When I was a teenager i was verbally abused and groped by much older men on various occasions. I remember being sniped at by girls to make themselves feel better too. Guess they saw an easy target.
One time though in my 20s I had joined my sister on a day out to a local theme park with our kids. Her son has a cerebral palsy and we like to celebrate the anniversary of his first steps (at one point his doctors said he would never walk)
So, I am in a queue with my daughter and nephew for a ride they wanted to go on and out of nowhere the teenage girls behind us start taking the piss out of me being fat. I am fat but they were being very nasty. I said nothing. They kept being nasty. My daughter asked me if I was ok. I smiled at her, winked at my nephew and said nothing. The teenagers kept on being nasty.
After we rode the rollercoaster and had met my sister at the exit of the ride I watched the teenagers go back to what must have been their parents unpacking a lovely picnic lunch. I turned to my sister and asked if I could use her sons disability for revenge purposes. My sister laughed in a wtf way and said err ok...
Then I approached the family and told them that their darling offspring had spent the queue time taking the piss out of my disabled nephew. The Mum started having a go at the girls and immediately packed up their lunch and told them she was so sick of their bitchiness that they were going straight home. The teenagers got very upset but couldn't exactly say "shes lying, we were being horrible to her because shes fat"
I don't even feel slightly bad about it. My daughter and nephew thought it was hilarious and I hope it taught them that they don't have to be an easy target like I was when I was younger.
If someone is mean, I see nothing wrong with playing dirty. Hopefully the next time those teenagers were tempted to be mean, they thought twice about it...