Reply #70: Relentlessly. And yes, I can hurt them now.

[HughBeaumont]

Only problem is, you're expected to "be the grown up". "Be the better person". Felonious assault is illegal, which is the only thing protecting various portly coward bitches from being hunted and pummelled even to this day.

I just want to do one. ONE. THAT would make me feel better and get the weight off my back. It sounds petty and immature, but I really don't care. They robbed me of what was supposed to be a formative and fun time in my life and turned me into a person that has an extreme distrust and dislike of popularity, authority figures and administrators that generally wash their hands of any conflict they're supposed to be intervening in. I got horrible grades as a result and also a strained relationship with my parents that took 10 years to repair completely. The reason being is because they took the typical approach of putting ME at fault for what happened to me and to this day they tell me to "Get over it".

It's no small wonder at the 20 year reunion I went to, the asshole count was unsurprisingly low. They know deep inside no one wants anything to do with them. An asshole knows he is one and often does nothing about it or ramps it up 10 times over. Some people who knew me initially thought it would be a bad idea for me to go to that thing; like it'd be a "saloon fight" or something.

Some assholes think "bullying builds character". Yeah, by "building character", they must mean suicidal/homicidal thoughts, rage and frustration, paranoia, a disdain for learning and school, destroyed self-esteem, misanthropy, misogyny and depression.

I guess in that sense, a sub-human assplow continuing the sensible act of threatening, teasing and assaulting someone smaller than them only because they can . . . builds a whole FUCKload of "character". Sons of bitches.

The solutions counselors offer to deal with bullies are laughable ("Use your words") at best and dangerous at worst. I mean, adults, parents: do you HONESTLY think a sociopathic fuckhead who has no care in the world and thinks he's invincible (because after all, the way a school deals with a bully is to punish the asshole AND the victim) is going to all of a sudden stop bullying a kid if said victim tells bully "you're hurting my feelings"? What the hell planet are you living in? In this one, that's pretty much giving the asshole carte blanche to ramp up his assholiness and have his asshole friends join in on the fun.

Senior year, I was so infuriated at the world and paranoid of everyone, I took a box cutter and a knife to school daily. Bullying reduced me to an animal; I was ready to break legs and stab. Later on in the year, I calmed down because of the fact that it was finally over.

I think it's a crime that to this DAY schools have learned absolutely NOTHING about Columbine and have done NOTHING to prevent another one from happening. When does it stop? When someone dies from being beaten to death? What is the watermark going to be for these goddamned adults and parents to start taking greater responsibility in dealing with this problem?