Bullies called him Pork Chop

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This discussion is about a video that I found posted by multiple people through my facebook. I came across it, and decided to watch since it was so highly regarded by others. Some people saying how it brought them to tears, others talking about how awesome it was. Here's a link to the video, so that you can see it for yourself. http://youtu.be/ltun92DfnPY Now, the work that went into it as an art piece is great. Wonderful digital animation, and the narrator does such a great job with his convictions and emotions telling about how everything happened... But for the content, that's just a giant load. It's about a man complaining about how he was picked on throughout his childhood. I was in that position as well. Granted, I was at a good school, with plenty of good students and a good system of teachers, but he never talks about horrific things, like being shot at or getting his teeth knocked out... what he talks about is very similar to what I went through. I was much more overweight then the rest of the kids, in high school, I was around 100 pounds more then the next biggest kid in my grade. Of course I was picked on for this, as well as many other things. But, I was put in the place to stand up for myself. I was good with people, friendly with others, even when I was being tormented, and I had similar kinds of actions with other kids in my school. THIS IS THE WAY YOUNG BOYS WORK. It's along the lines of young boys wanting to pretend they have guns, or bombs, that they throw at eachother, and have fantasies of that kind of violence, and really, it's ok. As we grow up we understand more and more of what is going on, what we should do and shouldn't do, and no part of our fantasies should be held back because it's not agreed upon by others. Telling a young boy how being active and having fun with your friends is a horrible thing, is showing that boy that he is thinking of horrible things. It is showing that he is horrible. It's taking the adults, the mystical, powerful adults, and having them force an un-natural method of thinking onto the children. These are things that are holding young boys back. Why young boys are having significantly lower grades and higher absent percentages then young girls. This is going against our own natural systems that evolved within us over millions of years. They're telling these children, don't be aggressive with your friends (without hurting them) for fun, but be ready to join the military to kill people with assault weapons once you're out of high school. That if you just run to the mystical adults that you can get away with whatever you want, and take down those around you without having to actually work for it. I really see it as a horrible system. The one part that I really did feel bad for the main child involved, was in the beginning when he talked about how he called his grandmother's pork chop a karate chop, and was taken away from his family and told how terrible they were because they didn't see how a child would look at it. They could have asked, "How does your Grandma give you the karate chop?", and when they heard it's served with mashed potatoes and veggies, maybe they'd figure out what he was actually talking about. But they didn't. They directly blamed his great parents, and put a scar on him for life. No matter what, he would have found something to relate that to, forever. Don't just see kids as adults, and don't hold them back from what they want to be doing. Encourage what they can do, tell them they can be whatever they want to work on and get better at over time. Make them know they have to fend for themselves, and help others without just giving them superpowers. This video really bugged me. I'm sure I'll get some flack for having this opinion. I don't think that any child should be tormented so much that they go to suicide, but I think that they should be taught to work harder towards what they want and not just be given everything. Let them know that they can be anything, but they're the ones who are going to have to work at it to achieve it.