Because they’re not “people” Yosemite, they’re children with IQs not any larger than they’re shoe sizes.
A true adult doesn’t behave in this way. And to whomever said “I don’t believe in ‘fighting back’ because I abhor violence”…Fighting back doesn’t have to mean physically.
There are many things a person can do that may help. If you’re still in school, the pen is mightier than the sword. A well worded “shaming” article in the school newspaper. Letting people know that geeks and overweight people are just people too. I remember seeing a tv show on MTV where a beautiful, slim young cheerleader spent a day or two dressed up as an overweight girl and spent time with a student at another school (I think) that was overweight. At first the two veiwed each other as if each, the other, were from some other planet.
I think a lot of it is that, just ignorance. They don’t understand the other person’s “affliction” so to speak, and they’re too stupid to try to on their own, so instead, their immaturity, coupled with their low IQ’s and inability to see beyond the ends of their noses gangs up with others who are likeminded. Then, you have moron mob mentality.
That’s when the slushie throwing “slush bys” happen. And, I don’t know if it will make you feel any better, but the same one’s who moo at the overweight girls are the ones who howl and make perverted suggestions to any other female they consider reasonably “doable”.
As to the poor geeky boys, well thank goodness for Bill Gates, isn’t the tendency to look down upon them in HS much less prevalent these days? If not, well, I refer you back to the “moron mob mentality”.
You have to remember, however “grown up” their outsides, these aren’t adults, they’re slobbering, knuckledragging moronic children inside.
Develop the ability to icily cut them off with a look, or a well timed subtle insult, one they’ll have to think about and won’t get until you’re long gone. And yes, there are books for that. Great putdowns I think is the name of one.
I personally borrow some from the great brains here. (not that I ever get to use them damnit, most people in my world don’t stoop so low as to deserve it, though I’d STILL be grateful for a blue language filled rant to paste on the doors of the lazy bums who won’t clean up after their pets, but that’s another rant :D).
Hugs Yosemite