Bully for Your Thoughts

    
     Ok, I didn't really know how to respond to what TCY sent me.  It is a subject that has had great debate at my house.  I think in some warped fucked up way, TCY makes a valid point but then the normal rational part of my brain wakes up and realizes what TCY is saying and smacks some sense into me.

Bullies are Character Builders

Today, they are trying their best to turn this world into a hippie utopia. One of the things that they are going after now is stomping out bullies. The only place that this is practical is in the aforementioned utopia.  Bullies I'm sure everyone would agree are rotten bastards. I have another angle I want to come at you with (of course).

Bullies do serve a valuable purpose in the real world. Every man and child has been bullied, most have actually done some bullying somewhere along the line. Whether it be a little brother, cousin or kid down the road, you’re most likely guilty of this politically incorrect act. That being said, think about this, that bullying experience shapes who you are. The way a person deals with confrontation shows a lot about that person. It is a social skill. Children learn young, under uninhibited conditions their hierarchy in life, and learning this young gives the young person time to change that standing if he or she desires.  Now taking away the bully from the schoolyard ,where does a child learn this. In real life you have to admit that as adults we have to encounter confrontation. You can even under certain circumstances call it bullying at the adult level.

Let's look at some scenarios.

Your at the ball game with your son, a fly ball is hit in your direction, you reach up to catch this ball and in the back of your head your thinking how much your kid is going to look up to you for getting him a game ball. The ball hits the inside of your glove and you begin to bring the glove down, and the guy on the side of you reaches into your glove and takes your ball! What do you do? If you had encountered a bully at a younger age, your response to this will be equivalent to that. If you punked out as a kid your going to punk out as a dad, and your kid is going to suffer heartache because his dad just got punked right in front of him. Oh, you'll keep the family tradition of being a big puss going by explaining to your kid that "in this world son there are bad people, you just have to keep out of their way".

Now, same thing happens BUT when you were young you faced a bully and stood up to him, you fought him. It doesn't matter who won the fight, you stood up and fought like a little man. Now you’re a dad and the bully has taken your kids ball. You stand up to him demanding he give the ball back. If he gives it back great if not you speak softly so the kids can't hear and tell him that if he doesn't give you the ball YOU WILL BEAT HIM DOWN in front of God and everybody. You get your ball, the kid looks up to and you've shown your kid that you don't back up from evil you confront it and you over come it.

Children should not be protected from bullies, they should be taught how to stand up for themselves, how to be little men. These will be tomorrow’s leaders and if they have not learned how to stand up and defend themselves as kids they will be a lot like the leaders we presently have. Men who will not stand up for this country, instead they will as our PresBro is doing now go around and apologize for being great.

You'll never know who you really are until your tested. Isn't it better to be tested young so that if you fail you will have plenty of time to change the way you do things? Time to mold yourself into someone whom you can respect when you go to sleep at night.  Adversity makes you strong. To quote what a wise man once said " what ever doesn't kill you makes you stronger". Let's allow our children to grow up strong. Strong people made this a strong country. These pansy waisted puppies we have in Washington right now are showing the world that we are weak.

Fight back

TCY

    Ok, I agree with standing up to bullies.  Whether you get your ass kicked or not, it is the thing to do.  The problem nowadays is that bullies are more dangerous than when I was a kid and even when TCY was a kid.  How does a 5th grader stand up to a bully who is palming a blade and packing heat?  That 5th grader stands up for himself and then takes a bullet in the chest.  Then what? The parent of the deceased young boy goes to the parents house to confront the wonderful parents of the bully and they tell him to fuck off.  His son had to shoot their son because he was bullying him?  These days now, kids have access to way more than before.  They can log online and learn how to make a pipe bomb from unconventional things around the house in the basement or garage.  They can get information to steal identities.  Do you know that most virus's that people get are mostly from people under the age of 18!  Yep, underage cyber-bullies! Little teenagers who know how to bring chaos and destruction from the touch of a button.  Counterfeiting, identity theft, pirating and bullying.  You name it.  Being able to fuck up someone's life with just a mouse and keyboard, I can see why teenagers with raging hormones enjoy doing it.  Hey, TCY, think of a person from your past that bullied you, and made you feel like a worthless piece of shit. Now, think of how good you would feel if with the click of a button, you could wipe out his savings account, get him fired from his job and have him go up the FBI's most wanted list with the few taps on a keyboard and the click of a mouse button.  Tell me, that would not give you a rush?
     Anyway, back to the original point, standing up to a bully is a must.  But having a zero tolerance policy in school is now almost a necessity because once a kid is dead from a bully, he's dead.  There is no bringing him back to life or resetting the game. 
     But just for TCY, even though they are trying to get bullies out of school, there is still outside of school.  Kids will still hang out after school and go to friends houses and play basketball in the street in a local neighborhood.  Besides school, there is still plenty of places for bullies to do what they do.  Bullies will still show their face, and then the children can stand up and put him or her in their place.  Yes, there are girl bullies out there too.  They don't get an exception!  And they are the worst.  Not just physical bullying but they use that mind-fuck bullying!  Making a little girls head so fucked up, like cyber bullying her on facebook and in school, she hangs herself in her room!