Current Events > Reading It, it really seems like bullies in the 60s were way worse than

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modern day bullies. :u Like, those bullies would beat up the modern day bullies easily. No wonder the baby boomers are all so messed up, considering they had to put up with all that in school.
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Ah the good ol' days, when crying about bullies got you the ol' backhand.
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I went to boarding school. The bullying got progressively less severe as I went through the ranks.

My first year (age 11), they would still do "summonings", where you'd get summoned to a seniors room and be faced by 6 of them with hockey sticks and they'd beat you until you sobbed.

Prior to that they had just recently ruled out "the gauntlet", where you'd have to run over pintacs barefoot down a narror corridor while seniors wailed on you from either side.

From everything I've heard, this trend continued over the years. The bullies in the 60s and 70s did things I shan't even type out here.

Much of this was actually encouraged by teachers because it "built character".

By the time I got to my final year, they had figured out that bullying had potential mental side effects and you couldn't so much as look sternly at a junior without a teacher losing their marbles at you. This resulted in what we saw as a very spoiled bratty generation of juniors, but overall I think it was a very good thing. Maybe we were just jealous because when we were their age we lived in mortal fear of senior students.
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I don't think the bullies in the 60s were that bad, it's just that the ones in IT are corrupted by...IT
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pinky0926 posted...

I went to boarding school. The bullying got progressively less severe as I went through the ranks.

My first year (age 11), they would still do "summonings", where you'd get summoned to a seniors room and be faced by 6 of them with hockey sticks and they'd beat you until you sobbed.

Prior to that they had just recently ruled out "the gauntlet", where you'd have to run over pintacs barefoot down a narror corridor while seniors wailed on you from either side.

From everything I've heard, this trend continued over the years. The bullies in the 60s and 70s did things I shan't even type out here.

Much of this was actually encouraged by teachers because it "built character".

By the time I got to my final year, they had figured out that bullying had potential mental side effects and you couldn't so much as look sternly at a junior without a teacher losing their marbles at you. This resulted in what we saw as a very spoiled bratty generation of juniors, but overall I think it was a very good thing. Maybe we were just jealous because when we were their age we lived in mortal fear of senior students.

were there f4gs still? (look it up mods, it's a uk term about bullying in boarding school)
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My dad said he used to get bullied by Lynyrd Skynyrd back in the 60's. I don't know how much of that is an exaggeration, but he went to the same high school as them in Jacksonville, Florida at the same time, so I guess it's possible
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My dad grew up in that era and I think it depends where you lived. Around here at least, there wasn't a lot of physical bullying like that. Kids got beat up and fought, but no one was getting continuously beaten up by one guy or any of the movie/book stereotypical things. Assault was still assault even back then.
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chollima posted...

were there f*** still? (look it up mods, it's a uk term about bullying in boarding school)

Yeah, but it didn't really get called that much anymore except by the really ultra posh kids, or just ironically.

Most of the things they made you do were just plain vindictive. To give you an example, our boarding house had 3 floors, and on each floor there were 2 "kitchens', which was basically just a small hole in the wall with a sink and toaster/fridge setup. We got free bread every day, so one of the things people used to eat lots of was buttered toast.

A common thing they'd make you do is get you to make them some toast, but they'd insist it be piping hot by the time you deliver it to them. Once when I was late for signing in at breakfast, I was told to make a piece of toast from every kitchen in the boarding house, but all of them had to be delivered at the same time, piping hot. This meant sprinting up and down 3 stories (6 flights of stairs) to make sure all the toasters were going at the same time. I couldn't use the microwave because it would have made them soggy.

Shit like that. You wouldn't complain because that's what a "p***y" would do.
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I read this book written by Jan Guillou a few years back. It's a pretty good story about bullying on a Swedish private school in the 50s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_(novel)
I don't know if there is an english version though.. pretty good read.
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M_Live posted...

pinky0926 posted...

My first year (age 11), they would still do "summonings", where you'd get summoned to a seniors room and be faced by 6 of them with hockey sticks and they'd beat you until you sobbed.

The fuck that sounds brutal

For what it's worth, I think guys had it way easier than girls. For the most part, the boys houses just did physically painful, intimidating shit that was sort of humiliating but in a "funny" way. It was like being in the army sort of.

But the girls houses...holy shit. They took things to a dark place. They wouldn't beat the juniors up or anything. Instead they'd instruct all the other girls in the year to ignore that girl for a week, or demand her to confess her feelings to the ugly kid in class, or tell the boy she likes that she peed herself in bed. All sorts of really cruel shit.
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i used to work in a boarding school; kids were off their heads
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My problem with bullying in recent years is that it's acknowledged as a problem but there's really no way to combat it. I was bullied by one guy elementary school and again in high school. It started when all this anti-bullying sentiment was gaining traction. We were encouraged to speak out to teachers and seek help, only for nothing to be done or to even be punished for it.

I was bullied for months in the 5th grade, leading up to this piece of shit full on punching me in the back of the head while we were taking a test. I told the teacher, the principal, and guidance counselor about it and how long the bullying had been going on for. I ended up getting the same three day suspension he did and after it was over, nothing changed, not to mention that I was chided for not coming to them sooner.

Not only that, when I went back to school, the kid's mom showed up while I was waiting for the bus home and literally started pushing me around because I got her son suspended. When I told the principal about that, he said "just come to me if it happens again."

We ended up going to different middle schools but met back up at the same high school. First day of school freshman year, he threw a book at me. I went to my principal and guidance counselor, told them about our history and asked not to have any classes with him because there would be a huge problem. I was denied by both and told to let things play out because surely "we wouldn't both be as immature as back then."

Naturally, shit got worse over the next couple of months. My stepdad had died the summer before high school and my mom was having a really tough time dealing with that, on top of a bunch of shit with how my siblings (his biological children) were acting. That led me to keeping all my problems to myself because I was worried one more thing would lead to my mom having a breakdown. So I just dealt with his shit.

One day after PE, we were changing in the locker room and he took my shirt and threw it in the toilet. I had it with him and realized that I was bigger and almost definitely stronger. So I pushed him down, got on top of him, and gave him a very specific threat of what would happen to him if he ever messed with me again.

Last period of the day, the resource officer came into my class and took me to her office. She said someone had complained that I assaulted another student in the locker room. I told her exactly what happened, the whole history, and she was actually super cool about it because she could have easily filed charges for what I did. She said she knew I wasn't actually going to do what I said so she wasn't going to make it a bigger deal than it was, but she did confer with my principal and I was suspended for a week then placed in an alternative education school for a month. Nothing happened to him for any of his instances of bullying that led to that.

When I got back, all of our classes were changed around so that we would have no classes together and minimize our interaction in the halls and cafeteria and I didn't have any problems with him after that, although one of my friends did glass him senior year, but our history really didn't have anything to do with that. Dude was just a wanton dickhead.

But it was crazy. It took all that bullshit for someone to finally help me. I think back on that and wish it would've been like before because the idea that I was supposed to say something and get help made it worse. It was straight up bullshit meant to placate parents and faculty and all it did was make things worse. Back in the 60s, I would've been in hell just being bullied. Back in the late 90s and early 00s, I was in hell, ignored, and punished for being bullied.
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DanielCormier posted...


Lately I've been hearing the case in America is they now have zero tolerance policies, which basically means everyone gets fucked by the banhammer regardlesss of actual guilt. Zero tolerance, zero thought.
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Man I'm glad I was never bullied like some of the stories ITT. I'd probably be in prison right now lol
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Remember that story about Mitt Romney holding a kid down and cutting his hair?
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M_Live posted...

pinky0926 posted...

My first year (age 11), they would still do "summonings", where you'd get summoned to a seniors room and be faced by 6 of them with hockey sticks and they'd beat you until you sobbed.

The fuck that sounds brutal

How were there not school shootings/stabbings? No way i'd have tolerated that shit.
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