Bullying, How Far Does It Go?

[Atone]

Ok so, Last few days i was doing alot of thinking about some things. and then today, i went to visit my old middle school, same school my little sister goes to now, and it brought back alot of fucked up memories.

And for the last week i've been playing GTA V Online, with crews/friends and often times would have randoms in the lobby with us, and, alot of times i'd throw in some jabs with everybody else.

Just the other day, me, and 2 or 3 others from this site were playin online mode and we all ganged up on 1 lady and were verbally attacking her, now, it didn't feel like we were bullying her al lto much, she was getting irritated but i figured, if it bothered her so much she could easily mute us, and after awhile, i began to feel bad cuz it just became non stop, thankfully, my little sister was needing my help with some stuff, so i got off the game for a bit.

Now, a little back history.

The Middle School i went to, was horrible, i would deal with bullies every day to the point where after school, i would hide under parked cars to get away from gangs/bullies, and sometimes even run and knock on strange peoples doors in hopes to hide inside their house because i had 5 or 6 people trying to mess with me, i would go to teachers, who, never helped, the principal didn't do anything, and the vice principal, well, he was lazy as shit, and unfortanatly, he is now the Principal of the school, and my sister has to deal with the same old faculty.

I remember one day, after school everybody was waiting for the busses, somebody flipped my back pack over my head, and the weight from all the books sent me falling face first to the concrete, i ended up going home that day with a huge lump on my head, what did the teachers do about it? sat us both in the office and made the other student appologise to me, is an appology going to stop him from him and his friends attacking me later? not at all.

In fact, a few weeks later on the bus, one kid sat behind me and kept smacking me in the back of my head with his cast, i guess he had a fucked up arm, idk, but i ended up getting off the bus at his stop to finally fight back, problem was, that was their plan, once we got out of sight of street patrol, him and his friends all ganged up on me, i ended up being pinned down by 6 people, while another one ran to their house to grab a knife, idk if he really grabbed a knife, i wasn't going to just stay there to find out, i fought away as much as i could and ended up running my ass off.

i remember in gym class, we had to play vollyball, plenty of times somebody would hit me in the back of the head with the ball directly in front of the coach, nothing was ever done, exept once when i did end up fighting back, only for me to end up getting detention.

Now, i dealt with this every day at this school, today i went to drop off my sisters backpack cuz she forgot it at home, and as soon as i walked thru the doors, for the 1st time since 2001, i stopped, and had to take a breath, i started to remember all of the things that happened to me in that school,

thankfully, my sister isn't going thru the exact same, but, she gets bullied daily to the point where she sometimes just does not want to go, she even attempted to speak with a guidance counsler one day when some girls were calling her a whore, and other names, the cousler brushed her away saying "i'm on lunch break come back later"..which she did, and the cousler again brushed her away, telling her to just write a note.

Now, just ignoring students who are attempting to get help, is the reason why shit like columbine happens, these students go to school, get treated like shit, and can't even go to the people they are told to go to for help.

I know for me, it messed up my emotions alot, and for my sister, i have to deal with her going thru the same shit, she is always depressed from it, and often times comes home angry, taking it out on me and my father, i actually had to explain to my father why she does that, and explain to him that she goes to school and has to deal with bullies, and rude teachers, and then come home and she has to be able to get it out of her system somehow.


What is your opinions on this subject? do you think cyber bullying has the same effect as being bullied in real life? what do you think should be done about it?

[PAINKILLƎR]

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[Trimss]

I guess some people have the "born to be bullied" gene

[StanBase]

There are so many rallies and hate against bullies that the bullies are technically bullied now. The real bullies are those standing up to bullying.

EDIT: I didn't read OP at first. I think cyber bullying is less personal, specially trash talking on GTA with strangers etc. Also, agree with this:

Now, just ignoring students who are attempting to get help, is the reason why shit like columbine happens, these students go to school, get treated like shit, and can't even go to the people they are told to go to for help.

[Atone]

I think cyber bullying is a lot more avoidable than bullying in person. You can always turn your PC off whenever you want to, or simply block the people who are directing the bullying. Sure, they may create new accounts in an attempt to continue, but the block function never goes away. In extreme cases, you could always report them.

I don't think there is anything anyone could ever say to me, or ever have said to me as a teenager, that would have made me take my life. The human brain is a strange thing.

I think what you did on GTA might have been a bit too much. The constant killing I have no problem with, but the verbal abuse might have been a little too much, Atone. I remember on the last GTA a friend and I kept killing this same guy over and over again for about 20 minutes until he finally left, but we only did it because he was flying around in a buzzard like a coward doing the same to everyone else. We finally shot him down and gave him a taste of his own medicine.

Yeah, what i was doin, i began to feel bad, i mean, she coulda muted us, but, it shouldn't go that far, gaming should be about fun

[SliK]

I try not to bully but many times in my life I have been on the giving and receiving end of bullying. I remember when I first got to high school and thought I was the god damn king lol, some dude four years above me pinned me to a wall and shoved an iron pipe in my face and threatened to cave my head in with it because I was a smart-ass. This was right in front of the grounds keeper and he didn't do shit. What a fucking pussy.

It was at that point I was like wow, bullying can escalate out of hand so quickly. This dude had some mental instability, but was also probably a victim of name calling his whole life and I've said something small and stupid that cracked him.

Now I think bullying is disgusting. It must be the worst feeling to wake up everyday and know you have to go to school where you will be made to fucking hate yourself so much. That really makes me sick. Nobody deserves that.

[SliK]

I'd love to beat the shit out of people who bully other people.

If my kid was getting bullied I would fuck those punks up idgaf what age they are.

[SliK]

What a fucking lowlife. People who target children/elderly/disabled are scum.

[slims]

That's horrible.

[mdemaz]

I'm gonna have to agree with Based.

The people that gave you shit probably don't even remember you anymore.

[mdemaz]

In Highschool all I wanted to do was rap.

That was/is my dream.

I remember being in year 9 and confessing my dream to everyone. I ended up spitting a verse which people filmed on their phones. I thought they were filming because they liked it.

I was wrong.

For the rest of my time at highschool, all people would do is give me shit. I would be constantly teased. People would come up to me saying things like "Yo (insert my name here), spit us a rhyme dard" "drop a phat verse for me"..
It then went onto become physical bullying because I eventually grew and extra foot and was more 'hippy' than the sporty kids.

I was basically a cooler looking shaggy without the beard.

In my last year of highschool I got beat up so bad I had to go to the hospital.

Thankfully that's all behind me now, and I've met so many amazing people.... I feel for the people who are still lonely.

[MistaVijilantee]

In Highschool all I wanted to do was rap.

That was/is my dream.

I remember being in year 9 and confessing my dream to everyone. I ended up spitting a verse which people filmed on their phones. I thought they were filming because they liked it.

I was wrong.

For the rest of my time at highschool, all people would do is give me shit. I would be constantly teased. People would come up to me saying things like "Yo (insert my name here), spit us a rhyme dard" "drop a phat verse for me"..

It then went onto become physical bullying because I eventually grew and extra foot and was more 'hippy' than the sporty kids.

I was basically a cooler looking shaggy without the beard.

In my last year of highschool I got beat up so bad I had to go to the hospital.

Thankfully that's all behind me now, and I've met so many amazing people.... I feel for the people who are still lonely.

I also rap.
I live in a small country town as well - people don't outright bully me for it because they know I'd react in an aggressive way and because I've got people behind me - but a lot of the time my music gets ignored & not taken seriously because they don't understand Hip Hop.
Sometimes I have people thinking they're hilarious coming up doing a shitty arse beat box going 'yo homie dawg give us a rap' and that's usually when I call them ignorant cunts and they shut up.
Throw hands, bruh.

[mdemaz]

Those fucking dudebro type of people really piss me off.

[slims]

I find it interesting that this thread was made a little bit before the isla Vista thing.

[mdemaz]

like oh bust a rap demaz beatbox demaz breakdance demaz

this guy says he can beat you in a rap battle etc

stfu

they actually made me believe i was a good rapper which is why most of my old shit is fucking bad