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[–] coldacid 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

TIL if I had been more of a jerk during high school, I could have scored with all the girls.

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[–] jeegte12 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

You just learned that today?

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[–] ColoradoJustice 2 points 3 points (+5|-2) ago 

WTF is it with America and this "bullying" fascination?!

This isn't new!!! The people at the top are always dicks and constantly fighting amongst each other for dominance.

Bullies aren't interested in nerds or in geeks or in random acts of abuse (only if you get in their way)... Bullies are concerned with being #1.

This is like looking at the Koch brothers (who had to be given boxing gloves so they don't kill each other from the bar knuckle fighting they engaged in with each other) and pretending that those rich bastards are somehow "low status, depressed, or have low self-esteem".

Bullies are people of power! When will America learn this?

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[–] the_spectre 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

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[–] Ralph_Malph 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

First thing that came to my mind upon reading the post title.

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[–] FreshieD 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

That certainly seems to fly in the face of what's been said in the past; that bullies pick on others to alleviate their own feelings of inadequacy.

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[–] jeegte12 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

People who say that are the same people who say homophobes don't like gay people because they're actually trying to hide being gay themselves. It's just pseudo-psychological fantasy.

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[–] SharonLeeFan ago 

Yeah if you take a look at some of the most vocal anti-gay US politicians, you'd see that that theory holds water. Some homophobes are just assholes, but plenty are self-repressed gays.

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[–] FreshieD ago 

Ah, well, I'm one of the people who says that. The only reason I can see someone being homophobic is if they're afraid that being exposed to homosexuality will make them question their own sexuality and they're so insecure that scares them and/or they're brainwashed by religion to hate anyone the church leadership tells them to.

I'd love to hear a reasoned/rational counter-argument to that if you have one, it might help me understand some of the people in my family.

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[–] conundrumbombs 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

This makes a lot of sense, because all you have to do is state the inverse:

"Provocative new study finds victims of bullying have lowest self-esteem, social status, highest rates of depression."

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[–] RonaldRayGuns 1 point 5 points (+6|-1) ago 

suck it, nerds

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[–] bunsenhoneydew 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

So people who think they're better than others generally feel like they're better than others.

Next time we should do a study to see what religion the pope identifies under

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[–] Quawonk 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

Of course bullies think they're better than everyone else. That's why they do what they do.

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