I'm just wondering if anybody else has had similar feelings on this matter, or if you have completely different ones those are welcome too.

I've become increasingly concerned about the "wussification" (as I call it) of todays youth. I don't know of all the countries and societies that have this problem, but the United States and Canada sure have it.

My inspiration for this thread was a CNN report I just saw as I had my morning coffee. They were reporting on this trend of backyard helmet boxing as if it were a new terrible trend of violence. These aren't even street-style brawls, the kids wear helmets and gloves and have all your basic rules like no hitting below the belt. Yet CNN, as per usual media sensationalization, was acting like this is some disturbing new fad, a danger to our kids. I personally find that rediculous considering my and my little brother had boxing matches, no helmets, and it toughened us up a little! (as well as provided some fun).

Some other, more extreme examples, come to mind. Like 3 kids who were suspended from a school in the states for playing cops and robbers. They were pointing their fingers at each other going "bang bang", and the principal actually had the balls to say "the other children were frightened".
Another case in Florida I heard involved a kid in 3rd grade. He was suspended for a week because she pointed a chicken wing at his best friend and said "bang".

Just a few months ago my brother was pinned up against a locker and had the shit beaten out of him by a kid who had bullied him for years. I was there with his teacher and the principal discussing the matter, and my brother said "I should have defended myself", and the fucking teacher actually said to him "well it's good you didn't, because then you'd be in trouble too".

WHEN DID SELF DEFENCE STOP BEING A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT???

My whole point here is that in a vain attempt to raise a culture of peace-loving people, we are in fact raising one filled with victims. Through my own experience with school policy, and undoubtedly your own, kids are being conditioned in a way that completely disempower's them.
I was bullied through school, horribly, and I blame it largely on the disempowering conditioning imposed upon me since a young age. I was always conditioned to believe that if a bully were after you, you run to a teacher for help. Of course they never provide any real help, and kids have no fear of punishment since the teachers have no real authority anymore. So what did I become? The same thing as a lot of kids, a victim.

I'd even go so far as to say this is why we have so many school shootings today, because victimized kids have no understanding of how to defend themselves through personal, physical and psychological confidence. Kids aren't taught anything about honor, anything about about ganging up on one kid or punching someone in the back of the head. Instead they're just taught to be unwavering pacifists, 100% dependant on an authority that cannot and will not protect you. I've seen the results, everyone has seen the results. You have the good kids sticking to these rules and becoming victims, or you get kids who won't abide by the rules and learn to assert their dominance (as is genetically programmed) by any means necessary, with no idea whatsoever of the difference between honorable and dirty fighting; seeing as all fighting is somehow seen as an unnatural thing for kids to do.

We're not raising pacifists, we're raising victims. Will the system ever wake up to this?
mrdevious Reviewed by mrdevious on . The mass-wussification of our youth I'm just wondering if anybody else has had similar feelings on this matter, or if you have completely different ones those are welcome too. I've become increasingly concerned about the "wussification" (as I call it) of todays youth. I don't know of all the countries and societies that have this problem, but the United States and Canada sure have it. My inspiration for this thread was a CNN report I just saw as I had my morning coffee. They were reporting on this trend of backyard helmet Rating: 5