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Post by liss31d on Jun 22, 2007 12:52:20 GMT -5
I was made fun of (and still am!) for being the shortest girl in my year. I'm around 5"2, was constantly teased by my friends about it and my old boyfriend used to call me 'midget.' So no matter what, people always get teased about something. If someone was 'perfect' he/she would probably be made fun of for being perfect...
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Post by Lauren on Jun 22, 2007 14:42:14 GMT -5
In high school everybody called me girlzilla, because I was 6' by the time I was 16. I do agree that people will always find something to make fun of in a person.
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Post by aln1982 on Jun 22, 2007 16:38:31 GMT -5
^ Totally agree. I always got teased for being so short (about 5'1") but my younger cousin is teased for being so tall. Gracie, I'll tell her about you and that will make her feel better ;D She always enjoys hearing about tall people who are successful and have happy lives Teasing is a fact of life but not a fun thing to deal with, especially when it is brutal like the Spaz Girl stuff. I hate it most, though, when it seems to focus on appearance and people seem so concerned with looks now, it seems.
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Post by Lauren on Jun 22, 2007 16:43:50 GMT -5
^ Yeah, it really bothers me when people make fun of others fior superificial things like height or whatever, without getting to know them as people.
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Post by lyricalangel on Jun 22, 2007 18:10:22 GMT -5
I was always teased for being short too. My friends still tease me sometimes for not being able to reach stuff.
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Post by msstock87 on Jun 23, 2007 10:36:19 GMT -5
Being teased on something you can't control just isn't fair. It has always bothered me how people can be so superficial and go along with the crowd when teasing is involved!
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Post by blossom114 on Jun 23, 2007 11:12:59 GMT -5
i'm not that short, but I'm 5'4...and growing up I had two friends that were 5'9.. 5'10 or whatever (I was supposed to be 5'9...d**n doctors gave me false hope) so they always teased me for being "Soooooo short" funny though, growing up I was always one of the tallest kids in my class...then in middle school they all caught up it always drove me nuts that they said kristy was the shortest one in her grade at 5'0. She's 13... kay yeah 5'0 isn't tall, it's short...but you'd think that there would be someone shorter than that? especially guys? cause you know..um..they usually hit puberty later...? I knew several people that were shorter than 5'0. (haha there was this one girl I went to school with that was in musicals and stuff with me and she was 4'7. The one year we had 9 elementary school kids in the show with us, she kind of blended in with them).
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jun 23, 2007 12:01:47 GMT -5
I was always kind of a bully growing up, unfortunately. I was definitely the girl making fun of kids. Awful I know and I grew out of it in junior high thankfully. I was a horrible child! I don't remember how tall kids were in junior high but I always thought 5'0 sounded short even for 13. I'm 5'7 and have been for practically ever, I was taller than a lot of kids growing up until around high school.
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Post by Amalia on Jun 23, 2007 22:24:22 GMT -5
It has always bothered me how people can be so superficial and go along with the crowd when teasing is involved! ^ Tell me about it. At work, there's this one guy that a group of the employees were trying to get fired. The reason was because he looked kind of funny. They keep getting him in trouble by telling lies about him to the manager and hassling him at work. One day one of them phoned the manager after they had an argument and the manager wanted to talk to that guy. He picked up the phone and said, "Sir, I can't take these two bitches anymore. I quit." And we never heard from him again. Sad thing is, since they knew that I was his friend, now they are doing the same thing to me. Sorry. Anyways, my point is that I totally agree with you, msstock, a group of people targeting a person like that sucks.
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Post by aln1982 on Jun 23, 2007 23:25:59 GMT -5
I was always kind of a bully growing up, unfortunately. I was definitely the girl making fun of kids. Awful I know and I grew out of it in junior high thankfully. I was a horrible child! I don't remember how tall kids were in junior high but I always thought 5'0 sounded short even for 13. I'm 5'7 and have been for practically ever, I was taller than a lot of kids growing up until around high school. ^ It sounds like we were opposites even as kids ;D I was teased for being small and for other things, too, but the main thing I was teased for was standing up for the kids that always got made fun of (the "fat" kids, kids who looked like "freaks", had mental disabilities, etc.) Kids - adults too, unfortunately - can be very cruel. As for Kristy's height, it always bugged me too that they thought she was so short. I had an uncle that was like 4'8 until 10th grade (now he is almost 6') and am barely over 5' myself now (5'1). Of course, my little cousin is in 8th grade right now (oops.... just "graduated" ;D) and towers over me at 5'9 and her sister is 10 and at least as tall as me. As for looks in books, this is probably awful but I prefer to imagine all of the characters that I read as beautiful. And when I watch tv and movies, I like watching attractive actors and actresses. That is supposed to cause some type of insecurity, I guess, for women but I find it does the opposite for me. Maybe this is because I like to picture myself as the main character or put myself in the movie/show/book and really don't wish to "be" unattractive.
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Post by Lauren on Jul 6, 2007 18:35:30 GMT -5
^ I do that too. I just don't like to read about or watch unattractive people, as mean as that sounds.
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Post by Amalia on Jul 6, 2007 21:27:06 GMT -5
^ Me too. I don't like watching unattractive people because then I feel ripped off. The show or movie feels like a home movie or something instead of actual movies or shows that I paid good money to see (for rental fees or the electricity bill for t.v.)
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Post by aln1982 on Jul 6, 2007 23:09:59 GMT -5
^ ;D Glad to hear I'm not alone so I don't feel so bad. Guess this would make sense because studies also show that people are in a better mood after seeing a beautiful face. Hmmm - doesn't that conflict the study that seeing beautiful women makes women feel insecure. Or maybe they feel insecure in a "good" way - ha ha ;D Maybe seeing beautiful Stacey at every meeting puts Mal in a good mood but makes her insecure ;D Mcpon, just noticed you're at the Wilders now. Congrats!
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Post by Lauren on Jul 6, 2007 23:15:20 GMT -5
I think I remember learning about that in one of my education classes.
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Post by blossom114 on Jul 7, 2007 10:59:11 GMT -5
^^ on teh teasing. I was teased a LOT when I was a kid....it kind of really started when I was in fourth grade, and then progressed. Interestingly enough, in high school it got better, but there were times where...yeah it just sucked. (I found a great group of friends in choir and theatre...so that helped) Middle school was awful though. I would NEVER want to go back to middle school. I was watching Maury (something I never do, but I was bored) and they were talking about how kids had changed from when they were in school, and there was a story about this girl who was teased, and she liked this guy, and he ended up playing a prank on her that everyone was in on...and that hit a little too cloes to home. (though i dont think the guy in question for me was actually a part of it, i think it was mainly his buddies). Anyway...yeah, in turn, I went along with some of the other kids when it came down to the less desirables I guess you could say. Looking back on it nwo, I feel awful for how I treated this one guy because of the wy the other kids treated him. If i coudl take back anything I did to him...which was going along with the crowd..I would...interestingly enough though, now he's on my facebook friends. (he added me).
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