[ichabod1]

That happens, but I think more often it's cooler to be friends with a victim. Shows you're seeeensitive.

[Alouette]

It's cool to be a "victim," and it's doubleplusuncool to be an "oppressor."

[wintertime]

That happens, but I think more often it's cooler to be friends with a victim. Shows you're seeeensitive.

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Perhaps it is merely safer to identify with homosexuals. If the student doesn't, the faculty will find ways to ridicule the student publicly, and lower their grades, and the students will make life a living hell.