One of em is being a mean bitch to another person.
We all love a good bitch. They translated deliciously on the screen and let's face it. We also secretly aspire to be one, like the girls in Mean Girls and Gossip Girl. Making clever snide hurtful remarks and dishing a good cold revenge served on a cold silver platter. However that prude called "conscience" always win.
I will admit I am kinda a bitch myself. I was sometimes part of the group, that made fun of that weird girl that won't shut up about how awesome things are. I used to tell myself that I let a certain 'fight' happened between 2 girls because I accidentally let a certain information slipped. However if I looked hard into myself, I know that it is just because I hated that girl and just like to see 'fireworks' happened for my own enjoyment. I knew perfectly well of the consequences. Ooohh I was a spiteful little thing.
But as I grew older, I like to think that I learned better. I am appropriately ashamed if I think about my behavior then. And I felt bad for some of the girls that I openly mocked of. I am still spiteful at times, but conscience or politeness or whatever positive hindrance it might be, made me bite my tongue. At times.
And I believe that is what most adults and especially mothers should know and learned. That we as teenagers are bratty. Emotional. Could not care a tuppence of others except own leisure. But we should know better right, when we grew up? When life experiences and karma had teaches us a lesson or two. That when we grew up, the basic line of right and wrong should be at least clear.
But I guess not all people benefit from adulthood. So when I learned of the Megan Meier case, I was horrified. I followed the Megan Meier case with interest few weeks/months back and now that the mother is being indicted it would be interesting (to say the least) on how legal laws are going to approach bullying in the WWW.
Those who are not familiar with the case, the summary is that a mother was impersonating as a 16 yr old boy to chat up a 13 yr old girl (Megan) in MySpace just so she could know what Megan was talking about her daughter. Basically what she did was built Megan hopes up and then sending it crashing down by sending cruel messages which led the depressed and suicidal girl to hang herself.
There are some disputes that she may not write the nasty comment but at one point or the other she was involved. And the thought that an adult think that it is fine to impersonate someone else to get information from a 13 year old girl... it seems petty, hurtful, childish and immature. Even when I was 14, I balked at such ideas.
Clearly common sense is not exercised by all human.
We all love a good bitch. They translated deliciously on the screen and let's face it. We also secretly aspire to be one, like the girls in Mean Girls and Gossip Girl. Making clever snide hurtful remarks and dishing a good cold revenge served on a cold silver platter. However that prude called "conscience" always win.
I will admit I am kinda a bitch myself. I was sometimes part of the group, that made fun of that weird girl that won't shut up about how awesome things are. I used to tell myself that I let a certain 'fight' happened between 2 girls because I accidentally let a certain information slipped. However if I looked hard into myself, I know that it is just because I hated that girl and just like to see 'fireworks' happened for my own enjoyment. I knew perfectly well of the consequences. Ooohh I was a spiteful little thing.
But as I grew older, I like to think that I learned better. I am appropriately ashamed if I think about my behavior then. And I felt bad for some of the girls that I openly mocked of. I am still spiteful at times, but conscience or politeness or whatever positive hindrance it might be, made me bite my tongue. At times.
And I believe that is what most adults and especially mothers should know and learned. That we as teenagers are bratty. Emotional. Could not care a tuppence of others except own leisure. But we should know better right, when we grew up? When life experiences and karma had teaches us a lesson or two. That when we grew up, the basic line of right and wrong should be at least clear.
But I guess not all people benefit from adulthood. So when I learned of the Megan Meier case, I was horrified. I followed the Megan Meier case with interest few weeks/months back and now that the mother is being indicted it would be interesting (to say the least) on how legal laws are going to approach bullying in the WWW.
Those who are not familiar with the case, the summary is that a mother was impersonating as a 16 yr old boy to chat up a 13 yr old girl (Megan) in MySpace just so she could know what Megan was talking about her daughter. Basically what she did was built Megan hopes up and then sending it crashing down by sending cruel messages which led the depressed and suicidal girl to hang herself.
There are some disputes that she may not write the nasty comment but at one point or the other she was involved. And the thought that an adult think that it is fine to impersonate someone else to get information from a 13 year old girl... it seems petty, hurtful, childish and immature. Even when I was 14, I balked at such ideas.
Clearly common sense is not exercised by all human.
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I did think that probably the girl is a little spoilt and bratty, but after all she is a 13 year old girl/child.
And no adult should stoop to that level to hurt a child.
But then again, Dilla is right too. I know I've harbored suicidal thoughts a few times. Obviously I never followed through on them. But maybe some people are more easily driven to such things.
in the end we have a generation of degenerates. i would love the see how the kids gonna be like in 2035. it will be fun!
NOT!
I guess the less responsibility we tried to foster off kids, the more fucked up they become? Maybe nature intended for us to be weary and saddled with responsibilities and the certainty of a boring living toiling away... to not entertain silly ideas?