((Honestly, in your situation, I would've gone Full Beta and just taken it lying down. I'm not much one for fighting or even provoking situations.

Well, you shared a story, I'll tell you some of mine.

Do you know how much it sucks to be "hapa"-- mixed race? You get racism from both sides of the spectrum: to the white kids, I was chingchong chinaman and made fun of. To the rest, I was some sort of über crackermode white infiltrator who was trying to (not very convincingly) pass off as Chinese. Imagine straddling a line, knowing that you're not welcome on either side and that there's nobody like you in the entire school.

Anyways, this one girl in grade school really had something against me. She was the big bully on the playground and I was her chew toy. She'd spread rumors about me, push me around, and just generally make me dread going to school. The best part about it was that as she and her cronies (they never have the gall to bully someone alone, do they?) would shove me around they'd know I'll never raise a hand against them-- after all, she was simply a girl playing a little rough but I would be branded as a boy who hit girls if I retaliated. What else could I do? I have to hand it to her, she played her cards very well. If there's one positive thing that I learnt from that period it's that I have a massive amount of patience for bull$hit. Or maybe I'm just some sort of carpet. Whatever.

And then there was the time in middle school where some of the girls in my class wrote mean things in my yearbook. The best one went along the lines of "you're going to have to bio-engineer a new life form if you ever want to get married". Another girl told me that I was gonna die alone. I literally can't make this up.

...but here I go again. Look at this thread derailment. This post is a mess. I always feel that when I'm talking to people that I'm turning everything I say into a gigantic pissing contest to prove that I deserve people's attention or pity or something.

I hope I'm not coming off as some sort of overly dramatic and angsty super-entitled goblin. I just wanna talk about some cruddy things that happened to me once.))