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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok so the whole "the other kids are just jealous" thing is, I think, disengenious.

Sometimes kids just suck. They make fun of other kids for anything. They aren't necessarily jealous. They might be uncomfortable. They might be vindictive at the time. They might basically be playing "spot the difference" (i.e. that kid dances, my friend doesn't dance, look that's different) so they make fun of one side of that equation.

In this case, I feel like the kids probably were not jealous. I feel like they were just idiot kids. Same end result but I don't know, it seems unhelpful to bullying victims to just tell them that everyone is jealous of them, sadly that's not usually the case.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sure, who knows. I just assumed that some boys were very jealous of the rockstar with a whole group of girls ๐Ÿ˜ But yeah, kids can also be just idiots. We weren't there.

And sure it's not usually the case, and i wouldn't tell that to any bullied kid. It just screamed jealousy in this particular case.