Bully keeping weirdos in check
2026-04-22 05:01 UTC
Replies (17)
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@ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2026-04-22 05:57
Um no
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@ctry21@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-22 17:46
"Bullying works" is one of those really nasty, regressive takes that always shocks me when it appears in otherwise progressive spaces
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@fartographer@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 12:49
Buzz (Devin Ratray) was an asshole in the movie, accused of rape in real life, and convicted of domestic assault in real life. I guess OOP could have included a picture of Tom Wilson (Biff Tannen), an arguably good person IRL, but time travel proved that he's a legacy asshole at every stage of his life. Which is what really happens when you praise bullies. You end up with the bully billionaire presidents that all of these movies tried to warn you about.
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@fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2026-04-22 09:54
What? No. Why?
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@ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2026-04-22 13:01
What morons upvoted this idiocy?
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@BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-22 15:06
Ahh yes, the psychological and physical abuse of a bully was a good thing in the 90s. Look at me, I'm a well adjusted individual. Just fine, no creeping sociopathic thoughts regularly, no violent ideation on my former bullies at all. Nope, perfectly normal and made to fit a mold I cannot fit in for the good of society.
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@ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 05:42
 And something tells me that she was the sort worth fighting for.
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@chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 14:45
I'm sorry, am I supposed to read this as putting someone on blast for being a giant fucking asshole? Cause there's not really anything in this post to suggest that. This is fucked, my dude. Bullies take their insecurities out on their peers, there's no benefit to such anti-social behavior. The fuck?
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@I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 17:49
The personalities bullies targeted in the 90s are not the personalities causing the issues with modern day society.
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@Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 11:29
The bullies of the 90s became the techbros and aibros of today. They can't code, but wanted to be part of the tech industry once they saw how much money there was, so they got MBAs and became the weirdo's bosses.
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@idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 13:34
This is going to sound wild at first, but hear me out. There’s a huge difference between peer pressure and targeted bullying. They may look similar in a snapshot, but they should not be conflated. The former _can_ have positive effects, but often has negative ones and bullying always has negative consequences. The biggest difference is that peer pressure focuses on something you can change, and stops when you do (obviously that change can be good or bad, and that’s why it’s not uniformly better than bullying). Positive peer pressure includes things like people expressing disgust when someone doesn’t wash their hands after using the bathroom or the theater audience booing when someone’s phone rings during a stage play. Most examples people think about are negative, but there are a huge number of things that young children learn mostly through peer pressure (things like how to treat friends, basic hygiene, cultural norms, etc.). I suspect we think about peer pressure as negative mostly because the positive examples don’t cause you any real internal conflict, so you make the change and don’t think about it further.
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@_lilith@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 02:09
nah
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@JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-22 12:05
Yay for concentration camps ... Or something.
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@digger@lemmy.ca 2026-04-22 10:45
This is the real reason for the rise in autism. /s
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@Fedizen@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 13:00
"we should be mean to assholes" Is not bullying. Its tit for tat. Also most the current lead tech bros were in college or working in the 90s.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-04-22 10:59
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@CannonFodder@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 10:56
There's a smidge of truth in this for better or worse. Kids learned to fit in and not stand out unless they really had the confidence to pull it off. Misfits found groups to fit in by necessity for protection. Sure we repressed lots of stuff, but we learned to cope in a fucked up world better than kids these days seem to.