Posted on 03/31/2012 11:42:53 AM PDT by jimbo123
Childhood is safer than ever before, but today's parents need to worry about something. Nick Gillespie on why busybodies and bureaucrats have zeroed in on bullying.
"When I was younger," a remarkably self-assured, soft-spoken 15-year-old kid named Aaron tells the camera, "I suffered from bullying because of my lips—as you can see, they're kind of unusually large. So I would kind of get [called] 'Fish Lips'—things like that a lot—and my glasses too, I got those at an early age. That contributed. And the fact that my last name is Cheese didn't really help with the matter either. I would get [called] 'Cheeseburger,' 'Cheese Guy'—things like that, that weren't really very flattering. Just kind of making fun of my name—I'm a pretty sensitive kid, so I would have to fight back the tears when I was being called names."
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OUTed! Long time Romney supporter! Let your co-wives dispute THAT!
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The animals don't think so.
My experience was that if you kept a sense of honor and refused to allow people to insult you, it really didn’t matter if you won or lost the fights. What bullies don’t respect, and like to beat up on, are people who cringe and allow themselves to be insulted.
I was the smallest kid in my class all through school. I remember someone saying, puzzled but kind of admiringly, “Why do you play football, when you always end up on the bottom of the pile?” I don’t remember what I replied. Probably, “That’s life,” or something of the sort.
Well, my dogs think I’m great too. What do they know.
I almost think that several wife thing might not be to bad a deal. That way he can’t focus all his weirdness on you. Right now I wish my husband had several wives and he was living with one of them. I think I’m just about the only one that hates weekends. Monday is my favorite day of the week.
Knowing humblegunner, he’d make us click through.
There is one society where a woman has multiple husbands, would that be better?
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