[ladyjane]

I didn’t see any explanation as to why she was being bullied.

Oh, you think there is a good reason for a young girl to be bullied?

Please tell us what you think a good reason is for them to do this.

[frank ballenger]

Thanks for that.

Blaming or questioning the victim in bullying cases is really a crime in itself.

I was bullied once waiting to go inside my junior high school. A juvenile prison returnee about three years older than his classmates and three of his thug pals for no good reason singled me out at random to surround and beat me a little.

NO ONE STOOD UP FOR ME.

I had been ill with rheumatic fever and several childhood illnesses earlier and still had heart trouble from the damage from the fever so had no chance for any sports or even to take one gym class—ever. So a skinny kid. Part of my “anger issues” today.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Oh, you think there is a good reason for a young girl to be bullied?"

That's an asinine interpretation of my comment. In the same article, there was a thorough description of why a young boy was bullied - his bad teeth and eyeglasses - yet there was no explanation of why the girl was bullied. The "Five W's" of journalism - who, what, where, when, and WHY - still apply. I'm pretty sure that if the girl was being bullied for being LGBTQ, the article would have mentioned it, and my suspicion was that this might have been black-on-white bullying due to the racial composition of the school and the fact that the reason for the bullying was not mentioned. My point was not to establish legitimate reasons for bullying but to raise the issue of possible media bias.