Anti-bullying message

[lyonessnyc]

 I am wearing purple today in honor of *all* bullying victims. I feel that by singling out only the gay ones we do them a disservice by pointing out a large part what made them insecure in the first place. I don't think that sexual orientation should matter except to the one(s) a person is sexually involved with

Comments

[mevennen]

I don't know. I stopped bullies in my school by suddenly turning on them, but that was a dynamic that worked in a particular social context at a particular time. I learned that terrifying people who tried to bully me was the only way to make them stop, that they are cowards, and that their pack would respond to retaliation. But sometimes people and packs don't, and I don't know what you do then.

I am very sad that you got suspended for fighting back. I feel that this was a betrayal of you.

[lyonessnyc]

I know, it's been months since you posted this.

Interestingly, the girl in question (the frenemy who got me suspended when she jumped me in the hall) and I are now FB friends, and she's told me that what she did that day has haunted her since high school. I told her that I'd forgiven her, obviously, since I accepted her friend request, and she said she was grateful for that, but still felt bad for what she did.

Wow.

[wldrose]

if you build in the kid a respect for themselves and others and help them demonstrate it when they have to let the right people know whats going on it will be seen as a logical extension of who they are rather than a way for them to gain favor and that will take much of the tattle tale out of it.

ash

[handlebar605]

I don't know, but it seems to me as if an Average person's fear of the unknown, can include those who find it easier to learn things in school, since _They_ must be _Weird_ if they can learn shit like that and Everyone Knows that the Abnormal Should be left out in the wilderness to Die!

the one time I got into a fight, was because I responded to bullying. I didn't get jumped, but I was challenged to a fight or maybe I did the challenging (it was over 40 years ago on Long Island). After that, I just practiced not responding. I ended up getting trained to operate Naval Nuclear Power Plants in the Navy.