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He's always wore sketchers. Like since he was 4. Recently, he got really emotionally taking about shoes he wanted for middle school. He said if he doesn't get Nikes he's going to get teased. Great fucking marketing work Nike.

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[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Happened to me. Got Nikes, got teased because they were not a good enough model. Kids are monsters.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, he's not getting made fun of for his shoes. They're just a convenient target of ridicule. Son is about to learn a life lesson.

I'm sorry. People are shit.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Well understood. His Mom was poor and bullied in school. So much so that she brings it up from time to time. She quickly bought him the shoes. I'm going to work on getting him Vans or Hookas in the future.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is he gonna smoke the kids in his Hokas or is he gonna smoke with the other kids behind the bleachers with his hookah?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 42 minutes ago

Both, it's a dual-purpose item!

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I always thought they were old man shoes. LOL 🤣. I'm I the bully?

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

It's okay I always hated Sketchers too. They were the shoe that you buy if you want to get bullied. Guess that's still true today.

Well I'm in late 30s and high school was 20 years ago at this point, so I caved and finally bought a pair. Settled on their knockoff version of the Nike Flex and I couldn't be more pleased. They're just as comfortable as the real Flex, and 5x cheaper too. That said, part of me is still embarrassed to be wearing Sketchers. I wish the logo was easier to remove...

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

At all the schools my kids went to.... Nobody cares. The kids really don't give a shit what other kids are wearing. In some ways it's bizarre given that wasn't the case when I was a kid. But in many ways it's great. I rarely ever hear of bullying, kids just are themselves.

Of course thats woke, because they actually speak to the kids and tell them to consider others and will not tolerate intolerance. So I expect schools like these are few and far between.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, working on it

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Kids being kids I guess

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Man I went to a very affluent school and no one gave a shit about what sneakers we had. Unless you had Heeley's of course. ZOOM!

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Probably because it was an affluent school. In a school with more poor kids, stuff like this is their little chance at feeling higher status than their peers even though it's all imaginary based on marketing.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Ha ha, I'm pretty old so, British Knights and Pro Wings were cursed shoes

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Is this still happening? It was happening 45 years ago, ffs.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

It also happened to me 20 years ago so I guess nothing changes. If you wore Sketchers, you were going to get bullied.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nowadays it’s about who has the most “designer” clothing, I wouldn’t call a Yeezy designer.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 hours ago

Since I can recall.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The specific request is kind of interesting - when I was a kid, everyone had to wear Nikes or get teased. However for my kids, Nikes were always out.

Fads always come in cycles

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

British Knights were the cursed shoes when I was a kid.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 160 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

It's not a Nike thing. It's a kid thing. Kids are dicks, sorry

[–] DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip 41 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (6 children)

Is that why Apple has got the US by the balls because people want to avoid the dreaded green bubble in iMessage? I'm not from the US so that might be me misunderstanding the situation, but I've been told that even many adults in the US view that as a valid reason to avoid anything that's not an iphone, because of some social stigma attached to the green bubble.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

As an American I’m still not convinced.

Apple successfully sold themselves as a better choice, the “in”thing - to adults. Most adults I know have iPhones and the ones who don’t seem self-conscious about it. It might have partly to do with Android phones originally sold as the budget alternative. We’re the shallow ones.

Kids can take their cues from adults: they see iPhones as the “better”, more desired choice. But also take it to the next level, with teasing and bullying.

I find it hard to believe anyone cares about the color of text bubbles, especially since kids don’t use iMessage, despite all the media making that claim. It’s just an excuse, but the social stigma is real

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 6 hours ago

Because they learn from their families, usually. I remember the uppercrust side of my family kicking dirt from a family member's grave onto his second wife's grave. So classy.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 22 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

When I was a kid, there was a phase where everyone was obsessed with red flannel. Went on for like 3 months.

Imagine a pro dominantly black/Latino school in the hood where we're all dressing up like Al Borland from Home Improvement.

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[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Buy him Hokas and have him tell his friends to eat shit.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I love this response

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 24 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I went through the same Nike crisis when I was in middle school. Had to have them because my friends had them. Instead I got to joke about my "genuine imitation Nikes" from Kmart.

It's painful for kids that want to fit in because because they don't have the wider and wiser perspective that most of us do as adults.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

That's the thing, crap kids are still going to bully.

[–] kiagam@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Man you have way more faith in adults than I do

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 52 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

I got teased for my shoes. I got better shoes, I got teased for my jacket, I got a better jacket. So then they just made shit up to tease me about.

I saw the fucker that bullied me relentlessly for all three years in middle school about 10 years later. He was pounding stakes in the ground setting up for a carnival. He stopped me in apologized which was kind of surprising. I gave him an absolutely hollow but convincing thanks and what about my day.

I did a little light internet stalking, turns out he's vocal that can't keep a job, construction companies fire him for "no reason" and he's now down to whatever local company will hire him for physical labor. The only truly sad part is he has multiple children with multiple women and will not own up to any of them.

Though, I really suppose I owe a lot of who I am to the hell he put me through. Insults mean fuck all to me and I can ignore stress in a bad situation and make solid decisions.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 hour ago

He chose Hookas instead of Hoka

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

My grade school bully is serving life in prison for attempted double homicide. IIRC he’s also a sex offender.

Obviously the decisions he made as an adult are his responsibility, but honestly I feel bad for him. He didn’t have much of a chance. His home life was terrible, and he took it out on those around him. He had no positive role models in his daily life besides those at his school, who were always punishing him because he couldn’t conform to a world utterly foreign to his own where people weren’t constantly shitty to one another, and the school didn’t have any better idea how to handle him. The kid had no support. His father was in and out of jail/prison, his mother was overwhelmed. He fell through the cracks.

It’s no surprise he turned out a piece of shit.

That doesn’t excuse his actions. Plenty of people come from difficult origins and are good people leading decent lives.

But I do pity him.

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No matter if you end up getting him a pair or not. Be sure he understands that such things as bullying people for having the “wrong” shoes is shallow clique nonsense and he should be better than that.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago

That's really not fair or helpful to the poor kid. It may be nonsense but it's very real and has a very real impact on his life. Those little monsters truly will go out of their way to make him miserable and sad as it may be keeping a low profile and reducing the number of things they can pick on can be a way not to be targeted. The idea that of telling him he "should be better than that" is just adding to the burden he's already carrying of being forced to coexist with those little sociopaths. Is it somehow his fault?

I got bullied in school for having reasonably priced shoes instead of Nike Air Max. Kids are pathetic.

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