Comment by LPisGood
10 months ago
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. I’m not even saying it doesn’t happen at all higher rate than the general population.
But 90% is just too much to be feasible.
10 months ago
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. I’m not even saying it doesn’t happen at all higher rate than the general population.
But 90% is just too much to be feasible.
Well all good stats are made up.
My point was more that its doesn't take a large chunk of a population to mistreat others to make mistreatment almost inescapable.
For child sexual abuse, which is studied more than "anti-nerd bullying" offenders are just a few percent of the population, if that (I can't actually find good sources for population incidence of being an abuser) but the offended against are 1/6 to 1/3 of the population.
Another interesting point is that some nerdy folks might not even notice the bullying that much - I once had a friend from high school say that they always felt bad for how much bullying I experienced, and I said "what? what do you mean?" I felt that many of the folks in high school were terribly evil people, but I didn't get that upset by the bullying itself. Just determined to move as soon as I could. Not like as a strategy to over come the bullying, just to get among people I can respect.