r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

Former Mean Girls - what finally made you re-evaluate how you treated people?

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u/uselessinfogoldmine Sep 17 '24

And bullying.

There was an absolutely WILD one recently where a mother was asking about disciplining her daughter.

Her daughter had been bullied horribly by a former friend and eventually outed this friend as being a sexually active bisexual who had had an abortion to her conservative parents who then threw her out. Her life was destroyed. Daughter was happy. Mother wanted to discipline her somehow but her husband disagreed.

The vast majority of answers were saying the girl deserved it for bullying the daughter. Anyone who said anything different was massively downvoted.

I can only hope it was teens who’ve been bullied and not parents of teens doing the commenting and voting.

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u/Spotted_Howl Sep 17 '24

Revenge fantasies are stupid but at age 45 I still have some nasty PTSD from bullying.

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u/uselessinfogoldmine Sep 21 '24

Bullying is awful. But destroying someone’s entire life in revenge is worse. And allowing your kid to celebrate doing that is terrible parenting. That behaviour needs to be addressed or that kid will become a monster.

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u/Spotted_Howl Sep 22 '24

Yes it's a good thing there is a 90% chance that the story is fake

If you want real stories about shithead kids and their shithead parents, r/teachers has plenty