You seem to speculate that your bullies were jealous of you because you are more successful with women than they are, or because they were secretly gay. In my case, we had very little parental supervision and everyone bullied one another to some degree. We used to play a game of tag where the person who got caught by ‘it’ would be tied to a tree and lashed with a switch, and the person tied to a tree had to escape in order to become ‘it.’
edit: So, this is supposed to be a cautonary tale against not watching your kids, not “admitting to bullying people smarter than me.” All kids in my grade played this game together. Now that I know what kind of social space I am in, I will no longer be sharing any personal information with this crowd. Thanks for letting me know that you’re nuts, or at least a nonzero number of you.
What?
I didn’t bully people smarter than me, I’m saying this is a game we all played.
… man, whatever. I’m sorry that happened.