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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I asked why the bullied would feel self-reflection, as if its their fault for being bullied?

    What if i said that the bullies grew up in happy families, well adjusted. They just have/had a superiority complex and looked down on others. Not all fit the nice mold that you describe.

    And it doesn’t take away the fact that kids are lied to, for comfort that doesn’t help in the slightest. Followed by the nonsense nowadays where every bully is described as “afraid”.



  • Not really. It has more in common with disgust. I know it’s a common trope though.

    I remember teachers trying to make us kids feel better when someone had gotten bullied. “He’s just jealous of you”. Even then it struck me as something incredibly forced and not true. Having heard bullies laugh about the sentiment afterwards gives me reason to think they weren’t jealous.

    The same “lie” is being fed now, only in a different format. “They were afraid of him”. No, they really aren’t afraid.