Yep.

Believe you me I get the whole social status dealio when it comes to women. Getting physically beat down on a regular basis still has to be worse IMO. THis still comes down to parenting either way. Boundaries, a healthy self-esteem and even learning how to deal with social dynamics are all things they can learn from parents who are actually active in their life.

Please describe 'real bullying'.

I'm not going to look up the data, but you seriously think that the amount of teenage pregnancy and STD's and such was MORE back than than it is now? Since we're just talking opinions here, I have to respectfully disagree. yes, things were not talked about and pushed under the rug, but I'd say in an era of permissiveness and acceptance, it just stands to reason that this type of thing is much more prevalent now than back in the 50's.

Just my opinion.

This :thumb:

Emotional abuse has far greater impact on human psyche than physical, especially at a young age when their coping mechanisms are not established.

I'm young and that sounds great.

Once again establishing boundaries is a job the P's should have been working on. I am not saying it's not bullying, I just believe that adding the physical component make it worse. To say emotional abuse is far greater is ridiculous. It's not like physical abuse comes without the emotional bullying component. To imply that is ridiculous.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/0...orded-History#

Who knows how accurate it is, but I don't have a hard time believing it.

Acceptance and permissiveness has lead to education and awareness.

That is actually a very peculiar statistic. It kind of sounds like one of those deals where you have to drill down into the data to reveal what is really happening. Maybe the overall pregnancy rate is down due to the prevalence of government-sponsored birth control or something.

FAX

Anyone else remember the days when there were real bullies?

You'd start walking home and some guy 2x your size would just ****ing beat the $#it out of you?

Now THAT sucked...

Now days the bullies do your math homework for you, do it wrong on purpose. The humanity....

It was nothing like medieval times, though, Mr. Rausch.

Back then, you could be innocently purchasing a chicken from the local chicken vendor and the next thing you know a gang of thugs in green, pointy hats have you spread eagle on a Spanish Donkey with a hot iron shoved up your ass.

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Yet, somehow, you made it through...

It's about 80% mental.

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And in another thread...

You love not knowing things before you talk about them.

LMAO




And I thought I had you there...

Point taken. But sometimes I just want to offer a general opinion. And yeah, I'm getting tired of arguing. I admit that it's not the smartest time for me to be posting.

Sorry.

I have read the article. I have looked at the charts. I have studied the statistics. I have come to a conclusion. Given that I had a vasectomy done after my last kid was born, I should be out having sex with chubby, poor, uneducated, Republican teen girls. For the good of the country. Go ahead and line them up. For America.