Posted on 09/14/2007 12:25:48 PM PDT by Daffynition
CAMBRIDGE — Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.
The Grade 9 student arrived for the first day of school last Wednesday and was set upon by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up.
The next day, Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price decided something had to be done about bullying.
"It’s my last year. I’ve stood around too long and I wanted to do something," said David.
They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday — even the bullied student had one.
"I made sure there was a shirt for him," David said.
They also brought a pink basketball to school as well as pink material for headbands and arm bands. David and Travis figure about half the school’s 830 students wore pink.
It was hard to miss the mass of students in pink milling about in the lobby, especially for the group that had harassed the new Grade 9 student.
"The bullies got angry," said Travis. "One guy was throwing chairs (in the cafeteria). We’re glad we got the response we wanted."
David said one of the bullies angrily asked him whether he knew pink on a male was a symbol of homosexuality.
He told the bully that didn’t matter to him and shouldn’t to anyone.
"Something like the colour of your shirt or pants, that’s ridiculous," he said.
"Our intention was to stand up for this kid so he doesn’t get picked on."
Travis said the bullies "keep giving us dirty looks, but we know we have the support of the whole student body.
"Kids don’t need this in their lives, worrying about what to wear to school. That should be the last thing on their minds."
When the bullied student put on his pink shirt Friday and saw all the other pink in the lobby, "he was all smiles. It was like a big weight had been lifted off is shoulder," David said. No one at the school would reveal the student’s name.
Travis said that growing up, he was often picked on for wearing store-brand clothes instead of designer duds.
The two friends said they didn’t take the action looking for publicity, but rather to show leadership in combating what they say is frequent bullying in schools.
Kick the bullies a— and that will stop it too ...
In the early to mid-80s, men work pink dress shirts (or pink stripes) with white collars and it was fashionable.
Reminds me the scene in “Rudy” where the entire team volunteers to sit out so Rudy can suit up for the big game.
Yeah, the sissies did.
Actually, it has been suggested by the APA that violent hostility to homosexuality is a sign of repressed homosexual tendencies... take that for what it's worth, Mr Bully...
If you’re going to go to the trouble of raising a mob, you may as well enlist it in the beatdown of the bullies and not just in wearing pink.
Its one thing if Joe and John agree to meet in the schoolyard after class to "work things out." Its quite another when Joe, Frank, and Pat gang up on John unprovoked and proceed to blindly assault him.
Its amazing what the scumbags who went to my elementary school got away with...
The bully wouldn’t last too long here on campus. Lots of guys are wearing pink now that preppy has come back.
Worked when I was a kid ... but there's been a crap load of wussification in our culture since then.
There is no reason why you should take my word for this. Back in the days when ladies had a home journal (in 1918) the Ladies Home Journal wrote: “There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.”The Sunday Sentinel in 1914 told American mothers: “If you like the color note on the little one’s garments, use pink for the boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention.” Some sources suggest it wasn’t until the 1940s that the modern gender associations of girly pink became universally accepted. Pink is, therefore, perhaps not biologically girly. Boys who were raised in pink frilly dresses went down mines and fought in World War 2. Clothing conventions do change over time.
YEP! WORKS EVERYTIME! AND EVEN IF YOU LOSE, THEY WON’T BOTHER YOU ANYMORE IF YOU LET THEM KNOW IT’S GONNA HURT..............
That worked in my highschool, mnay moons ago. The jocks met the hoods in a park nearby and that was the end of the bully-boys for the year.
The APA and homo lobby say any opposition to any part of the homosexual agenda is repressed homosexuality.. ;)
Actually, in the attorneys office, there were a number of men wearing these shirts with their suits. They didn’t look bad either.
In the early to mid-80s, men work pink dress shirts (or pink stripes) with white collars and it was fashionable.
Dating myself but there was a time when “pink and black” was all the rage!
I would have said, "And just how would you know that?".........
Thanks!
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