Friday, March 14, 2014 12:40:04 PM · by Responsibility2nd · 95 replies
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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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Idiot parents.
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Idiot school also. When little Gaylord and his pony get beaten up after school, you can just bet your bongos the parents will sue the school.
All this hatred for a little nine year old boy is a bit over the top.
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This has nothing to do with the little boy. He’s being played for a fool and is victimized by his idiot parents.
The school TRIED to do the right thing, but PC pressure got to them and they caved.
It kinda is a trigger, but it’s really no ones business if the kid wants to be a “Bronie”. Mom should have prepped the kid that it might be trouble for him sporting that thing, but still...
Boys aren’t allowed to be boys anymore.
So they’ll be what they are allowed to be.
So individual liberty and freedom don’t matter a hill of beans when a 9 y.o. boy wants to bring a My Little Pony backpack to school? We chuck those small ‘c’ conservative values out the window because we wouldn’t be caught dead carrying around a backpack like that? I’m afraid I can’t agree with that at all.
The parents seem to be failing their kid. Would they send him to school on a dress if he wanted that? Apparently this was such a massive story, even Glenn Beck jumped aboard. Stupid if you ask me.
I know it sounds odd, but bullies do perform a service of sorts. At a young age, children are compelled to want to learn conformity and social order. It is important that they learn the parameters to conformity, so that they learn both how conformity and non-conformity work.
But some parents are so desperate for their child to exhibit uniqueness, that they do not appreciate their child’s need to learn the rules of society safely. The result is children who in public are out of control.
For example, in a restaurant, the child pulls down his pants and poops on the carpet. His mother chastises the horrified waiter because “he is expressing his creativity.” For his part the child is confused, because he never gets a reaction other than praise when he does that at home.
Bullies, however, are attracted to unusual appearances or behavior, like predators are attracted to limping prey. 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.
In this case, the principal was spot on in recommending that the boy not bring his My Little Pony backpack to school. Because even if the faculty sit on the current bullies, new bullies will emerge to perform their function. And not just boys, but if they have to, girls.
I think people are more sick of cruddy parents who raise boys as girls, like the two freaks in Britain who have their boy wear dresses.
Absolutely...Some Parents don’t deserve kids...
Look. In a few years this boy will be a cross dresser. Demanding his rights to enter the girls restroom at school.
Will you still be OK with his “individual liberty and freedom” to do that? Will you also take his side against the “bullies”?
This immediately came to mind....
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.
—— In a few years this boy ..... demanding ....——
That is initiative, planning ahead.
His videos will make millions
When I was in 7th grade my mother made me wear a “Dr. Zhivago” hat to school. It would get tossed around a circle while I tried to catch it. My mother said they were jealous. No they weren’t. And Dr. Zhivago got sent to Siberia, never to be seen again.
The first season of the new MLP was pretty darn good depicting fairly entertaining characters with flaws. All the characters worked at occupations that they loved, dealing with problems that can come up with friends and problems that can come up on the job like dealing with picky clients.
Popularity ruined it. The librarian character has become yet another pretty princess and it’s just another kid’s fantasy show now
The wussification of America continues.
...I remember once, when I was eight, I wore short pants to school...and in the immortal words of Scooter Rizzuto; Holy Cow...never did that again...
And your proof that this is inevitable is ...?
One might as well argue that a gun-owner will be locked up for a mass shooting because people who own guns love to shoot things, especially things that move, and because of the human propensity for novelty, they will all sooner or later want to shoot other human beings. After all, every shooter who killed people had a gun.
I hope that sounds ridiculous, because it is, but it’s of the same caliber as the assertion that this kid will become a cross-dresser demanding the right to use the girl’s lavatory.
Kids have ways of enforcing their social norms that are a bit crude and heavy-handed. They lack the subtlety normally associated with adult enforcement of social norms.
A problem we have with society is that we no longer recognize a number of social norms that are highly desireable. Thirty years ago, the idea of “gay marriage” would have been against all social norms. So we coddle the “my little pony” backpack kid. Sorry, boys should NOT have “my little pony” backpacks. It’s just wrong.
I feel sorry for the kid, I don’t like bullying, but he needs to get his act together and not wear a “my little pony” backpack. It does make him a target, as well it should. Get the kid a Call of Duty backpack instead.
If he were truly cool, he would join a swim team and get a SPEEDO back pack.
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