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October 27, 2010
The string of suicides among gay teens in the past month shows us it could be an even longer road to the end of homophobia.
And I'm kinda surprised.
I attended high school over a decade ago, and my school had a LGBT Pride club that was just getting started. I never heard anyone bashing the club or bullying gay students (although I'm sure it happened, unfortunately). Anyway, that was years ago. I figured that by now, well into the 21st century, schools and teens would be exponentially more accepting of (or at least completely disinterested in dissing) gay students and people. Pop culture-...
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October 4, 2010
We're way beyond the Leave It to Beaver era of bullies who steal milk money and pull ponytails. While those kinds of bullies surely still exist, modern bullies are a new breed of terrible.
You've probably heard the recent news about cyberbullying following the suicides of cyberbully victims Tyler Clementi (a Rutgers University freshman) and Phoebe Prince (a Massachusetts high schooler). My heart breaks over these stories.
But have you heard about the newest form of peer harrassment: allergy bullying? That's right – kids who tease their classmates with allergies by taunting them with...
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