[ SECRET POST #2125 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2125 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one who thinks the bullying has become the new national hysteria?

[(Anonymous)]

No, but I'm glad it's getting more attention. With all the new stories coming out fairly frequently about kids killing themselves due to being bullied (most recently, I remember hearing about a 14 year old girl who slept with some boys in her school and threw herself in front of a train because everyone kept calling her a slut), I hope the increasing campaigning against bullying will finally pressure some schools into actually fucking enforcing their anti-bullying policies (I remember reading an article not to long ago about a school district that had like five or so kids commit suicide because they were relentlessly bullied for being gay and no one at the school did shit. Like, they were literally bullied right in front of teachers and they did nothing. I think one of the teachers even joined in at one point)

[(Anonymous)]

http://gawker.com/5954977/slut+shamed-staten-island-teen-tweets-i-give-up-before-jumping-in-front-of-subway-train

I think this is the article you read about the girl.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that was the one. It's so awful :(

[corvigryph]

Wow. The amount of victim blaming in the article comments is depressing.

"Don't blame the bullies it makes the victim out to be a martyr and does a horrible disservice to the victim and others like her"

"The bigger issue is how much of a slut she was being"

I.. just... I'm done with humanity. Officially done.

[nina_vendredi]

I think the five kids killing themselves weren't all from the same school, but they were all from Michelle Bachman's district.

[(Anonymous)]

They were all from the school district with the asinine "neutrality" policy.

[nina_vendredi]

Ah, yeah, when you look at Bachman's district, it's a much higher number http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/michele-bachmann-teen-suicide

[(Anonymous)]

Old district or presumptive district? Since the redistricting, she's having to run in a district where she does not actually live, because she now lives in a district in which she could not possibly win.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I hope she gets defeated. Actually, I hope she and Wisconsin's governor are caught having an illicit affair and snorting cocaine.

[(Anonymous)]

I live in Wisconsin and this would make my day.

[nina_vendredi]

Old district, the article's from 2011, and refers to just the two years previous.

[(Anonymous)]

And this is a bad thing why?

"Oh, kids will be kids" has been trivializing bullying for ages. Now people are finally waking up to the reality of what real bullying can do to kids. It's awful that it was a rash of suicides that brought this to national attention, but it's a start. Now people won't dismiss real problems so easily.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a difference between a problem getting attention and it being a hysteria. If it's getting attention, then the response is generally more rational, well thought out. With hysteria? Not so much. The atmosphere hysteria creates makes it easy for kids to lie and say a kid they didn't like bullied them just to 'get back' at the kid/pick on the other child *because* they don't like them and/or for something completely unrelated to bullying.

So yes, something being a hysteria can be a bad thing [and hell, in this case, could easily turn into a different form of bullying.]

Also, people will continue to dismiss real problems even though they pay attention to *one* that they'd been ignoring.