really deserve the detention, or, at the very least, a boy deserved it more than she did.
That school was pretty hapless in administering discipline.
That school was pretty hapless in administering discipline.
To paraphrase what we say on Passover (Pesach), wherefore is this school different from (almost) any other school?
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