So I'm taking a slight diversion away from the usual topics to talk about something I feel pretty strongly about. Bullying. In what seemed like serendipitous timing, literally a few minutes after finishing A.S. King's fantastic book "Everybody Sees the Ants" (a huge part of which is on the topic of bullying), I was browsing FB and came across a meme picture that was joking about bullying. The joke was pretty tame even if like certain other kinds of jokes, it's one of those things I don't personally find funny. The comment section on the other hand was a gong show. There were obviously some decent human beings who pointed out how horrible bullying is, and then there were the bullies and bully defenders who really do think that tormenting others is funny. I'm trying to run a somewhat objective page here, but from someone who experienced bullying first hand for a large portion of my school years, FUCK BULLIES AND FUCK ANYONE DEFENDING THAT BEHAVIOUR. Okay, I think I'm done. Just needed to get that off my chest. We'll be back to random thoughts on relationships and uplifting memes once I'm in a good headspace again. I'm not sharing the original joke, but here's a random selection of some of the comments...
