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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It just means "we don't like you". It doesn't matter if someone thinks I means far or stupid or ugly.

Those kids need the snot beat out of them. 
Your kid needs to grey rock them or lay one of them on the floor, depending on ability. [/quote]

It’s my DD (no idea why I left gender out, sorry) and these are boys who are messing with her. DH and I gave her permission to fight back in a physical way. They deserve a punch to the face or a kick in the crotch.

It disgusts me but I think these are the sort of kids that only understand physical violence. She claims she can’t do it, but in case she is brave enough, I told her to punch them and go straight to the main office and self-report what she did, and we’ll come to pick her up as soon as they call us.[/quote]

Ok knowing she's female- yes they mean fat (whether she is or not). Terrible, I'm sorry OP.[/quote]

:roll:  This is not the 1970s, people no longer use "brick" like "brick house". Please search "bricked up" on Urban Dictionary or Tiktok. It's a very common phrase among young people meaning to have an erection.  People use it literally all the time to describe a guy who is turned on. Calling her a brick is almost certainly a derivative of that, nothing to do with weight, other than I guess an implication that they like whatever weight she's at and view her through a sexual lens. Gross to be sure, when directed at your young daughter, [b]but that's middle school boys for you.[/b] [/quote]

OP here and unfortunately they’re not even in middle school. DD is in 4th grade and these boys are in 4th and 5th grade. I just had to email school about it and already felt violated on her behalf and now that I am seeing this meaning I feel gross for even typing it into an email.

Also, I’m sure you didn’t intend it like that but I feel strongly that even dismissing it as standard middle school boy behavior in a thread like this is the kind of excuse-making and “boys will be boys” stuff that allows boys to keep doing it and gives teachers and parents the excuse to look away and avoid uncomfortable conversations about inappropriate behavior that leads to or is sexual harassment.[/quote]

You seem to have a lot of hang ups about men. These are children, you need to adjust and relax.[/quote]

I like men and boys just fine as long as they’re not targeting my daughter for insults and comments with implied or explicit sexual meaning![/quote]

Look, I am not defending the behavior and have girls too, but these boys have no idea what they are saying. They are young children repeating crap they have  heard, they are not in any way thinking of your daughter sexually. I really hope you did not imply that in your email. Yikes. [/quote]

I didn’t imply anything in my email. I actually said that I didn’t know what the word meant and if it was actual slang, but it was clearly being used as an insult. I’m truly hoping that this is nothing sexualized, but this is a group that also has done things in the past like making groping gestures, talking about big butts, thrusting their crotches and making moaning noises. At some point it’s not just “oh they’re copying things and don’t realize what they’re doing.” They have older siblings and YouTube and I don’t think they’re the innocents we wish they were so we wouldn’t have to think about the implications of all of this. [/quote]

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