I went to school around the 2000s and I never heard any slur or insult relating to sexuality.
Maybe it's cause I'm not American so most groups avoided each other until they met for peaceful and cordial co-operation (mainly when a teacher forced the issue) but insults ( that weren't between friends) rarely happened.
You learned to be nice or get beat the fuck up then go to the principals for a talking to for fighting with extra side of talking if you lost the fight. Though most fights ended in draws cause teacher intervention
Yeah, it's because you weren't American. Faggot was way more prevalent in American teen culture at that time than anywhere else in the world that I saw.
Yeah people were calling everyone fag circa 2005. I was really sheltered and didn't even know it had anything to do with sexuality. I just thought it was a generic insult.
Plenty of slurs at mine in the mid-late 00s. Poor whites who were local and poor blacks bussed in from the city so you had a nice equal representation of resentment and desperation.
Blacks had closer schools to attend than ours, but if they didn't bus them in on "minority-to-majority" (M-M) busses our poor white school out in the country would've been completely white which is apparently bad. And yes, civil rights era practices were still going on into the end of the 2000s.
There was general racial tension and usually it was the blacks causing all the trouble, they'd fight amongst themselves and every so often they'd feel this or that white slighted them in some fashion and they'd get a group together to jump the unfortunate white kid in the halls. Bomb threats or lockdowns at least once or twice a year, mesh or clear backpacks, drugs. The government's integration policies just brought the level of everything down. I'm amazed we didn't need metal detectors.
Yeah, this isn't how it was for me (though my ex, also Australian, used to claim her schooling was more like what you describe. Whether that is true or not, I do not know)...
Maybe my schooling was more "Americanised", but I heard faggot, and so much worse, all the time...
Generally words were ok, though. Rumours? They get real nasty. Or the guy who would randomly attack you or steal your shit. I had that. That wasn't much fun...
But it wasn't because I was a "faggot", either, so...
The thing was that most of the traditional groups you see in America media didn't have the physical difference that was often depicted.
The jocks weren't better than the nerds at fighting for example, this made it so throwing insults could very well get you into a brawl.
Rumors I'm not sure about, apart from the romance style rumors I never heard much else.
That said I do expect my school experience to be on the more atypical side of the scale since I went to a fancy private school which was mostly rich kids (it was great for making money from the other children)
I genuinely think that has, in the long run, led me down a seriously dark path…
Because almost everyone that graduated from there “made it”, but I never did. I never could. I tried, really hard, but I’m almost totally done.
I just, for whatever reason, can’t make it. And I fundamentally cannot live with that.
Other than that, yeah, kind of similar…
I guess I was already an outcast by then, though (say, from around eighth/ninth grade), so… ALL those groups hated me. All of them mocked me. None of them really seemed to want me around…
Thus, I guess my experience was just a bit different.
I should have left in 12th grade, and gone somewhere else. I knew shit was going wrong. I did try, but unsurprisingly my parents wouldn’t have any of that…
And now… I seem to be just about the only “failure” I know of from that finishing year (and indeed beyond).
I really can’t live with that anymore.
Sorry to bring things down so much…
I’m just… I’m honestly very done.
And school is… A huge part of how that came to be. Unfortunately…
I went to school around the 2000s and I never heard any slur or insult relating to sexuality.
Maybe it's cause I'm not American so most groups avoided each other until they met for peaceful and cordial co-operation (mainly when a teacher forced the issue) but insults ( that weren't between friends) rarely happened.
You learned to be nice or get beat the fuck up then go to the principals for a talking to for fighting with extra side of talking if you lost the fight. Though most fights ended in draws cause teacher intervention
Yeah, it's because you weren't American. Faggot was way more prevalent in American teen culture at that time than anywhere else in the world that I saw.
So was fucking your mom
I heard yours was a truly global sensation actually. Really earned her travel name, Phalius Hog.
Yeah people were calling everyone fag circa 2005. I was really sheltered and didn't even know it had anything to do with sexuality. I just thought it was a generic insult.
It was used as a generic insult by 99% of the people who used it.
We need to go back.
That is soooooooooo gay...
I went to school in the late '80s and early '90s in 100% white rural America. Nobody was throwing around slurs at all.
Plenty of slurs at mine in the mid-late 00s. Poor whites who were local and poor blacks bussed in from the city so you had a nice equal representation of resentment and desperation.
Blacks had closer schools to attend than ours, but if they didn't bus them in on "minority-to-majority" (M-M) busses our poor white school out in the country would've been completely white which is apparently bad. And yes, civil rights era practices were still going on into the end of the 2000s.
There was general racial tension and usually it was the blacks causing all the trouble, they'd fight amongst themselves and every so often they'd feel this or that white slighted them in some fashion and they'd get a group together to jump the unfortunate white kid in the halls. Bomb threats or lockdowns at least once or twice a year, mesh or clear backpacks, drugs. The government's integration policies just brought the level of everything down. I'm amazed we didn't need metal detectors.
Yeah, this isn't how it was for me (though my ex, also Australian, used to claim her schooling was more like what you describe. Whether that is true or not, I do not know)...
Maybe my schooling was more "Americanised", but I heard faggot, and so much worse, all the time...
Generally words were ok, though. Rumours? They get real nasty. Or the guy who would randomly attack you or steal your shit. I had that. That wasn't much fun...
But it wasn't because I was a "faggot", either, so...
The thing was that most of the traditional groups you see in America media didn't have the physical difference that was often depicted.
The jocks weren't better than the nerds at fighting for example, this made it so throwing insults could very well get you into a brawl.
Rumors I'm not sure about, apart from the romance style rumors I never heard much else.
That said I do expect my school experience to be on the more atypical side of the scale since I went to a fancy private school which was mostly rich kids (it was great for making money from the other children)
Also fancy private school. Also mostly rich kids…
I genuinely think that has, in the long run, led me down a seriously dark path…
Because almost everyone that graduated from there “made it”, but I never did. I never could. I tried, really hard, but I’m almost totally done.
I just, for whatever reason, can’t make it. And I fundamentally cannot live with that.
Other than that, yeah, kind of similar…
I guess I was already an outcast by then, though (say, from around eighth/ninth grade), so… ALL those groups hated me. All of them mocked me. None of them really seemed to want me around…
Thus, I guess my experience was just a bit different.
I should have left in 12th grade, and gone somewhere else. I knew shit was going wrong. I did try, but unsurprisingly my parents wouldn’t have any of that…
And now… I seem to be just about the only “failure” I know of from that finishing year (and indeed beyond).
I really can’t live with that anymore.
Sorry to bring things down so much…
I’m just… I’m honestly very done.
And school is… A huge part of how that came to be. Unfortunately…
In the end, not everyone makes it.
I’m happy to accept that.
I can’t live with it. But I can “admit and accept” it.
In the end we are what we make ourselves, and me (or the idiots in the OP) blaming high school isn’t going to help that.
I failed, and that just… Is. It’s no one’s “fault”, it just is.
Some of us have to fail, and fall, so that others can make it, I guess.
I’m glad you sound like your experience worked out ok, though.