There’s the whole stranger danger myth, and how most sexual abusers are people you know… there’s no razor blade Halloween candy....
One of the stupidest ones I saw, from personal experience, was when the superintendent of my Middle School took over a history class one day to inform us that if a school bully attacks you, and you fight back, you will be suspended/expelled, and the only way to protect yourself from this fate is to passively accept whatever beating the bully offers you by curling into a ball and exposing your back to them.
By the way, kudos for taking an interesting lesson from the biggest moron in all of Portal 2. You have truly displayed that the wise can learn (at least one, but possibly many) thing(s) from a fool.
One of the stupidest ones I saw, from personal experience, was when the superintendent of my Middle School took over a history class one day to inform us that if a school bully attacks you, and you fight back, you will be suspended/expelled, and the only way to protect yourself from this fate is to passively accept whatever beating the bully offers you by curling into a ball and exposing your back to them.
What a dick! If my children were sent home with a suspension in such a circumstance I would be sure to give them my full support and assurance that they did exactly the right thing.
I may also explain to them that if defending oneself receives the exact same penalty that attacking someone gets it will usually be best to initiate the combat yourself. Particularly if done with no bravado and noncombative body language right up until you strike. Appropraiate places to hit bullies include the testicles, throat, solar plexus, eyes and nose. The nose and testicles are particularly good for humiliating them in front of their peers.
I may also explain to them that if defending oneself receives the exact same penalty that attacking someone gets it will usually be best to initiate the combat yourself.
This is excellent advice, with the caveat that the school’s disciplinary penalty is probably not the only cost. Being known as “the kid who walks expressionlessly up to other kids and punches them in the testicles without warning” may be a significant penalty too. (This doesn’t mean striking first is always a bad strategy, just that it needs to be done carefully).
Being known as “the kid who walks expressionlessly up to other kids and punches them in the testicles without warning” may be a significant penalty too.
I was more referring to that time period when the bully was working himself with bluster right in the non-victim’s face. :)
There’s the whole stranger danger myth, and how most sexual abusers are people you know… there’s no razor blade Halloween candy....
One of the stupidest ones I saw, from personal experience, was when the superintendent of my Middle School took over a history class one day to inform us that if a school bully attacks you, and you fight back, you will be suspended/expelled, and the only way to protect yourself from this fate is to passively accept whatever beating the bully offers you by curling into a ball and exposing your back to them.
By the way, kudos for taking an interesting lesson from the biggest moron in all of Portal 2. You have truly displayed that the wise can learn (at least one, but possibly many) thing(s) from a fool.
What a dick! If my children were sent home with a suspension in such a circumstance I would be sure to give them my full support and assurance that they did exactly the right thing.
I may also explain to them that if defending oneself receives the exact same penalty that attacking someone gets it will usually be best to initiate the combat yourself. Particularly if done with no bravado and noncombative body language right up until you strike. Appropraiate places to hit bullies include the testicles, throat, solar plexus, eyes and nose. The nose and testicles are particularly good for humiliating them in front of their peers.
This is excellent advice, with the caveat that the school’s disciplinary penalty is probably not the only cost. Being known as “the kid who walks expressionlessly up to other kids and punches them in the testicles without warning” may be a significant penalty too. (This doesn’t mean striking first is always a bad strategy, just that it needs to be done carefully).
I was more referring to that time period when the bully was working himself with bluster right in the non-victim’s face. :)