Every time we watch an old movie from our youth, much like this Karate Kid thing, Javalina sits and gives rolling commentary which I love and he does make me laugh, reminding me of my brother who could talk shit through almost anything. His biggest beef though is that high school life is always too fake. He insists that there are no such things as cliques and/or bullies that run rampant and control the schools. He had the same reaction to Revenge of the Nerds, when we sat and watched that awhile back.
We keep joking with him that he doesn't see the bully thing maybe because he is the bully, joking with him. He says no, he likes to mess around with his friends testing themselves on who is stronger and stuff like that, but he doesn't go after kids he doesn't know. Like he says, the linemen like to knock each other over even in the classrooms when they would get some free time. We met his science teacher and she was a huge fan of football and Javalina would say that most of the linemen were in his science class and they would do feats of strength in class, but like he says, if you aren't a jock, it isn't even fair for me to try and tackle you because you just can't even hold yourself. Basically, he can only challenge another ram of equal strength otherwise, it is not even fun.
Aside from his football buddies, which seem to like playing grab-ass and knocking each other over, he has his friends of "goofy" kids, the ones that aren't "athletes." He protects these kids, which he has known since Kinder and first grade and he might tease them a little bit, but he is the first one that would protect them if anybody gives them a hard time.
Even the bullying that girls do, in the Cobra Kai series, there is a big girl and the "hot girls" tease her by taking pictures of her and putting a pig snout and making fat girl comments, he insists that it seems ridiculous that something like that would happen. He doesn't see the benefit of wasting energy making fun of a person, I agree with him, but I think it can happen. Maybe not blatantly like it happens in the movies, but I believe this does happen.
Luckily, I grew up in a city with a shitty football team when I was in high school, how could they be bullies when they couldn't figure out how to win games? Sure, I was a band nerd, but the band was a good one so I chose to stick with the winning program. I guess there is something to be said about all this progressive move against bullying in schools that my kid doesn't really get to experience it, but because it has been eliminated on the grand scale, delicate kids still invent it in their heads in the form of taking words out of context and being insulted, or blowing minor things out of proportion. That is another blog for another day though.
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