They can dish it out but can't take it

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[–]LtGreenCo 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

When the fuck did parents stop teaching "sticks and stones"? We've got this whole generation of people now who think uttering certain words is on par with shit like genocide and it's fucking bananas. It seems within a single generation, we've gone from revering freedom of speech as a core principle vital to human prosperity, to admonishing it as a dangerous vice with the potential to inflict a measure of equivalence to physical violence. As if suddenly we've learned nothing from history.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

They stopped teaching “sticks and stones” when they cracked down on bullying in school and the retards went zero-tolerance and included childish teasing as an offence as serious a regular asskicking.

People forget that there are important lessons to be learnt from being involved in teasing and name calling including learning the limits. Same way they banned roughhousing for boys on the playground and wondered why there’s a generation of low-T adult children who think they’re going to marry their anime wifu.

Children’s behaviours haven’t just appeared out of no where, they developed to teach children about the world and prepare them for it. Helicopter parents and my retard colleagues have short circuited that and that’s why we are seeing the shit we are seeing with grown men claiming that just hearing a bad word is genocide.

[–]Haylstorm 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

As bad as it sounds some forms of bullying are needed to make kids comply with social norms.

Like no one is going to want to be around you if you stink, but they'll call it bullying the person by isolating them. Not saying it's perfect but it does teach people how to behave and act if they want to be accepted by society. Randoms aren't going to care if someone is autistic and showers make them have a meltdown, they're not going to want to be around the person that smells worse than rotting rubbish. Better to learn that early and fix it.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I knew someone that always smelled like they had rolled around in cat piss. To the point it bothered everyone around her. Naturally this situation only came about because everyone, myself included, was too much of a pussy to just say "you smell like cat piss you need to take a bath" lest we get accused of le bullying.

So instead everyone said nothing and left this clearly mentally ill person wondering why nobody wanted to talk to her. Healthy.

[–]Haylstorm 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty much. Like it's an awkward conversation but if everyone has been made to play nice before how do they know the norms? Which is worse for them in the long run. Especially when there seems to be this...entitlement? around everyone needing to be your friend. Frankly it kind of seems worse because everyone is going to talk about Stinky Sara being so stinky but not to her.

You basically need some small child to go around pointing it out because adults are expected to have filters lol.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People forget that there are important lessons to be learnt from being involved in teasing and name calling including learning the limits.

Not only that, but people also forget that a big part of bonding and friendship is knowing the limits of teasing or name calling a friend, and an all important "yeah, I can say this about you because you know I love you we're like family, and I don't really mean this shit- but if anyone else says this shit, I'll be right there alongside you to take that person on." It's similar to the roughhousing nature of 'there's the times you're fighting out of hate and the 'sometimes brothers gotta hug, sometimes brothers gotta fight' times."