in all male homogeneous boys schools the little bullying that occurred was almost always "reasonable" and corrective and even the odd one or two actual gays were treated with reasonable respect because they shut the fuck up and acted like normal human beings. the only thing that was close to "real" bullying was the occasional (metaphorical) ball-busting and you'd generally only get that if you could either definitely handle yourself or really couldn't and were just too sensitive (and even then it was generally stopped before it "went too far")
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