DAMIAN LILLARD TAKES A STAND AGAINST BULLYING

www.trailblazers.com/respect

 

This crap never works. Do they actually think that "taking a stand against bullying" will stop kids from doing something that has been going on forever? Kids pick on other kids. Adults pick on other adults.

Bullying has to stop from the top down, and that means parents need to teach their kids it's not okay. It's that simple. Unfortunately, some parents are assholes.

 

I took a stand against my bullies by trying to strangle them. Best move I ever made. I gained a ton of confidence in knowing it took five people to pull me off the little shits, and they never bothered me again.

 

Bout Time he did something useful!

 

Don't you think it's a little absurd for a grown man to strangle little kids though?

 

I took a stand against bullying when I ran away from the Tourville Twins in the 2nd grade. 15 years later at my class reunion one of the sisters hit on me in a different way and I had to tell her I was straight. True story. It was the weirdest thing to remember being so afraid of them (okay they were some bad ass sisters and I was a strange only child who had no friends) in school and then she was just so sweet all those years later. She was still a bad ass but I didn't fear for my life anymore.

Okay, I know that was random but this is a board full of testosterone and you boys do love a good story about girls doing it.

 

Pretty much this. You want people to stop talking shit, or testing your toughness -- what "bullying" on the playground really boils down to -- then you then pop them in the throat 1 or 10 times and it's funny how the bullshit just sort of evaporates. Going into youth wrestling when I was 11 didn't hurt either.

 

Gotta do whatchya' gotta do.

 

That is fine if you are a boy, but what about little girls? We were brutal on fat, ugly, stupid girls. And I am not proud of it. Creating awareness can't hurt.

 

I think this kind of thing does help. It forces kids to confront their own thinking. It redefines the role of "jock" in a school.

Personally, I've long since forgotten about any bullying I had done to me (or might have done) in school. But campaigns like this and subsequent discussions have driven home to me how important it is.

I think I already told this story, but I think about it a lot. I caught my younger son (age 5 at the time) bullying a little girl at McDonald's once. My wrath was swift and merciless. Probably the angriest he's ever seen me. I threw his barely eaten dinner in the trash, made him apologize, and we left. Both my sons were too scared to say a word on the way home. (I wasn't really as angry as I presented myself. I almost never am. I display anger to get the result I want from my kids at times, but I almost never let myself get truly angry with them.)

I'm like everybody else--I think PR and advertising doesn't work on me. But if I look at myself honestly, I suppose a big part of how I handled this bullying episode was probably molded by PR campaigns like this. It would've been much simpler to blow it off or just have a sharp word and carry on.

 

See, but that's just good parenting. I wish more parents were like that, but a lot actually think it's good and healthy for their kids to establish some form of dominance.

 

Thank you mook

Bullying is not about schoolyard spats - it's targeting a person for abuse, day after day, over and over and over and over.
Some kids are literally murdered. Some kill themselves. Some spend their lives in abusive relationships, convinced they are worthless. Others shut out the world.

Damian may not be able to make a bully not bully, but I think the point, as mook and others have said, is awareness. Too often authorities side with the abuser or just say nothing to be done or treat abuse like a rite of passage.

Check out this video. Then tell me this is harmless kid behavior.

 

Good point about awareness (especially parental awareness - we begin to forget after we've left school about the persistent bullshit we generally went through)...

 

So, you expressed anger at your child's bullying by bullying your child?

 

Thanks. But my point was that a lot of the reason I was a good parent in this situation was because of PR campaigns like Lillard's.

My mom and dad were pretty good parents, but I can easily see them totally blowing this off 35 years ago. Kids being kids.

This video always makes me laugh and enraged at the same time. My response is probably another victory for PR:

[video=youtube;roREnVhd_og]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roREnVhd_og[/video]

People shouldn't be assholes. But sometimes you just have to teach them they are being assholes because they are too stupid to know it.

 

Yagoddamned right. *raises rear shoulder in menacing manner*

Hey, man, I'm just making this parenting thing up as I go.

 

I'm not trying to be an ass, but that doesn't make sense to me. You need a celebrity to tell you that bullying is wrong?

 

The more different ways they hear it the better. It won't eliminate the problem, but if it helps cut it down by 10% that is huge. There is no excuse for the mental abuse that some of these kids go through. They literally are scarred for life about humiliating acts when they are young.

 

loved this one.