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[–]LyingSpirit472 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Even beyond that, it also needs to be said if it's the students voting, the odds "the teachers demanded the kids vote for this stunning and brave trans kween as Homecoming Queen" are equal to or even worse than the odds "the students are bullying the kid and they voted for the person as a cruel prank to play on them." So, there is that.

[–]makesyoudownvote 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I don't know. Gen-Z really do be like that sometimes.

I doubt it's bullying. Gen-Z is all about virtue signaling and posturing for woke points.

Bullying these days is often of people who don't fit the woke narrative. Troons and PoCs are at the top of the pecking order and basically get to live like kings.

At least that's what it's like here in California. Maybe the less woke states are a bit different.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Even with Gen-Z being about virtue signalling/posturing and crybullies taking hold, there's still some semblance of the pecking order in schools and people who are absolutely the most annoying bastard possible will get bullied.

Hell, as said in a different post, pranks like this claim are perfect in the Gen-Z era of "bully the outcast loser...but don't do anything that will make the kid shoot up the school over it" because it has plausible deniability.

[–]makesyoudownvote 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I agree, but 99% chance that kid is the slightly conservative kid that looks like Kyle Rittenhouse these days, not the troon freak.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I agree the slightly conservative kid who looks like Kyle Rittenhouse is likely the one bullied, but the troon freak is also likely to be a target for other things independent of their identity. If it's not their identity, it's their demanding special treatment at every single turn. If not that, it's the time the troon tried forcing the QB to leave the cheerleader for them and tried to rally the school to force him to and say 'real men suck girldick', and so on, and so forth.

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

I think kids today get the feeling like they are a horrible person if they do anything against that person. It's sort of like how kids born in the 90s feel about people with physical disabilities.

Does the bullying still happen? Sure.

But on a scale large enough that they get elected homecoming queen as a joke, hell no. They elected this person homecoming queen so they can all feel good about themselves and feel progressive.

By the way we did a similar thing at my school back in the early 2000s. Not with a Loo Loo Train, but we one year elected a gay guy homecoming "queen". It wasn't bullying at all. We also elected a really nerdy guy as homecoming king a year later who had just had major brain surgery and was at the time partially paralyzed. Admittedly the second guy, despite being nerdy wasn't annoying at all, he was just the really smart type. He looked kinda like John Oliver and acted like Egon. Great kid.

The gay guy was less of a great kid. He was actually kinda an asshole, but because we were a progressive school and this was during the height of queer eye, he was basically excused from everything. Grope girls in public, oh it's ok he's gay. Grope a guy in public, what are you homophobic? Wear daisy dukes, with a jean vest and pink cowboy boots to school, well the dress code about how high shorts can be technically only applies to girls and he's expressing himself.

Fortunately he grew up a lot after high school. I ran into him in West Hollywood a few years ago and despite the fact that gay and flamboyant is still much of his personality, it's way more toned down and human if that makes sense.

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

I think kids today get the feeling like they are a horrible person if they do anything against that person. It's sort of like how kids born in the 90s feel about people with physical disabilities.

Does the bullying still happen? Sure.

Fair points, but this one explains why a huge amount of schoolwide bullying can happen: By and large schoolwide bullying happens less for a whole group of evil people and more "one incredible piece of shit who's popular enough or badass enough to take power in the schoolyard or lunchroom starts the bullying, and the rest of the school is 'either we bully this person too or we're next' and fall in line through fear, which causes this to happen.

Your example does show the other, unmentioned, third option: "Most kids in school nowadays don't give a shit about homecoming king/queen or prom king/queen, and the girls who do care about the result tend to be the beauty pageant girls who are kind of insufferable pre-Karens (and often have an outright Karen as a mom who's usually pulling the strings), to the point you just want to vote for someone goofy to win the crown just to take them down a peg."

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

Well said!

Honestly I have nothing to add, you summed it up perfectly here.

I just wanted to respond because I felt like you deserved it.