What is this called, the elephant skank look?
She’s a lib.
Rule 1 in every lib book is: “It’s somebody else’s fault.
Rule 2 is “The govt can fix it.
Oh, she’s also stupid - but then again, we all knew that, didn’t we?
My best guess...Some gay dude messed with this kid and really screwed him up.
I was bullied by a guy in Junior High until I had had quite enough. While we were running to gym, and he was poking me in the back, I whirled around, gave him a right uppercut to the jaw that sent him flying.
He never bothered me again.
Works like a charm!
“Hey Lady Gaga, Kids Have a Time-Tested Answer for Bullies: Punch Them in the Mouth”
I know it sure worked for me! Once I got punched in the mouth, I stopped bullying! j/k
But seriously, I had a good friend in elementary school through 8th grade named Phil. Skinny kid w/o much ability to defend himself. In the 9th grade, he shows up on day one of freshmen year in a skirt, blouse, make-up, jewelry....turns out he’s a gay/crossdresser. That was the first day he got the *hit kicked out of him.
The next day he showed up in the same crossdressing manner. Now, we lived in a redneck logging town. You just did not do this kind of crap back then and expect nothing to happen to you. He was once again getting his skinny azz thrashed when I’d seen enough.
I stepped in and took out the knee of one guy, hip checked another into the lockers and was going to grab the third when someone kicked me in the back of the head, knocking me out.
When I came to in the nurses office, alongside the ignorant *uck whose knee I destroyed, Phil was sitting there.
I told him that I believed that he had a God given right to wear whatever made him comfortable, but that just because he has a RIGHT to wave the red flag in the face of the bulls, it has proven to be a really stupid thing to do. If he persisted in dressing like that anymore, I was sure as hell not going to defend him again.
He never cross-dressed in school again and left town the day after graduation. Our friendship ended the day of the fight but I like to think that I had a hand in keeping him from getting beaten to death.
Homosexuals have gained great power in eternal victimhood. It is magic the the smallest percentage of bullying is magically enough influence to make every instance of bullying or of something worse an example of how gays alone are being affected. I resent thir emotional approach that leads the simple to believe them. If you are against their tactic you are against ALL people suffering but especially gays.
In their CHOSEN behavior they have to keep convincing people they are somhow the constant victim and it gets their CHOSEN behavior codified in law so it constantly gets protective status. It then becomes that your disagreement with them = hate. Their efforts WILL in time have people in jail for daring to call homosexuality wrong...
Which is most definately IS.
This is thought police stuff. I have never harmed nor worked against any gay I have ever known, but that is for not...disagree with their CHOSEN lifestyle and it = hate and MUST be treated as a crime.
I used a second solution.
My kid REALLY didn’t want to fight, so I encouraged him to become friends with the scrappiest Irish kid I knew. It worked beautifully.
My kid never had to lay a hand on anyone (unless he wanted to, and you know, defending yourself is catching), and the Irish kid had a ton of excuses to get into fights, which he thought was just great.
Aren’t Lady GaGa’s 15 minutes of fame about up? Her album sales are in the tank so she has to use this kind of grandstanding to get attention. Who gives a rat’s posterior what Lady GaGa has to say about anything.
The whole “bully crisis” has been really irritating me. I mean yeah it’s sad when a kid kills themselves, and it sucks if they think they were driven to it by bullies, and bullies do definitely suck. But really how were these kids gonna cope with reality? I mean if some mean dumb kid can make you want to end it how are you going to handle the parts of life that REALLY suck, like being dumped, being fired, and burying your parents. Being bullied gives you the emotional callouses you need for a future life which is guaranteed to have some really bad moments that will make you look back at those years with the bullies as the best days of your life.
What is this called, the elephant skank look?
My guess is, this kid had major problems and parents who didn't care enough to notice and get him some help.
I had a similar problem thru most of school. Aggravated by my parents’ teaching that Christians don’t fight. Which was really difficult as I really wasn’t scared of them or of being hurt, but of course all the other guys thought I was just a coward.
Finally lost it during a cross-country run in gym class and turned on one of the tormentors. He was 50 pounds heavier and uphill at the time, so I don’t have some neat story about beating up the bully.
Both of us got kicked out of school for three days, the school having one of those idiot “no tolerance” policies. But nobody bothered me for the last three years of high school.
It was worth every stitch and then some.
If you dont want to be bullied,learn how to fight. What’s the matter with kids these days?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2011
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www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=65811
News
American Forces Press Service
Days of Bullying as Rite of Passage Are Gone, Official Says
By Elaine Sanchez
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2011 – After years of being bullied in school and online, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer was reaching his breaking point.
The openly gay teenager talked about his experiences in a video he posted on YouTube last spring. “They’d taunt me in the hallways, and I felt like I could never escape it,” the Buffalo, N.Y., native said. “People would just constantly send me hate.”
Afraid of what lay ahead for him in high school, Rodemeyer committed suicide last month.
In the past, bullying was deemed a rite of passage, but that’s not the case any more, a Defense Department official said.
“Children can have terrible consequences from being bullied, whether it’s poor academic success, loneliness, not being able to make friends or just feeling like they can’t go to school,” said Barbara Thompson, director of the Pentagon’s office of family policy, children and youth. “They get sick. Eventually, the greatest tragedy would be suicide.”
Surveys indicate that as many as half of all children are bullied at some time during their school years, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. And children from military families are comparable to their civilian counterparts in this regard, Thompson said, noting they may be even more vulnerable due to frequent military moves.
“As they relocate from school to school, they are the new kids on the block and may be perceived as being different,” she explained.
Children with deployed parents also may stand out as they deal with the anxiety and loss associated with separation from a loved one, she added, particularly when other children from their school don’t share those same experiences.
Hoping to buck the bullying trend, the Defense Department has partnered with the Education Department and a host of other federal agencies to develop new strategies to combat the issue, Thompson said. In September, DOD officials attended a bullying summit hosted by the Education Department. It was aimed at creating a national strategy to combat bullying and to ensure adequate tools and resources are on hand.
Additionally, DOD and the Department of Defense Education Activity recently joined forces to launch the “Stop Bullying Now!” campaign in DOD schools and youth centers.
The campaign, Thompson explained, encourages everyone to take a stand. Whether a parent, teacher or youth center employee, “we have to let [children] know that not only should they stand up and get help from a significant adult, but they also need to stand up for children they see being bullied.
“You can’t be an innocent bystander even though you’re not being bullied yourself or are not the bully,” she added.
Bystanders hold the key to putting an end to bullying, noted Connie Gillette, a DOD Education Activity spokeswoman. “The people who stand by and watch bullying, whether they realize it or not, are actually siding with the bully,” she said. “The sooner you can teach children kindness and compassion and saying something when they know something’s not right, the better.”
The campaign also teaches parents what constitutes bullying and how to recognize the signs of a child who is being bullied or is bullying others.
Bullying is done from an imbalance of power, Thompson explained, has an intent to hurt, and is done repetitively, meaning the same child is bullied by the same person or group of people.
Children being bullied may complain of stomachaches or headaches, she noted, or may start to talk about being teased or develop a new dislike for school. “As adults, we have to be very attuned to children — not only their verbal, but their nonverbal cues,” she said.
Parents undergoing a military move should be especially alert as their children start a new school, Thompson said, noting teachers also should keep an eye out when new kids join their class.
This vigilance is just as important at home, as bullies now have a new weapon with an audience of millions at their disposal: the Internet.
Cyberbullying includes everything from spreading rumors online to sending mean messages out via a cellphone text message.
“Cyberbullying is really insidious, and one that can cause damaging effects to children, because it’s viral. It goes to all of their friends,” Thompson said.
To learn more about bullying prevention, Thompson recommended people visit the Stop Bullying website at stopbullying.gov. The site offers resources and toolkits tailored for parents, teachers and children. Military OneSource also offers a free DVD for children on bullying that’s produced by Trevor Romain, a renowned children’s book author and illustrator.
It will take a concerted effort to put an end to the problem, Thompson noted.
“It’s up to all of us to stop bullying,” she said. “Children have the right to feel loved, to feel that they are incorporated into an environment, that they meet their aspirations, that they live without fear — that is our job to make sure that children have those rights.”
Bullies subjugate those rights, Thompson said. Whether an adult or a child who is a bystander, she added, “we need to be brave and make a stand.”
Related Sites:
Stop Bullying
Department of Defense Education Activity’s Anti-bullying Campaign
Military OneSource
She needs to put some clothes on, shut up and sing.