Keep Up the Good Fight, Ladies. You’re Winning.

When I was a kid, there were boys at lunch and recess who were natural bullies but were too scared to bully the other boys, knowing they’d get a beat down. So instead, they bullied the girls. And they took out all their shame and cowardice on these girls by getting too physically rough with them, be it in sports, tag, or in whatever other physical activity the girls were engaged in.

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Even in grade school, the rest of us boys instinctively knew this was wrong. And when the teachers and recess monitors didn’t step up to do their jobs, we grade school boys took it upon ourselves to correct the bullies’ behavior towards the girls in whatever ways we felt appropriate.

My,

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