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He may not have let his parents know he was gay. I had no clue Cat Cora was gay until I read her article today, and I watch her often!Sorry.. but how on earth can you not know your own grown child is gay...? I never could fathom that. Also, if Tyler's jumping from the bridge was a reaction to THAT (being 'outed')... then he had WAAAAYYYYY more issues going on that the other 2 had anything to do with....
I still do not agree what happened was bullying. If that is so, then anyone could sue anyone else for doing anything, anywhere that embarrassed them or made them upset....
Since I can't edit...forgot to add Janet Jackson and Lady Gaga to above said women who choose to expose themselves to the world...Not a double standard at all.:snooty: When a person chooses to expose themself whether it be the internet, TV, movies, or photos ala Madonna or Brittney Spears, it is their right. It is noone else's right to decide to take that privacy away from those who choose not to act that way!!!
This is a fantastic quote, and I thank you for it. I really do hope the people involved are punished, if only to teach them (and others) this lesson that nobody apparently seems to know anymore.
"...remarkable reputation is being unjustly tarnished by uninformed and incorrect assumptions."—http://abcnews.go.com/US/rutgers-sus...ry?id=11812453
"Out of respect to Tyler Clementi's family, this is not the time for explanations of defenses or justifications to be made public by an attorney."
I certainly agree that it was no harmless prank. But how much responsibility do these 2 have for the young man's suicide? And is the public reacting more harshly towards them because Clementi was gay? Looks that way to me. If they videotaped a young woman (or a hetero couple in bed) w/o her (or their) consent, & did the same thing,, would people still call it 'cyberbullying'? If the hetero woman or man committed suicide afterwards, would it even make the news...? I wonder.
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/nj-senator-calls-for-anti-bully-law
NJ Senator Calls For Anti-bully Law
New Jersey's U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg says he'll introduce legislation requiring colleges to adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment following the suicide of a student whose gay sexual encounter was broadcast online.
And regarding bullying....... that has existed as long as humans have been on the earth. Why all of a sudden are kids jumping off bridges, shooting & hanging themselves over it.. (gay and straight)? Young people used to just deal with it, or fight back (without shooting their classmates), and move on. Why are they offing themselves in record numbers? I mean I'm glad that teachers & parents are trying to be aware ad teach the younger gen to be more humane. But I'm seeing a real slippery slope here in terms of personal responsibility (i.e., 'bully makes kid commit suicide'). When I was a kid, lots of kids got bullied or whatever you want to call it, but they didn't go kill themselves over it. It was just part of life. Most everyone pretty much got treated badly by someone somewhere, at some time.
YES we should teach kids to act right. But why the extreme reactions all of a sudden?
Either suicide- and blaming the bully-- or freaking out and shooting up the place?
Reb, it's because these kids were raised in a different world than we were. I hear ya trust me. If we came home and said someone bullyied us we were told to get back out there and "Go punch that lil s*it in the mouth and it won't happen again". If the person was way bigger than you then ya got told to pick something up and hit them with it. Dirty fighting allowed.
Then it came to the no fighting in the school yard or you'll get kicked out. They preached peace and understanding. If you then took it to the street after school somebody would go tell the school Principal and you were in trouble. All that did was protect the bully. Defending yourself carried consequences.
Add in the internet world. Maybe Joe Smith called my sibling a sissy. Figure maybe twenty people heard that tops. I then went after Joe Smith. He winds up apologizing. Ya shake hands. Today hundreds of people hear Joe Smith call someone a sissy via text, internet, iPhone. On and on. It never ends.
Plus add in the kid that goes by the no fighting rules. I can tell you that was my DD since second grade. My dad instructed her to go punch that lil creep in the mouth. End it. Some kids just won't fight back. My dad was right as you let one person walk on ya the others follow.
That went on until high school. Years of torture. Finally I got a call one day from a nun in my DD's high school. Some chick wrote all over the back of her blouse. My DD told her to quit it. She didn't. At that my DD stood up during the class took the bigggest and heaviest book she had and slammed the girl in the head. She knocked her out of her seat. Big girl on the basketball team too.
The teacher told me later the whole class just gasped and the beotch who wrote on her was stunned on the floor. The scary part was my DD calmly told the teacher she was sorry for interuppting, and to please continue class. Real calm. She told me "Ma, I had enough. I couldn't take it. I snapped".
This isn't our old school bullying. These kids are lethal. Plus once it got out my DD did that finally after about eight years of bullying they left her alone. She wasn't proud of it, but I was proud of her cause I was preaching that for years.
Sorry for the O/T rant. Nope we couldn't video people or record their audio. We couldn't spread nasty rumors with the click of the keyboard. New times.
Good for your DD. Sometimes it is the only thing that stops one of these obnoxious bullys, unfortunately.
My son was bullied for 2 yrs. I found it hard to believe no adult in the school saw it going on. So, I went over there and asked to speak to an administrator and told her I wanted her to call that kid into the office and I had quite alot to say to him. She said she couldnt do that but she would call his parents. It FINALLY stopped.
My friends son was picked on for a long time by a school bully and one day lost it and broke his hand after punching him so hard lol
yes, bullying has always gone on and I sure wish someone would study them, do they have something wrong with their brains? It just doesnt make sense to me why other kids enjoy so much to make other kids lives so miserable.