Teens: Anti-gay bias rampant

The Mercury News ^ | Dec. 12, 2002 | Katherine Corcoran

[scripter]

At a time when bullying and teasing in schools is a growing concern for educators and parents, a new study finds that students who are gay or thought to be gay are most likely to be targets -- even more than children who are overweight or have disabilities.

[ZULU]

"What we, as a society, are currently doing is making more victims and making those victims more unhappy. How wonderful."

That's the liberal way!! The more people dependent on the state for support and assistance, the larger and more numerous the beaurocracies. The larger and more numerous the beaurocracies, the bigger the tax bill. The bigger the tax bill, the less power the average slub has. The less power the average slub has, the more he relies on government to solve his problems. And so the cycle repeats - like a bad pizza.

[Paul Atreides]

``It's the influence of society or some religions,'' said Greg Muller, a San Jose High Academy senior who started a Gay-Straight Alliance club this year.

Oh c'mon, Greg, just tell us which "religions" you mean.

[chriservative]

San Carlos middle-schooler Mitchell Erickson still endures gay epithets that started in elementary school, when he said he liked the Spice Girls.

Wow, that is pretty gay (sexual preferences aside)!

[Publius6961]

Children pick up from the general culture that homosexuality is something weird, different or bad, many say.

Many say?

LOL!
Younger people can see the obvious, before being conditioned to be blind to fatal perversions and deviancies.
Sounds simply like mother nature at work.

Why is this news?

[John Lenin]

When are homos goin to realize that some people are just appalled and sickened at the thought of being gay ? I guess we will have to oulaw human emotion and thought.

[Paul Atreides]

If this wasn't in California, I might believe the story. However, I wouldn't doubt that it is all made up, like the people who vandalize their own property and claim to be victims of hate crimes. I have to wonder that all of this has gone on and not a single kid has been pointed out and thrown into sensitivity training.

[Sangamon Kid]

I was called a lesbian once.

"Children say the DARNEDEST things!" - Art Linkletter

[fella]

"Totally agree. These kids won't be happy -- won't be gay -- until they learn to be heterosexual. Homosexuality is a mental illness. They don't have to live that way, but until society re-learns that lesson, these kids are going to suffer. What we, as a society, are currently doing is making more victims and making those victims more unhappy. How wonderful."

You should't be lettig such trade secrets out, don't you now that a huge multi-billion dollar segment of the psycho-babble idustry is based on what you just indentified.

[RAT Patrol]

It sounds like the kids being picked on are NOT gay. ``Most of my sixth-grade year was a living hell,'' said Jacob Rubin, 13, now an eighth-grader at Willard Middle School in Berkeley who said he was labeled gay because of his long hair. ``I was called `gay,' `faggot,' `homo.' I was called a lesbian once. One day I was actually sitting in class when four boys hit me.'' This was about his long hair. So teach tolerance for long hair.

No 13 year old should be deciding he is gay anyway. Especially since the activists say that you cannot change. He should at least reach the age of consent before committing to it.

This is just a twisting of the circumstances to fit their political agenda. Kids tease each other. It starts when they begin to talk. Teaching them to be polite is a good thing, but it isn't about gayness. This is really stupid.

[Billthedrill]

The word ``gay'' is used widely among schoolchildren as a term for anything bad, students and adults say. Children pick up from the general culture that homosexuality is something weird, different or bad, many say.

Nope. If that were the case "gay" would have been used as a sobriquet in my day (FReepers, you know you're getting old when the phrase "in my day" comes popping out between the dentures) but in fact, it's a quite recent piece of slang. It is a reaction. It is a reaction to an overly aggressive and overmanipulative "acceptance" campaign that has gone way too far too fast. Kids do pick up on that, and the upshot is that real gay kids are hurt, not helped, but this PC groupthink. It backfires if it's overdone, and boy, has it ever been overdone! It causes more, not less, harrassment - kids are quite rightfully resentful of being lectured to for an offense of which most of them are innocent anyway.

There is a certain academic, theory-based approach to pedagagy that has gained popularity as the administration of the curricula has become more of a specialist occupation and less in the hands of the individual classroom teacher. This has, as one of its ground assumptions, the incredibly condescending approach that children, even late adolescents, are still tabula rasa, blank little lumps of clay to be formed by adults who are much cleverer by virtue of some sort of academic sanction. And the older the kids, the angrier this attitude makes them. The kids are more mature than the educators (not the field teachers) make them out to be; in fact, it is a sad but increasingly true state of affairs when the kids are more mature than the educators themselves.

[RAT Patrol]

``It's the influence of society or some religions,'' said Greg Muller, a San Jose High Academy senior who started a Gay-Straight Alliance club this year. Big bad society and those religious folk think morality is a good thing and should be encouraged. How horrible of them.

[freedumb2003]

"but in fact, it's a quite recent piece of slang"

I can clearly remember a "Laugh-In" piece in 1969 that had a song with the punch line "you don't have to be happy to be gay."

The way the audience laughed it was probably just emerging as slang then. I sort of use that date as the "starting point" of what is actually a hijacked word. It is rather sad, since the word "gay" used to mean happy and upbeat -- there isn't a really good substitute word.

[Blue Screen of Death]

These folks need to listen to Johnny Cash singing "Boy Named Sue". It explains a lot about how things are not, as the liberals would have it, the way life ought to be.

[First Amendment]

A friend of mine in Northern CA (whose children all were/are homeschooled) read in the local Eureka paper about a middle school or high school girl'z experience with the Planned Prenthood's intrusion into the schools there. Note: for the last 2 years, it has been MANDATORY in CA schools to teach about faggotry in ALL public schools from K-12. SO P.P. comes in and does programs of various kinds.
The girl's complaint was that the PP reps asked the kids, "Who thinks being "gay" is bad?" So the few brave kids who dared to raise their hands were put into the middle of a circle, the rest of the kids and the PP devils ganged up around them and harreased them verbally. The girl was very angry and upset. PP's reaction? "We'll use different techniques next time."
Also, this year PP was in the schools not for one day (easier for parents to take their kids from the one presentation) but for one week, every day, so as to indoctrinate the "skulls full of mush" more effectively.
Little kids would never even think of c**p like this if it wasn't for the faggotry pushers.

[John O]

The word ``gay'' is used widely among schoolchildren as a term for anything bad, students and adults say. Children pick up from the general culture that homosexuality is something weird, different or bad, many say.

Exactly as it should be.

God Save America (Please)

[John O]

Why not teach him how to fight?

Can't do that he might break a nail < /sarcasm >

The kid desparately needs therapy and she's enabling him to be sick. Some mother.

GSA(P)

[Britton J Wingfield]

he said he liked the Spice Girls."

How gay is THAT!?!?!

Depends... I like to look at the spice girls, I just don't want to have to hear them. Same reason I watch Telemundo or music videos with the sound off :)

Teach the kid to fight. I was picked on mercilessly for years until I learned to physically defend myself. Break one bully's nose and you'll breath free for the rest of your days.

[John O]

excellent insight.

GSA(P)