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Anonymous10/25/26, 10:45No.223922674Bullying in movies
Watching movies from the 80s/90s with teenagers in it (no matter highschool or college age) bullying seems like thrope thats shown all the time.
Was bullying really this prevalent in the US?
Was it really that brutal?
Is it still like this?

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Anon10/25/26, 10:48No.223922690
This thread reeks.
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Anon10/25/26, 10:50No.223922703
No it's just a metaphor for all the actual real subtle everyday bullying people go through
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Anon10/25/26, 10:53No.223922724
It cooled off around the columbine incident. People just iced another out or were passive aggressive. Only real lowlifes got physical and then they were gone. 3 o' cloch high is a good high school movie for the right attitude to have, a fucking underrated classic.
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Anon10/25/26, 10:59No.223922763
It existed, but it was never as public as movies made it because that was how you got in trouble for it sometimes. Usually it was daily tormenting that varied on how many people were around and who they were. As far as the brutality goes it really depends on the who, what, where, when, and why. It is very nuanced.
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Anon10/25/26, 11:03No.223922800
It was like that when I was in high school...class of 1984 here.
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Anon10/25/26, 11:04No.223922815
It happened to me as well but that was only a bigger kid (as in fat) but also taller and the little faggots felt intimidated,their fears were proven right when I got into lifting and turns out I do have a good frame.It didn't help that they grew in abusive households,they weren't the "good looking,good at sports" type.
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Anon10/25/26, 11:11No.223922871
it's a metaphor for micro racisms, the biggest problem humanity is facing
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Anon10/25/26, 11:17No.223922920
>was the before times really like this
Yeah everyone bullied everyone. True.

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Anon10/25/26, 11:23No.223922967
Not just in the 80s and 90s either, but in this century as well.Its really strange, in American TV and films high school is shown to be almost semi-feral, i'd understand if it was just in shows set in inner-city Baltimore or Chicago schools filled to the brim with the basketball playing demographic but most are set with majority whites and in middle-class areas and yet hardcore bullying is depicted as common place.These characters are supposed to be 16-18, i'd understand if it was 11 years old but they're young adults at this stage. When I was in Sixth Form at that age there was nothing like that, peer relationships were fairly calm.
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Anon10/25/26, 11:24No.223922986
I was called a lot of names and pushed around. Teacher might leave and half the class would hit me in the head while the rest watched.
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Anon10/25/26, 11:25No.223923000
My Bodyguard is a great high school bullying movie if you haven't seen it.
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Anon10/25/26, 11:28No.223923021
I’ve been told by zoomers that there were never any fights at their school, all the bullying consisted of online shit talking and whatnot.
I remember in the 90’s if you wore a Marilyn Manson shirt walking to the store carloads of rich jocks could pull up on you and it was a fight.
These zoomer niggers need to realize we fought for their right to be cringe.
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Anon10/25/26, 11:36No.223923085
A lot of talk shows in the 90's like Jenny Jones had episodes about adults confronting bullies from their youth. Maybe that helped bring attention to the problem.
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Anon10/25/26, 11:55No.223923236
Yeah. What isn't usually accurate is the hierarchy of bullying. You'd think there was just bullies and victims, but in reality this group bullied that group, then that group bullied another group and that group another. There really wasn't anyone innocent. Everyone passed it on down.
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Anon10/25/26, 13:09No.223923923
As a zoomie I cant belive people would just hat other people for existing lol. There was no real bullying in my school besides that one guy that said the n word and was beat up several times because of it but he deserved it
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Anon10/25/26, 14:27No.223924752
I heard a guy just five years older than me say he used to get spat on and rocks thrown at him every day. Really glad I wasn't born a millennial.
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Anon10/25/26, 15:19No.223925436
>movie picks one imaginary day full of things going on out of 10 years of education
did you fail at school?
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Anon10/25/26, 16:37No.223926400
Yes.
It was time when men were men and vying for dominance and your place in hierarchy came naturally.
Most people actually enjoy hierarchies.
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Anon10/25/26, 16:40No.223926438
Bullying is a bogeyman the problem was always that we are packing kids into cramped, rigid social spaces without giving them a reason to like or respect one another.
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Anon10/25/26, 16:45No.223926503
god i miss bullying. i want to give a geek a wedgie so bad.
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Anon10/25/26, 16:51No.223926586
the bullies turned me into a pretzel
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Anon10/25/26, 17:07No.223926815
>What? You said CHAD'S a bully?!
>But..but he's so handsome and everyone is always so nice to him! He couldn't POSSIBLY!
Kill bullies and bully enablers. (In mimecrap.)
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Anon10/25/26, 17:26No.223927045
>Was bullying really this prevalent in the US?
Basically if you acted like a fag you got your shit called out. Nobody cared if you like cringe like DBZ or anime in general. Kamehameha in the the hallway or where obnoxious merch clothing? You're getting called a fag. Dress and act like a normal person and just so happen to be into DBZ and don't act like a sperg? That's cool, dude.>Was it really that brutal?
If things got physical you were a massive obnoxious fag who fucked up more times than he deserved or you happened to get in the crosshairs of the school psycho who came from the trashy home. The type who will guaranteed be in jail or dead within 10 years, maybe even 5. If you were in shape and knew basic fighting or even defended yourself once physically then people usually never got physical with you.>Is it still like this?
In a Bizzaro way. Niggers and browns can do whatever they want and nothing happens unless the school is predominantly white and make it clear they don't play that shit (think the Karmelo incident recently). As for mainly white schools it's not as bad and more online than physical. More subtle, passive jabs than direct, "You dress like a faggot, Mark" type shit. You got a lot of browns at your school? You BETTER learn to fight and you BETTER learn to submit a police report if they become a problem.
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Anon10/25/26, 17:34No.223927136
Shoving nerds into lockers and beating the shit out of them was very much a boomer thing and didn't exist at all after 2000.
Modern "bullying" is just Chad smirking at Stacy whenever the nerd talks in clas.
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Anon10/25/26, 18:47No.223928172
im happy for those of you that didn't experience bullying in school. Me? I probably have undiagnosed PTSD from what I experienced in the 90s.Hell must be like going to a school located on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd as a white boy.oh look I found one of my old yearbookspage 1 is similar in style to the mural under the Eiffel tower
