What exactly is wrong about this story from my childhood?
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Pot, meet fucking Kettle, Mark. Where’s your fucking sensitivity when it comes to…oh, I don’t know, anything you don’t like on a given day? Hmm??
Maybe, but consider that rather than this being about a bunch of mean and nasty “Heathers,” women are just fed up with this chivalrous male fantasy bullshit. It needs to stop. Standing up for kids being bullied, great. Rescuing a pretty girl and relishing being her knight in shining armor, yuck.
Eh… I think I make better points. Many of yours were rather thin… Example: “What kid in high school ever talks about their childhood… and blah blah blah.” Um, plenty. Maybe go hang out with some.
OK, I’ll admit I glamourized myself a bit telling this story. Here is the non-exaggerated, completely honest version of this story; There’s a kid in my class in 3rd grade (2010-2011), who was an assole. He stole money from me once, and did things to get ME in trouble all while taunting me endlessly. Then one day I saw a girl in our class getting picked on by the boy and his 2 cronies on the playground. Our school’s recess monitors are always too busy with all the ball games on the field, so the playground is basically the wild wild west. They then pushed her off the playground and she hit the firemans pole and scraped her arm falling down. She started crying loudly, and the 2 cronies kinda stepped back a little so they wouldn’t get in trouble, but he just kept teasing her, so I grabbed a baseball from the 6th graders (they had a spare ball) and threw it at his ass and he picked it up afterwards. Just then, a recess monitor came, which made the cronies disappear quickly and questioned what was going on. I told her about the kid picking on the girl and pushing her down, and jackass mentioned the baseball but me and the girl denied it said he was the one who was about to throw it. the recess monitor believed her because no one questions a crying little girl. I then took her to the health room where she got her arm band aided and she thanked me for helping her. We then started joking around about the whole “knight in shining armor” thing. We were not saying that stuff in earnest. Later on, I find out the kid got a 2 week detention (which at our school was spending snack recess and lunch recess raking leaves with the custodians) for what he did, and a lot of people were patting me on the back for helping the out.
You really should talk to your school counselor. There is help. Not reading that but your constant need for validation over your lies is concerning.
It’s hard to believe anything you say about the story at this point, because you’ve gone back and forth about how much of it is accurate, and now you’ve edited out just those parts people objected to most: hitting the kid in the face with a hard ball, and believing yourself to be a knight rescuing a beautiful damsel.
Give me a damn break. I’m recollecting 8 year old information, and I already admitted I exaggerated the story. Answer me this: why would I have any reason to make up a story like this? I wouldn’t! There’s no reason for me to make something like this up. I was just trying to see why people say I’m the real villain in this story, which I now realize why that is. I have no reason to make this story up, and I did not.
What reason did you have for making up all that stuff you *admitted* was fake? Why do people make up those hundreds of “and then the whole class cheered” stories on reddit and FB? For positive attention and likes, of course. And because they want to think of themselves as a cool person.
Anyway, glad you realized why people were not into it.
I know, I was just as bad as the jackass kid, and I now realize that. I googled advice and saw this site and posted this story last night to answer that question I had. I’m just curious to know, if you were me in that story what would you have done? Also, what would you have done if you were the girl in the story?
Ok, we both know this is a fake scenario, but putting that aside for the moment, I’d say you could have gone and gotten a playground monitor instead of going and getting a baseball, and said hey, look at what those 3 kids are doing to that one kid. A teacher is def going to put a stop to it, while a baseball is not.
The girl could have started yelling sooner to attract attention.
Honestly, that “no one questions a crying little girl” is ick too. That’s an outdated belief that needs to be questioned and discarded. It’s part of the whole damsel in distress, helpless female myth.
As a kid and as a babysitter, I’ve definitely questioned crying little girls to get to the bottom of a situation and deal with it.
