What the hell?! There is so much that is wrong and moronic and wrong with that, I can't even-- Christ. I'm sorry you had to put up with such an avalanche of bullshit just for trying to raise an intelligent debate about something that so clearly needs to be discussed openly and critically. That's just bloody horrible.
And I know exactly what you mean about that feeling of total frustration at never having been allowed to fight back and counter the bullshit that was being thrown at you. I've never had as bad an experience as that, but I've come away with the exact same feeling with most of my dealings with the higher-ups at my workplace and their failure to give a shit about bullying. I find myself doing the same thing as you, going over months-old meetings in my head, mapping out all the things I wished I'd said and getting so angry and upset that I was never able to say them. Like I said, nowhere near as bad as what you had to put up with - but I get that feeling, I really do.
Seriously, and that was just off the top of my head. I didn't even mention the ' noble tradition' of making the juniors paint each other, blindfolded, in the middle of the night, outside, at the end of October (when it's very cold, and they were just in t-shirts and jeans, and they had to stay out there for almost an hour), or the 'noble tradition' of seniors taking photos with the blindfolded juniors without them knowing they're having their photos taken (which made me vastly uncomfortable, but they told me I had to to do or else I wasn't being a good sister), or the classist idiot who told me (because at one point I mentioned that the costs of this stupid fucking tradition interfered with people being able to participate) that if I didn't see myself being very successful after I graduated, I should have gone to community college instead, or a dozen other idiotic things.
Ugh. This feeling is one of the worst feelings in the world.
Fucking christ. I cannot comprehend certain people. I don't see how the fuck that 'tradition' adds anything important to your school or the studnents - it seems to just be some stupid excuse for people to be bullied! And be allowed to do it!
And their over-defensiveness about it when you called them on it and lack of an actual response to any of the things you said just proves that it's pointless and they know that, or someone does, but they want to keep it going for absolutely no reason.
Besides which, once you'd spoken out about how uncomfortable it made you feel, what right did they have to burn you for your own opinion? That should have been an eye-opener to them. They have no right to make you feel like that, no one does! They are worthless and if they aren't going to listen to reason, let them keep going like mindless animals that they are. But how dare they make you feel like that.
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And I know exactly what you mean about that feeling of total frustration at never having been allowed to fight back and counter the bullshit that was being thrown at you. I've never had as bad an experience as that, but I've come away with the exact same feeling with most of my dealings with the higher-ups at my workplace and their failure to give a shit about bullying. I find myself doing the same thing as you, going over months-old meetings in my head, mapping out all the things I wished I'd said and getting so angry and upset that I was never able to say them. Like I said, nowhere near as bad as what you had to put up with - but I get that feeling, I really do.
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Ugh. This feeling is one of the worst feelings in the world.
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And their over-defensiveness about it when you called them on it and lack of an actual response to any of the things you said just proves that it's pointless and they know that, or someone does, but they want to keep it going for absolutely no reason.
Besides which, once you'd spoken out about how uncomfortable it made you feel, what right did they have to burn you for your own opinion? That should have been an eye-opener to them. They have no right to make you feel like that, no one does! They are worthless and if they aren't going to listen to reason, let them keep going like mindless animals that they are. But how dare they make you feel like that.
*Hug*
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