What are some of the dumbest reasons you have been bullied for. There are no good reasons to be bullied, but I know there are some pretty ridiculous reasons that just seem so out there, like just the mere fact someone has glasses. Like what the heck. So I just wondered.

[Artchic528]

I was bullied all my life for one reason or another. I think any reason for bullying is incredibly stupid and utterly ridiculous.

I reserve the utmost pity for those who have bullied me over the years and only for them. They are usually sad inside and want to garner self confidence by making others look and feel worse than they do.

But back to the main topic at hand, I really have no clue why I'm always ganged up on or bullied....I guess people have that mob mentality. Why, I was once bullied so bad I'm still dealing with the psychological and emotional scars to this day.

Way back when I was struggling with coming to terms with my bisexuality, and very much in pain by it, repulsed by it, a girl in my class started this horrible rumor that my female friends and I (me also being a female), were intimately involved with one another. For a good solid week I had to deal with what seemed like every student sniggering about it when I walked down the hall.

Finally, my good friends and I had had enough and went to the school principal, there the classmate who started the rumor was suspended from school, but not without coming back with a whole new story to tell. She was bemoaning the abusive way her father had supposedly held her hand over a piping hot stove burner as punishment.

Don't know if that was necessarily true or not, but I can say for sure that she was very much desperate to be the center of attention, and didn't care at what cost it may have to those she used to garner that attention. Maybe she was being abused at home, and was coping in the only way she knew how.

Regardless, I have long stopped feeling hatred and animosity towards her, despite the horrible nagging feelings that I'm being laughed at for something or other by those around me while in public. I'm aware enough to know I'm probably imagining things, and keep having to tell myself to not fall for the paranoia, that it's all in my head. It's a constant struggle, and sometimes it gets the better of me. Who knows, maybe that classmate of mine just made my already existing problems of paranoia bubble to the surface. Maybe she did me an acutal favor.

In hind sight, now I'm feeling rather smug. She actually may have helped, rather than hindered. I could dance right now with that feeling swelling deep inside of me. I think I'm also done with this post. Ta ta.

[Thunder Bow]

Bullying is all about control and getting attention. Bullies control one through name calling and personal insults. They feel they are in control of the situation, and getting much needed attention.

[ManOfConstantSorrow]

At school for not being a Tottenham hotspur supporter - dumb? Too right, who would support those sad, sorry losers when the Arsenal is just down the road.

I don't think I was ever really bullied although I was threatened in school by people who didn't like long hair. Anyway I can't think of any reasons to bully or intimidate that aren't bad.

Echoing the sentiments of others here bullying=bad. The dumbest thing I've been bullied over was a perfume I wore. A particular girl didn't like vanilla so she persisted to tell me I stank every time she saw me despite taking 3 showers a day. Anyway I kept wearing the perfume and saw her outside school she was panhandling for drugs. We were in 8th grade. *shrugs*

Originally Posted by KaraD

Echoing the sentiments of others here bullying=bad. The dumbest thing I've been bullied over was a perfume I wore. A particular girl didn't like vanilla so she persisted to tell me I stank every time she saw me despite taking 3 showers a day. Anyway I kept wearing the perfume and saw her outside school she was panhandling for drugs. We were in 8th grade. *shrugs*

That is dumb and actually last year a girl I used to hang out with at my college did the same thing. Constantly said I had a smelly room even after just cleaning it so I think it was more of the smell of the air freshners she didn't like so she tried to make me feel like crap about it. She isn't here anymore. Sorry you had to deal with that.

[divine1966]

I have never been bullied but I teach high school so clearly I am in a midst of it. I have zero tolerance for bullying but sometimes it is just not that simple.

One scenario: girl claims others avoid her, turns out she spreads nasty rumors about others so they avoid her. Boy claims to be bullied when it turns out he is the one who does the bullying! Girl/boy suffers from (insert mental health issue) and thinks everyone is laughing at her Etc etc when really no one does!

We have zero tolerance and our school is very small so it is hard to be blatantly openly a bully and us not to find out but some bullying is subtle. Or some is perceived etc

Teenagers can be so cruel

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[shortandcute]

In junior high, I got bullied for not having a boyfriend yet! At 12!

[divine1966]

Originally Posted by shortandcute

In junior high, I got bullied for not having a boyfriend yet! At 12!

Yup I know it is crazy!!! But kids date so early now it is nuts!

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I got bullied for having red hair. Also for having curly hair. And then for having red, curly hair. Also for having freckles. *sigh* The meanest bullying was for being tall and "fat" (though in high school, I was big but I was solid and lean, not fat. I wish I were that "fat" now!)

I get bullied once in a while as an adult, and it's 99.9% by other women. I have some ideas as to why, but I'm not totally sure.

Originally Posted by misskeena

I got bullied for having red hair. Also for having curly hair. And then for having red, curly hair. Also for having freckles. *sigh* The meanest bullying was for being tall and "fat" (though in high school, I was big but I was solid and lean, not fat. I wish I were that "fat" now!)

I get bullied once in a while as an adult, and it's 99.9% by other women. I have some ideas as to why, but I'm not totally sure.

I was called fat a lot too when i wasnt women try to bully me from time to time as well. Why do you think they do it to you?

[shezbut]

There isn't ever a good reason for bullying. I dealt with bullying throughout my "childhood" and teen years. It was absolutely horrible and emotionally scarring.

I have long, very curly hair & when I was in school, straight hair was very "in". Back then, there wasn't straightening irons or other hair products to help. I stuck out like a sore thumb & HATED it! Adding cruelty, to make me even more miserable, they called me E.T. eyes. I guess because my eyes are big? And they said that they're far apart too. Kids can be SOOOO mean ~ it's a cruel reality & there isn't anything funny about it.

[divine1966]

I just remember something awful again (it comes to me once in awhile) that I bullied a summer cottage neighbor. He was a very heavy kid and so were his mom and dad. I called him. "Fattie" or something like that. I don't recall details as I was young not even a teenager. Maybe 11 or 12.

am a vey sensitive person and it was so not like me and to this day feel guilty and don't understand why I did it. I even thought that he perhaps I liked him and that's why I did it? Or because I grew up with a bully father I wanted to feel better about myself? No clue. Weird thing I am petite and was very tiny then, he was tall plus a bit older etc if that boy as much as pushed me I would be done.

He asked me to stop (i remember that s
Moment) and I did stop but still can't forget it



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[healingme4me]

Dumbest reason, because my father was a teacher.

How'd I handle it? After this 8th grade boy spent library study hall, going on and on, as a 7th grader, bell rang, grabbed him by the hair, punched him and just about flung him down a staircase, when a teacher broke it up.
His female friends weren't happy after that, but what were they going to do, if I did all that?

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I'm not sure if people obviously trying to push my lash out button is bullying? but it always starts with remarks about my mental health

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[lovethesun]

I was bullied for having curly hair. I was a 10 year old girl and the bully was a 15 year old boy. He called me "bush" because of my curly hair. He once had all the other boys on the bus chanting "bush" at me. The other pigs this kid was friends with even threatened sexual assault because of my curly hair. I started sitting right behind the bus driver hoping she would hear all this and do something......she did nothing, in fact, she'd sit there with a smile on her face while it was going on. It was a horrifying experience. My mom finally went outside and confronted the kid telling him she was going to beat the crud out of him if he didn't stop. The only thing that eventually got this kid to stop was his older brother yelled at him to shut up in front of all the other people on the bus. This kid and his friends were cowards for picking on a girl. Don't know where they are today, but I hope Karma caught up to them somehow. Nowadays this kid and his friends could be prosecuted as criminals for that kind of behavior. I wish my parents had called the police back then. At least bullying is treated more seriously now. If some kid and his friends ever terrorized my daughters like that, I'd have them in cuffs!

[shortandcute]

When I was a kid, bullying was treated liKe it was just a misunderstanding to be worked out. It was like, "Oh, just kiss and make up." Like, "They just beat the crap out of me and I'm supposed to apologize to them for letting them do it!!>?!?!?!" WTF!?!?!?