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The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
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member since 5.4.03
denver, co
@Reemawi
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guys, i think i can take generation-y's bullies
a gen-xer's take
5.17.12
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A friend gave me something to think about recently when she asked: “Are kids just wimps these days, or is society just that much crueler now?”
We were talking about bullying and how kids these days just don't deal with adversity the same way we did, particularly when it comes to bullying.
Look at all the teen suicides making the news, sometimes by kids still in the single-digit age bracket, all because of bullying. It's disturbing.
As Gen-Xers, we believed in cliques, a certain social order within the microcosms of our schools we never argued with. We went home angry at the unfairness and took it out on our parents. Or our diaries, in cursive, and suffered major hand cramps as a result.
There was no Twitter to validate our feelings back then, or celebrities telling us it gets better. We just had adults with bad hair telling us to simply deal with it, and not necessarily because it was gonna get better, but because “what else are you go...
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