Posted on 03/21/2014 11:22:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Earlier this week, I wrote about a 9-year-old North Carolina boy who was being teased at school for wearing a “girlie” My Little Pony backpack to school. Administrators at Hyatt Elementary initially tried to solve the problem by telling Grayson Bruce to not wear his beloved backpack, telling him was a “trigger for bullying.”
But then a social media firestorm ensued. Grayson’s mom, Noreen Bruce, launched a Support for Grayson Facebook page, attracting over 70,000 fans, and people all over the world wrote in messages telling the boy that his love for My Little Pony is awesome. Men posted images of themselves holding pony dolls. Media outlets across the country picked up the story and it sounds like the folks over at Hyatt Elementary heard the outcry because they’ve changed their minds and are letting Grayson wear his Rainbow Dash backpack to school.
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No, I usually let the other person make the first move. They always get that courtesy. But if you perceive it is not a good idea to cross me, I'd say that is a fair assessment. Bend, bend, bend and then comes tenacious.
You seem a bit confused. Defending your kid and not accepting bullies is not being a bully. Nice try though.
I agree that parents can step in too quickly and there is value to them working it out. They don't learn if they don't work through issues. I think the discussion, though, is about when it goes past that point.
I don't know how much of this is about the show and how much is for some other purpose. The parents knew what would happen. Seems to me they intended this to happen for some other reason. Could it be the "gay rights" nonsense?
The show doesn't have any sex of any kind in it. And so far, there have been no encoded messages or any kind. I would have noticed if there were.
I don't know about "PC incorrect," but it was incorrect. According to the article, he lives with his mother and father.
Do you stereotype much?
Growing up my parents never knew what happened in school. My brothers an I handled any issues. I was teased until I learned to fight back. The teasing lasted exactly one week. I went ballistic on one kid who was my tormentor. After I beat the stuffing out of him after school I had no other problems after that.
Note-I monitor what the lil ones watch on the tube. Anything suspicious gets banned. If I had a boy he damned sure would not be watching any faggy Lil Pony Shows.
I know it sounds odd, but bullies do perform a service of sorts...No mistake, they bully because they like to bully, but in their own weird way they feel they are acting like social police, keeping order in school.I can't agree. I've never known a bully to feel that way at all. Every bully I have ever known has later been a criminal, raping, murdering, robbing, assaulting - I've never known a "good bully". Christian people lead by example; we do not bully people into conforming. Bullying is unChristian.
I’m not sure I see the connection between dressing boys up in dresses and letting a 9 y.o. boy carry his favorite backpack to school. Please don’t take offense, but if the backpack had been a looney toons pack with a picture of one character whacking another on the head, and the kid was told he couldn’t bring it because it was fomenting violence, the opinions here would be diametrically opposite to what they are now, and the hue and cry would be about nanny-staters not respecting the kid’s freedom and individuality. As far as I can see, that’s irrational.Ayup. The rule to follow is "What is good for the goose is good for the gander."
Um, my son at age 18 really likes My Little Pony. I never put him in dresses or anything, and considering some of the text messages he has been grounded for, he’s very into women.Not surprised. When I was a kid, it was Jem and the Holograms, or Droids (and let's face it, the R2-D2 and C-3PO are a bit wussy), or Thundercats, or even Pound Puppies. It's an interest, really, nothing more.
If he wasn't doing anything wrong then I'd tell him to defend himself...I think kids should try to solve their own problems.I can understand why you would want that, but don't do that these days. When I was in high school in the early 90s, "defending yourself" would get the BOTH of you expelled - and it's even worse today. In my dad's day, they just took you to gym, gave you boxing gloves, and let you work it out. But nowadays, you're looking at your kid being in juvie till he's 18 for self-defense.
Please tell me that’s a joke.
No idea where you grew up but where I did the vast majority of the teasing (they call it bullying these days) was from friends. Everyone got their turn. It was rare for someone you didn’t know to say or do anything to you once you were out of first or second grade.
Wear something stupid and you were hounded all day even the teachers got in on the action. Wear some high water pants and you were in for it. Now high waters are a style.
Not at all. It is real.
It was done as a gag and got approved by someone high up most likely an officer mom. There is a lot of women in command these days.
The thing is, I don't recall any 18 year old males who were into Pound Puppies. Do you?
Reading this thread and the article which occasioned it, I'm not surprised that so many young men behave as though they never came in contact with testosterone.
A sissy taste in backpack artwork means one is going to be a flaming fag?
I doubt it.
It’s how it starts. Parents think it’s cute until Lil Grayson show up with his boyfriend. Then they all jump on he was born that way bandwagon.
An 18 year-old MAN who likes “My Little Pony”?
Oy,vey.
At 18 I was too busy chasing the young ladies to bother with TV. Today it’s My Lil Pony and Xbox.
Heh heh, hitting a little too close to home am I?
I was wondering if anyone was going to catch taht.
I watched an episode on YouTube and I could not grasp how an adult could be into a cartoon for little kids. It’s mostly aimed at little girls.
I’m sorry but it is childish and even a little perverted. But that’s just my opinion.
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