Question about Bullying

I once got bullied for being a brony. Wasn't intense and I could always shut them up. It was just something they couldn't get. And, as always, if people can't understand something, poke fun at it. the best thing about it was one day in class (and this was in college mind you) I was talking about the EQ movie as something I studying for genre class. and the same guy said, "Why would you even watch that!?" And a girl said, "What is it?" I answered "My Little Pony." And of course she was like, "Oh I watched that when I was little." And she was like, "What wrong with him watching it? I think that's really sweet. Not to mention, he's secure in his manliness to be able to watch it. That's kinda hot." And she was the girl he liked too. I felt a little victory that day... for all Bronys.

 

I got bullied because i have autism.

Its bad because it can change the victims outlook on the human race into an extremely negative light.

I was like 10 at the time.

 

I find that folks online are more bully-ish toward bronies than real people I've met. Mind you I'm not one of the 'evangelicals', but I wear my Derpy backpack around outside while skateboarding, and most people just seem to ignore it. So... I guess I'm lucky that I haven't caught much flack for it... yet.

 

Can't say I have. I've been bullied in the past but that was well before I became a brony. Eventually I just started standing up for myself. I'm at the point now where words don't really bother me. I can laugh at a joke directed at me just as well as anyone else can. I don't get serious until things get physical. I catch a lot of flack online for being a brony but like I said, I just laugh it off. If you don't give them the satisfaction of getting to you then they lose interest.

I remember doing a presentation at college in which I talked about being a brony. At the end of the semester we had to sign cards for everyone. I got mine back and this girl had wrote how she was obsessed with my being a brony. I thought it was humorous. I actually took it as a compliment that she found me interesting.

It is in my general experience that adults don't typically care. I could walk into my college decked out in brony gear and probably wouldn't get anything more than an occasional glance. It's the younger generations that are doing most of the bullying. I'm sure there are adults who have bullied someone because they like the show but it's uncommon. Kids like to take anything they can and use it against someone. I'm not sure why kids/teenagers do it but they do. I picked on kids in High School but I always picked on the bigger kids, the ones who liked picking on smaller kids. I can't stand bullying. It's senseless adolescent behavior. Primal instinct to assert your dominance over another individual.

If you want to know about the community, I suggest checking out some documentaries. There are several fan made documentaries on YouTube. I recommend watching Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony.

 

Personally, I have had no experiences with bullying because of this in real life. I suppose once you're a grown man as I am, many of your peers are either too invested in odd things of their own or too preoccupied with things of consequence in their lives to care about what you're doing in your spare time. A few people have asked me who I was buying MLP merch for, and were genuinely interested to know more about our fandom and reasons for liking the show once I said it was for me. Somebody grumbled something about "*squee!*s" when I was at BronyCon last year. He just shuffled off in his self-imposed misery and I went back to enjoying myself; no need to get worked up over it.

 

It was the combination of that and the fact i was having a complete mental breakdown.

 

My friends have always been ok with me being a brony. Of course they tease me for it occasionally, but that is sort of expected. I think they just knew I was into different things, because they already knew I was a furry for about a year before I started watching MLP.

 

I was bullied for my appearance, the way I acted, and everything I did. I could probably write a story over it.

 

I was bullied briefly during my first semester of high school freshman year for being chubby and insecure. I retaliated one day and for some dumb reason felt bad for what I said and thought about it when I got home. Apologized the next day and it was all fine after that. I got lucky that a passive method to the bully problem actually worked the one time I needed it. It was a tall blonde chick with an English accent.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, the next 2 years of high school my reputation was more of people thinking I was a drug dealer and wouldn't take sh** from no one when really I was the same person. I wore a black hoody, always kept quiet when I wasn't around friends, and had really long hair that looked bad even after brushing. I was also known for being that guy who hit his teacher in the face with his backpack(complete accident, but true story) All I cared about for those 2 years was Halo 2 on Xbox Live. Senior year was fantastic. No social anxiety. I felt superior to the skiddies. Dressed normal and girls told me I smelled good because of my cologne.

 

I've been pretty lucky so far, but I do catch a few bullets here and there. Most of the time people are just poking fun, other times I'm not so sure. However, I've never been all out bullied for being a brony. Probably because folks think I'm an out of control sociopath, or because they know I'll stand up for myself. I'm pretty sure it's because they think I'm insane, though.

 

For me, bullying is absolutely terrible. I talk about MLP a lot and in school I'm very proud of being a brony. In fact, this happened today.
I was just sitting in English, minding my own business, when someone yells at me to shut up. I told him to make me. We had this stupid old substitute who put me in the corner for "talking." Leaving the class, I was shoved down by a few boys and I popped a bracket off my braces when I hit the ground. (If you have braces, then you know loosing a front bracket hurts like only God knows.). I held it together for about 10 minutes into my next class before totally losing it and embarrassing myself more than I already was. Luckily, I have this absolutely fantastic Social Studies teacher who talked to me after my break down and sent the couple of boys down to the office.
I have many, many, MANY bullying experiences that have been caused because of MLP. But I learn to face it, just like even though Scootaloo is a pegasis that can't fly, she's still happy. Same with being a brony. Just because you have something you enjoy and people don't like it, you have to be happy and ignore those people.

 

I've never really been bullied in a conventional sense aside from a few incidents which I took care of immediately (it got physical and a well-timed swift kick worked wonders) but I've never really gotten much more than a giggle or an odd look. I've actually only gotten kindness about it. I haven't even ever had issues with internet bullying. I think it's mainly because I really don't care what others think about me or my life choices. I wear all kinds of pony stuff to school. A shirt, a wallet with a rainbow dash tail, a pair of headphones with vinyl on them, and lots of wristbands. I also carry around a different blind bag pony in my jacket pocket every day (it has actually been useful for various things) I draw ponies all the time and occasionally find myself subconsciously humming the songs, but still never have had any issues with conventional bullying. Only kind of reverse bullying. I'm not very social so the jerks (would use a much more vulgar word, but don't wanna get in trouble) won't leave me alone on purpose.

 

I got bullied when i was 13, after a couple pf months i got tired of it and called one of the guys that bullied me fat. Then me and my teacher had a talk about how its never okay to insult someone and that should feel bad for what i did, she did not care that he called me gay,girly,housewife,stupid and retard (among other things) but when i called him fat hell broke lose. Since then i have never liked teachers.

 

I do the simple route of "Avoiding contact with people i don't know."

Well that and we have a high population of lunatics in oklahoma city.

 

My girlfriend was bullied for being an atheist. Hang in there.

 

Anyone who bullies anyone else is either insecure or too much of a twerp to deal with his/her own issues. I was bullied before, mainly by people in a Wiccan coven that I joined back in my early days of "spirituality" only to find that most of them were roleplayers without any kind of focus on spiritual development.

I left that sect and joined a hermetic one, where everyone felt like they were XxDARKGOD666xX and should be worshiped due to their "powers". I was bullied there too, for not giving into the idea that trying to be "dark" was the only way for people to take you seriously.


End of the story: people who are bullies because they don't accept someone's beliefs, traits or other personal item are more than likely the most intolerable people you'll ever meet.


P.S. Wiccan covens and Hermetic lodges are both silly and full of people who take themselves far too seriously.

 

It shows the nature and the dangers of being in a community. All communities in whatever form they take have a hierarchy of some kind. Where there's a hierarchy, there's bullying of some sort. It's a way of one person asserting dominance over another. If you get bullied, fight back. Somehow. Submission is a choice.