I don't doubt that bullying is something that can seriously affect a child, but making a big song and dance about it doesn't help the child. People will be picked on, kids will be kids, que sera sera.

The way I see it, either what the bully is saying is false, so you shouldn't care. Or what the bully is saying is true, so do something about it.

I don't really think that our children are too sensitive.

This post may take some time, or not, depends on how I feel by the end of it:

First, let me point out a theory called Regression Towards the Mean. It is a statistically proven phenomena that when there is an extreme at one point, there will often be a more average occurrence in another point.

As well, let me point out reactance), which is a rebellion towards authoritarian rules for conformity or anything that threatens someone's individual behavioral freedoms.

Before Carl Rogers, Dr. Spock, and the humanist movement that started in the 50s and took great interest by the American public in the 60s, discipline was a thing of brutality. Parents hit their children to stop them from misbehaving, and even earlier than that punishment of criminals could be quite sadistic (dismemberment, guillotine, torture, etc.).

People were rough and unconcerned with "feelings" as in "you hurt my feelings." They settled many disputes with fights, sometimes to the death. Duels were legal.

The humanist movement was a major revolution in how we treated one another. Hell, the hippies were pacifists who practiced free love and interracial dating commonly.

So children of the 60s and 70s were raised in very different households from their parents. They were raised learning the humanistic approach to social interaction, and political correctness took a great strength in the 70s and 80s and even today.

So before the New Left movement, we saw rigid conservative values and discipline, seen as an extreme, being the common form. The New Left humanists took over, and it went from "beat your kids" to "talk to your kids." When before the PC movement, it was totally fine to say "nigger" and "sweet-cheeks" in the work place. Not out of humor, but out of disrespect towards your comrades.

So parents today are the sensitive ones. they grew up either witnessing and detesting or completely avoiding an ugly past. They push their values unto their children, and the children will either accept it, or as many as we've seen "Louis CK, Joe Rogan, Doug Stanhope, Christ Rock" React against it. Not out of racism or sexism, but out of the anti-authoritarian sentiment. Young people say "you're gay" or "fuck off faggot" not out of hatred towards gays, but out of the very fact that they don't care if you're gay or not, they just want ways to insult others. These are, of course, men who came out of the 70s and 80s, so when looking at the young generation, we have to see which of them ARE PC and which of them aren't.

Most of the young generation is not bigoted. In my college, the College Republicans do not care about Gay marriage. The only people who care about gay marriage are the extremely christian groups. But in general, even conservatives of today's generation do not care about the issues of Gay marriage. It is, at this point, a non-issue.

Today's generation does not wish to harm others or treat others as low human beings. They are post-racial and post-bigotry. so when the issue of "you can't say that" or "what should we do about these kids who get called names," the common response is "learn how to defend yourself."

Now, clearly bullying is the new "New Left" movement. It is a big PC storm that even calls for legislation banning any kind of "cyber harassment" or bullying that occurs among young people. Hell, cyber bullying can effect adults under certain legislative proposals. Bullying is bad, but it is a fact of life. Kids can be cruel, and that's how we discover ourselves. When a kid is pushed into killing themselves (Bully) or shooting up a school (Columbine), it makes little sense to say "well, now we need legislation to make sure this doesn't happen again." Clearly these kids were extreme examples. They were already kind of messed up, and legislation is going to help stop that.

When today's generation sees the pushes by the older generation to censor and limit our lives for the sake of "sensitivity" it causes a stir. We don't want to hurt others, but we don't want to be told what to do. Some kids are big into political correctness, some of them aren't. The ones who aren't, and i was one of those kids, are reacting against this idea that authority can tell us what we can and can't say for the sake of not hurting other's "feelings."

And the fact that no matter how hard the PC movement works against insensitive words (like trying to ban "bitch" and "ho" from the radio), the young audience, as intelligent and enlightened as we are, will not accept the idea that people can tell other people how to speak. Call it regression towards the mean, maybe. It's a middle ground for two extremes (hate someone and call them "nigger" or love everyone and never say anything insensitive). We say what we want and feel what we want. I'm pretty accepting of all types, and I say some pretty harsh shit all the time.

I see the future generation as looking back at the PC era as just another ugly past. there was the racists of the early America and then there was the Thought Police of the middle America. the future America, a more evolved and educated America, will see that individuality is the most important theme. No class superiority. No collectivism. Just individuals. We are all different, accept and move on.

The difference is that in the past, children would fight back. Now, they bring a gun when they fight back.

Kids are way to sensitive... As a High School student myself i can see that if i tell a kid "Hi" the wrong way he/she'll begging hating me and thinking I'm being mean to him/her... We have come to a generation that can't take any shit what so ever. I get bullied, but i don't care... People bully because they have some problem either at home or somewhere else, why should I care about their problems if they think they can justify what they do by bullying another kid?

us kids think a little name call as bullying it happend to me

Today's children are raised as bunch of wussies and pansies. Everyone is worried about hurting someone's feeling. MAN UP!

As I've never been bullied before, I would say Children now are becoming little babies. They expect everything done for them and expect so many things I never expected when I was a child. Children are becoming so needy and spoiled.

In recent years, society has caused kids and adults to believe they are the victims. Everyones a victim. I was bullied and I now am stronger than I was before because I taught myself that I am the only one who can make myself feel inferior. While yes, technology has allowed people to turn bullying into harmful harassing or even stalking, it is the new adults jobs to teach their kids to stand up for themselves and control their own thoughts. Education on these conflicts is crucial. I recommend that every child reads the book Ender's Game. The character Andrew Wiggens(Ender) deals with bullies and takes care of it. Now I'm not saying that kids should hurt anyone physically, but the principle behind it. "Finish it, so there is no way for it to start again."

Everybody's getting more sensitive. You look at TV, you see men complaining because the aftershave stings. What kind of a pathetic example is that?!