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>>69299 >If your primary defense is running to teacher, then yeah, people are going to give you shit because you are an easy and low-risk target. Pretty much everyone can learn to fight, and everyone can get stronger. Getting suspended or something for fighting is worth it when it makes your life easier. Fight someone once or eat their shit for years is sometimes the only choice they give you. And no offense or anything, but you sound like you're still in highschool. Like you've had too years of it so far or something. Especially since it sounds like you're describing yourself. I can at least see how you can come to that conclusion. I am describing myself in part, but I am long out of high school. I speak from experience in a lot of situations when it comes to bullying. Of course no one wants to run to a teacher, and I used that to my advantage later on. Eventually I did fight back, most of the bullies were relative pushovers in the end, easily slammed into a locker or their arm twisted. It eventually got me the label of the "unstable" kid that was most likely to shoot up the school or some shit. I embraced that label in some ways. As I got later into high school I and most people around me mellowed out considerably. Fighting back didn't made me feel tough, it made me feel like I was losing control. Even back then I didn't like it but looking back it feels even worse, especially as I look at internet discourse. I see myself in a lot of the entirely bitter/cynical/hateful political ideas espoused. I knew it all at one time, even if I what I knew changed every week. I was a communist and then I was Randroid after reading the Fountainhead. I knew everything about sexuality and relationships. Even the little "lol gays and trans are just mental disorders that can be fixed easily herpyderp" is something I thought at one time, which is why you seemed so high schooly. Blacks were just lazy and wanted to enslave whites. One kid (who was more legit unstable because he had it worse than me throughout school) was basically a neo-nazi (though not an open one) and I even talked to him about the shit occasionally. I grew out of it partially with the help of marijuana, music, and meditation. I was emotionally disconnected for a while but those helped me get back in touch with shit and I lost most of my delusions. Maybe it was just growing up that did it as well, but I was able to talk to people, to laugh with people, to not see people as universally horrible shitheads that needed my truth and wisdom. Even as I moved into different environments like college and work, it all became a ballza bit easier, partially because I stopped caring so much about things that didn't directly affect me and I stopped being so paranoid. I also started to do things like cry at sad parts of movies and find things cute and adorable. When I see someone doing something that I don't understand, I don't immediately come up with some "solution" in my head and then hate them for not adhering to my understanding. I don't think I'm oversensitive but if I am I wouldn't trade it for the world, because forcibly cutting yourself off from feeling anything as a survival strategy fucking sucks and doesn't make for better people, because many never really grow out of it. >They are trying to make themselves feel special because there's nothing special about them. Rather than acknowledge that they just have problems (which can be fixed), instead they say that the world is fucked up and they're fine. Combine that with a webmd degree in self-diagnosis, and you've got yourself a twit/tumblr. I won't argue that, though I would also say there are a whole lot of (mostly young) people who just think they know a whole lot more than they do, it's nothing new. I'm the only person I know in my life who has actually met someone who considered themselves "genderqueer" and it really wasn't that big of a fucking deal. They weren't shitting their pants whenever someone didn't use a certain pronoun. The shit mostly exists solely on the internet. In any case, it's certainly not a result of coddling, generally. If someone tells you you're an entire life that you're a special snowflake you probably don't have to invent genders to feel special. If anything it's the kind of guys who feel entitled to women that is the more direct result of "everyone gets a trophy" culture.
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