Verbal slander of children and its effectiveness (poopie pants!!)

[Jade]

I realize that I have created a great number of threads having to do with childhood and growing up... and here is another. (hee hee)



I made a very advanced breakthrough/realization/theory about the development of the infamous "childhood insult" sometime last year and thus far... I feel my theory still holds true, well as far as childhood is concerned anyway.

In my years of working with children, one thing was apparent..... if you use the right insult, feelings are going to get hurt and it is a big deal. So, here is my summary for "childhood" insults nowadays.



It is all based on the system of KEY WORDS... read and learn! ( )


- So, really really early on in life, I noticed that most insults have to do with "PANTS." Yes that's right.

To sight some examples: stinky-pants, poopie-pants, smartie-pants... you got that so far?

- Then, as they grow a little older... somehow it smarts just a little bit more when we talk badly about someone's "HEAD." (No, no THAT head you pervert!)

Some more examples: stinky-head, poopie-head, stupid-head, etc.

- And finally, right before the teens, we get really mean and start talking about "BUTTS." Yep, you got it, butts.

- A few more examples if I may: stupid-butt, stinky-butt, poopie-butt.....


Now if you ask, me I happen to find those early childhood ones to be the most insulting... I mean, if you called me a "stupid-butt" I would go, okay, well if you think my ass doesn't have much intelligence and is just there to look pretty, hmm you're probably right!

And if they called me a "stinky-head" I would think they were a little confused about where B.O. came from.

However, when someone calls you a "poopie-pants," those are fightin' words! I mean, to imply that you cannot control your BMs!! (bowel movements) Hmph, truly insulting indeed!


THEN we move on to adulthood! (just lots of bad words and stuff really.....stuff about fucking, mothers, and asses).




**My question is.....

*****WHAT was the WORST thing someone could call you (or did) when you were growing up.. what was the ULTIMATE insult?

(When I wanted to piss off my little sister... hehe .. I called her a "bratty-cakes." *evil grin*)

 

[Expertise]

Someone told me I was channeling Roland yesterday....that was pretty f@#$ing insulting.

But when I was growing up....hmmm. Anything to do with "stupid" was enough to ensure a violent response. I wasn't, and even at an early age detested stupidity. So any of the "stupid-combos" (stupid-head, stupid-ass etc.) ensured that fur was gonna' fly.

 

[Jade]

Someone told me I was channeling Roland yesterday....that was pretty f@#$ing insulting.

But when I was growing up....hmmm. Anything to do with "stupid" was enough to ensure a violent response. I wasn't, and even at an early age detested stupidity. So any of the "stupid-combos" (stupid-head, stupid-ass etc.) ensured that fur was gonna' fly.

ROTFLOL about the Roland thing!! (hahhahha)

And what do you mean "fur?"

 

[Expertise]

No matter how hard I try to rise up from the gutter..someone drags me right back down.

Glad it was you...welcome back

The fur thing is simply local "color" Jeff could now explain after his lesson yesterday.

Wow i'm glad your back and that the dogs are ok!

Couldn't knock the smile off my face with a sledgehammer.

 

[Endlessly]

Okay. These aren't really from when I was YOUNG, these are from middle and high school, but they always got to me like nothing else in the world.

-In middle school, if anyone told me I was just like my father-- And my best friend did that once-- I would freak out. My father was a cruel, sadistic man during that time of my life and I still have nightmares about it.

In high school, there were two:

-Child Prodigy. That doesn't sound too bad, but the nickname was given to me by a guy who was a junior my freshman year.. He stumbled on the fact I skipped a grade somehow, and used to call me Child Prodigy.. Ask me to spell stuff backwards and do simple math problems in my head. He also used to taunt me about words I chose to use or the way I constructed my sentences.. The reason the nickname bothered me so much is that I was always highly sensitive about skipping a grade. I hated to answer when people asked me why.. And I always felt like I was too stupid for them to have skipped, and everyone knew it.

-Demonspawn. It was given to me by my drama 7-8 class my senior year; we were doing a storytelling unit, and I made the mistake of choosing The Countess Kathleen, a wonderful Irish story about a woman with a pure heart who sells her soul to the devil to save the people in her province. She dies soon after, and God declares that no woman so selfless would ever go to hell. So the province is saved, and Kathleen ascends into heaven. Everyone thought the story was sick. So, living in Montana-- where long black hair, even if it IS natural, makes you a goth-- the sunday school teacher who has always been hypersensitive about how she falls short of righteousness is daily reminded that she's the child of Satan.

Side note. The last project of the year was screen-testing in our film unit.. We got to choose any 30-second clip we wanted, and I chose one from the full-length musical I wrote when I was a freshman, a little snippet about always being alone, even in a crowd of people. I worked on it like crazy.
They got out the little scene board (I think that's what it's called) where someone writes in the person's name, the type of shot, and the take number, claps the little arm down (all in front of the camera, you know what I'm talking about) and yells "ACTION!" I started into my monologue, and everyone started laughing hysterically.

A girl who'd hated me the entire year had wrote 'Demonspawn' instead of my name on the scene board. I excused myself, went to the bathroom, and cried my eyes out.

 

[scylis]

i've been called far too many things to chose just one...
there's:
idiot
loser
fag
retard
queer (used as early as around 10 years of age)
wussy
spock (i liked Star Trek, ok?)
snot bucket
butt breath
big ears (i got big ears.. probably contributed to being called "spock", too)
H. Ross Perrot (sp?)
fart nocker
boy genious
and on and on and on...

kids can be aweful cruel sometimes... :,-<

 

[Aranian]

Funny. People called me spock in gradeschool too. Not because I liked startrek though.

 

[scylis]

got big ears, too??

 

[Aranian]

No, I think it had something to do with my vocabulary and serious demeanor at that age.

 

[KillerMuffin]

The most insulting thing I've ever been called was Whitney. Not only am I not Whitney, I don't look or feel a thing like her. Think Willowy Whitney and Brick Shithouse Muffin. (I heard thats a compliment).

Hey, he had a 69 Charger, I was 17 and highly susceptible.

While he was searching for the keys I'd so callously tossed over the embankment and yelling at me in a soprano voice, I took off across the field at a dead run with his carberator.

Ain't lust grand?

 

[*Eve*]

The ultimate fighting words when I was a kid and this is universal I think is "Yo' Mama!"

 

[Earthgoddess]

hhmmm

okay my sister used to call me Rhino Rump and Boobs Laroo,
when you develope early and are very self concious those hurt...the worst nick name we could call each other as children was Booger Eater-still riles me up,must be a Balto Thing...and no I never did eat them-EVER...

 

[Never]

Hmmmm. I don't really remember what they called me back then.
Wait. They used to call me Canoe. It was more of a nickname though.. Um. Someone called my mother a donkey once, she didn't do it again after I had her eating gravel.. Damn, I seriously don't believe people had any evil names for me. Oh, well.

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Just another Saturday night..

 

[Xander]

There's too many to single one out, in my case as well. But they all hurt.

Miscolored freak!
Brownie!
Four eyes
Huge nose nic.
Shit(insert any choosen word) face, head, eater. etc.
Freakshow!
Idiot
Loser
Retard
Fuckup
fag

And the list could go on forever.
Ah well, at least I can look at some of the people saying these things, today. And conclude.
I got a job, I have a carreer, I have a lovelife, I made something out of my life.
While most of then today are drunks, unemployed and live in a hole in ground. And the only lovelife they have, is a very intiment relationship with a blowup sheep.

Ahhhh sweet sweet revenge.

 

[Rosebud]

i hate it when people call me ma'am....I much rather be called a bitch

 

[Bonnie Wee Lassie]

I think as a child the worst thing I was called is poopy-head. But now as an adult the worst thing you could call me is a slut and mean it seriously. I hate being called that not that I am called it. Someone I hate said it once and I saw red. took everything in my power to walk away. Now if you call me bitch that's ok but I perfer Queen Bitch.

Bonnie