Will Pitt can tell it to the proverbial hand...
I was born and raised a Navy brat. That means that every 18 months - 30 at the outside - I had a new home, new school, new neighborhood and new kids to play with as a yute. I have been an "outsider" for as long as I can remember. I got "bullied" every time I showed up at a new school. I learned I had two options: I could toughen up, strike back and deal with whatever consequences there might have been, or I could toughen up and take/ignore the abuse. Either way, it required me to toughen up, grow a pair and get on with the business of living.
Pitt is what? 40? 45? 55? And this ****er is still traumatized by a bully who probably doesn't even remember this pathetic cowardly ****? Cry me a ******' river DUmbass.
Same here Navy Brat all ways the outsider. I learned to ignore everyone as in a year or 2, I would never see them again.
Lots of hypocrisy back then from parents and teachers. I also got the sticks and stones lecture yet when I callled a class mate 4 eyes I got punished.
Adults refused to recognize that a broken leg will heal but names can destroy ones life, commie, red, fag, thief, slut, town idiot, cry baby, snob, trailer trash, any kind of label, handy capped, to learning disabled.
Some people are just born shy, and afraid of the things they believe they cannot control. Some as adults have become down right mean and adult bully's to cope.
Sad, I knew a woman that committed suicide at age 26 because she became of her own personality, unhinged and invited, almost encouraged everyone to dislike her. It became a threat to her when anyone tried to befriend her and she delighted in the misfortunes of others. Hell she FEED on trouble for others and came as close to a really Evil person I have yet to meet. Her death was called a suicide but I know of at least 3 people who she had spread down right lies about, they had lost jobs or family's to her meanness. HMMMMM.
Bully's know who is ripe for the picking, both as kids and adults. Like a dog they can smell fear 100 feet away. Those that walk with down cast eyes, those that do not step lively with confidence, they have a big V for victim all over them.
Alike the motorcycle gangs, those that join one are sure to come into conflict with a rival gang at some point. More and more riders are opting to remaining independents and avoid trouble as far as possible.
Kids that only hang out with those of their kind are in the same situation. I encouraged my kids to join the science club and go into some kind of sport, theater and art class to get a feel for everything, they were never bullied as they moved too fast to be really noticed.
We all have to face bully's in life, the grouchy old man that calls the cops everytime a tree limb falls off your tree into their yard, calls city inspection to inquire if you have a permit to build a deck on your home.
However kids learn to deal with bully's in childhood is a excellent lesson in how to deal with them as an adult, one cannot as an adult beat them up, so one has to use their brain to outwit them.
