Task Force 16
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The definition of "Bullying" has become so distorted these days that it doesn't even resemble what I knew "bullying" to be when I was kid.
When I was a kid, bullies were the kids that always targeted other kids that were not prone to sticking up for themselves, often smaller and /ormore timid than them. These bullies weren't near as tough as they wanted everyone else to believe. I learned this while in Jr high. I shut down a few bullies whileI was in school and I didn't have to kick their butts to do it. All I had to do was stand up to them and let them know that I wasn't intimidated by them. I wasn't always bigger or stronger than the bully either (not to mention that I wasn't much of a skilled fighter). And by doing this in front of witnesses word got out that they were not the badies once thought. Soon, standing up to anyone that tried to bully another became a group event, with multiple kids confronting a bully. We didn't have to go run to the authorities (teachers) to deal with bullies, we took care of business ourselves.
Now days they want to include all sorts of annoying behavior as bullying. Repeated tugging on a girls ponytail or braids would get you slugged or your shins kicked by a girl. Now, it's become a form of bullying and the perp is sentenced to expulsion and mandated to phsychiatric counseling.
AZD, the threat of violence works to counter a threat of violence. You know it does or you wouldn't carry a firearm, which is a contradiction of what you seem to proffess.
I'm still not much of a fighter (physically) and now that I'm older, well....... you know how that goes (my can O Whupass has dried up). But I'm still not going to cower from anyone or run from a fight. It may be the death of me some day, but I'm just crazy like that, ya know. Always have been. Oh yeah, I'm pretty thick skinned, too, so it takes allot to get me riled.
The definition of "Bullying" has become so distorted these days that it doesn't even resemble what I knew "bullying" to be when I was kid.
When I was a kid, bullies were the kids that always targeted other kids that were not prone to sticking up for themselves, often smaller and /ormore timid than them. These bullies weren't near as tough as they wanted everyone else to believe. I learned this while in Jr high. I shut down a few bullies whileI was in school and I didn't have to kick their butts to do it. All I had to do was stand up to them and let them know that I wasn't intimidated by them. I wasn't always bigger or stronger than the bully either (not to mention that I wasn't much of a skilled fighter). And by doing this in front of witnesses word got out that they were not the badies once thought. Soon, standing up to anyone that tried to bully another became a group event, with multiple kids confronting a bully. We didn't have to go run to the authorities (teachers) to deal with bullies, we took care of business ourselves.
Now days they want to include all sorts of annoying behavior as bullying. Repeated tugging on a girls ponytail or braids would get you slugged or your shins kicked by a girl. Now, it's become a form of bullying and the perp is sentenced to expulsion and mandated to phsychiatric counseling.
AZD, the threat of violence works to counter a threat of violence. You know it does or you wouldn't carry a firearm, which is a contradiction of what you seem to proffess.
I'm still not much of a fighter (physically) and now that I'm older, well....... you know how that goes (my can O Whupass has dried up). But I'm still not going to cower from anyone or run from a fight. It may be the death of me some day, but I'm just crazy like that, ya know. Always have been. Oh yeah, I'm pretty thick skinned, too, so it takes allot to get me riled.