Posted by Dinah on October 5, 2011, at 8:47:46
In reply to Re: Retribution, posted by Phillipa on October 4, 2011, at 11:03:23
Picture the oddest kid in your class. The one with glasses, or overweight, or a bad complexion, or very socially awkward. Or the skinny kid with the weird glasses and skirts too long and socks that never would stay at knee high level. You don't ever remember seeing others treating that kid badly? You never treated that kid badly?
Either you grew up in paradise, or your school was abnormally anti-bullying for the time, or you had no particular reason to remember.
I was that skinny kid. I have every reason to remember. I remember it even before I was that skinny kid. I'd stand between those who would taunt and torment and the recipients of the abuse. My mama didn't tolerate that sort of behavior, and she taught me not to tolerate it either.
The bullies' mothers didn't bring them up nearly well enough.
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