That's funny, this movie made me angry because I KNOW that it really happens LOL (in response to the person who said they get mad watching it because they didn't think stuff like this happened this badly)
It doesn't really matter if your fat, skinny, tall, short, black, white, wear glasses, have money, poor, whatever, someone who is insecure themselves, bored with life or have a rough home life is going to find something about someone they do not like and torture them. Then their friends who are so far stuck up their butt that they can't see straight wouldn't dare go against anything they say and go along with the bullying.
It's a sad situation because often times you will find that there are girls or guys that want to stick up for the person being bullied but are afraid to get involved because they don't want to be made fun of either. And teachers have so much else on their minds that often times this stuff happens right out in the open and they don't even NOTICE.
I was overweight, wore glasses and was the new kid in 7th grade. (LOL GREAT combo, eh?) There was this guy and his friend, they were both 8th graders. One day when the teacher left the room, they both decided to humiliate me and try and pick me up while I was sitting in my desk. They pretended to huff and puff and actually grabbed my arms and mooed. Now these days they would NOT have gotten away with touching me like that, but I, like most kids who are bullied did NOT want to make a big deal of it, because we know it brings on even worse torment. Well I couldn't help but cry about it when I got home and my mom, even though she said she would not, called the principle and had a meeting WITH the principle, the guidance councelor AND both of the kids! I was utterly horrified when I found out. Horrified. Well, let me tell you, it got THEM to stop..but it got their female friends to START and that was worse than the boys.
Everyday, as if she was stalking me, this one girl named Mandy would follow me around and call me "Bannana Boat" and lard ass and how she wanted to stab me with a fork to see if my tender fatty meat would fall off and all these other things. Then she would throw pebbles at me. There were teachers around but they were too busy chatting with each other. Then her friends would ask me questions like"How much do you weigh anyway? Your probably going to die and have never had sex. No offense but your pretty ugly..what parts of your body do you towel off first when you get out of the shower??"
It got to the point where I was terrified of going on combined 7th and 8th grade field trips for fear of having to sit near her and her friends or those boys on the bus.
In highschool she ended up being in my science class for a bit because she, surprise surprise, failed it the first time around. She asked me very, very politely if I would move over a seat so she and her friend could sit together. I, being stupid, scared and overly nice said sure, but the teacher said "Don't you dare" (Probably trying to get me to stand up for myself, and trying to tell me that I dont need to move just because SHE asked me to, but at the time, I was like you just sealed my fate dude.)so they had to sit at the back. Later I hear them say "Yeah, to bad the wooly mammoth couldn't move her fat ass so we could sit closer. I can't see the damn board. Guess i'm gonna fail again. Then I lucked out and she was in my gym class. She seemed to have a different target in that class though.
When I think about it, it wasn't as bad as the things that happened to the girl in this movie, but I think that I was lucky to have it just all of a sudden stop. That girl now works at a subway and is on welfare and has two kids and I hear isn't quite as bitchy as she was. The odd thing is is tht the guy who was a bully to me in 7th grade was in my jr english class and was perfectly pleasant to me. He had gotten quite heavy himself and I think that in alot of cases, age, appearance and what happens to you later in life really humbles you.
My younger sister dealt with some crap too. She was dating a guy, and they broke up, and he started dating this girl who would harass my sister in the halls, on the bus, over the internet, etc. Her ex got involved and started harassing her as well. This is sick but even the ex boyfriends drunk MOM would get on his im and message my sister and told her to stop being a bitch and stay away from her son (odd since all my sister would do is walk down the hall of the damn school, SHE was the one being harrassed. Damn clueless mom, just like the mother of the friend in this movie) One day my sister couldn't take it anymore and punched him right in the nose and they both ended up in the principles office. However, the principle let my sister off for it because he was aware of the harassment that was going on and he put a stop to it, which doesn't often happen.
After all that drama, the ex boyfriend moved away, and my sister actually made alot of friends and even joined cheerleading and became one of the captains and came out of highschool relitivly unscathed.
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team_single
17 years ago
Oh my gosh; this crap happens all the time. But I have never really experienced it to that degree first hand. Other girls that I've known have and I see girls that are treated that way all the time. I'll even admit that I've been one of the 'mean girls' at my school. But "I" have never been bullied so much and to that extreme in my entire life. I guess I'm lucky. I went to two seperate high schools. I transferred after my freshman year to a much smaller high school and wasn't exactly made fun of, but I was considered somewhat of a loner. Mainly bc I was still furious about the fact that I had to leave all my friends that I went to gradeschool/middle school with. So that year I was somewhat of an outcast, but I warmed up to it and now I'm actually very grateful that I did transfer. :)
It's unbelieveable that girls are out there planning on hurting other girls and ripping eachother to shreds over the tiniest issues. I'm thankful I've never experienced it to that level first hand, but it does happen and is very common. It sucks, but thats America for ya. Great example to put out there right?
So I ran into Su Chin & she's like "Hi, babies have fingernails."
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branenj001
17 years ago
It's really sad that sometimes it actually starts at a really young age..you'll find that even in like first grade, so and so will be friends with so and so and then a new girl will come into the class who is instantly popular and will be jealous of the friendship that the two other girls have and try and manipulate one into only playing with her and dropping the other friend. Girls are deffinatly more vicious than boys. However, boys do their fair share..I remember seeing on the news about a little boy who had three best friends and then one year they just completly shunned him, for no good reason. They would make fun of him, not let him sit with them at lunch, gang up on him and make soccer practice and games a living hell for him, etc. He was only like 10 or so and tried to commit suicide.
I think that what this movie does is a good thing, because often times parents or the kids who are bullying or kids who are just kind of there in the hallway not wanting to get involved don't really see how it is effecting the person being bullied psychologically, and they think it's "just a little teasing." and they need to "grow a thicker skin". In fact I bet you that most of you that were bullied, your bullies do not even REMEMBER what they did or said to you, but YOU remember because to you, it was a big deal, at least at the time.
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