Pushing the Humiliation Threshold

Click here, then scroll down a little bit and click on the video link entitled Pushing the Humiliation Threshold. There you will see hidden camera footage of what people do when they see a group of teens publicly humiliating and insulting another teen. What do we do with Mean Girls?

Most of the male passers-by just kept walking. Usually men don't get involved in these things unless the taunting becomes physical. Some of the men just yelled at the girls from a distance. Some women, however, jumped right in and confronted the bullies. What's really telling is how the women actually carried out the confrontation. They became bullies themselves, using the same insults and tauntings as the teens.

This, to me, is part and parcel of the perpetuation of the cult of the child-- children today are worshiped like gods and are either revered or hated. We also see an accompanying regression of adults into adolescence.

Not one of the adults in the video actually told the offenders that their behavior was just plain wrong. Why are adults so afraid to say that to children? Is resorting to ad hominem attacks the best adults can do? Again, the cult of the child mentality is at play here.

Those girls needed to be told that what they were doing to that lone girl was wrong and they know it! It has nothing to do with personalities or any other subjective standard. It has to do with objective mores of conduct. It's wrong to taunt other people like that. Period.