Another bullied child commits suicide…

It was just a couple weeks back that I mentioned the suicide of a ten-year-old girl who was bullied over being "fat" and a "slut." I didn't have much to rant on about that because this is becoming so common, and the public response is still to do nothing about bullies. Apparently people are confusing freedom of speech with the right to verbal harassment. They also think that me saying things like "bullies should be put in therapy" is restricting their rights, even though the victims of bullies are FORCED to sit through therapy. The victim is punished, and the bully moves on to another victim on their list with zero guilt and zero punishment. So the system rewards bad behavior while telling the rest of us to conform? And people wonder why I rarely listened to my teachers.

Well today, I get to update you with another death, an eleven-year-old in Massachusetts who was forced to hang himself after constant bullying from kids who thought he was gay. I'm going to guess that he probably wasn't even old enough to know if he was gay or not. I'm going to go even further out on a limb and suggest that 11 was probably too young for him to have permission to watch the "It Gets Better" videos online. A shame. If he could have just held out five years or so to be old enough to see them, he could have watched adult celebrities tell him to tough it out through high school as well, because that's the only help he'd get from most of these people.

I find it sad how "protecting" the children can be used as a shield for every single wedge issue in our society, but when it comes to actually protecting kids from real threats like bullies, politicians and voters alike are mum. So if some dude wants to fondle your kid's johnson, that's worthy of chest pounding, hair pulling, and the loudest howls of outrage possible. But if the victim was bullied to death by other children, your reaction is decidedly more muted. In fact, it's nonexistent.

So pardon me when I don't believe your fake outrage over the Penn State rapes. It's just, I've never once seen genuine concern from y'all for the kids. All I see is this moral posturing and finger pointing so you don't have to admit you're just as much to blame for this problem as the bullies and molesters are. Not because you do nothing. Because you do nothing for these kids while howling loudly that you're all about protecting the children. It is the dreadful hollowness of your constant moral posturing that makes me sick.

I'd hoped that one day as an adult, I could be an advocate against bullying. But I'd wrongly thought that adults just weren't aware of how bad things were. Now as an adult, I see that yes, you are well aware of the problem, and you choose not to think about it at all. All that bullshit about the welfare of children that you people spout is all lies. And the worst part is, your love of kids only extends to your own little bastards. Maybe you think I'm being mean, but parents, go back through your Facebook status messages, and see how you talk about your own kids versus everyone else's kids. Yours are little angels, and everyone else has emo demon spawn.

You've got to stop this Us VS Them shit. Go look at the pictures of other peoples' kids in the above links. Then think of your kid, and ask, "How would I react if my kid committed suicide over bullying?" Take that reaction, and do something with it. Feel something for other peoples' kids before they commit suicide, and let's PLEASE start talking about mandatory aggression therapy for bullies. Please, let's stop punishing the victims while allowing habitual abusers to hone their harmful anti-social skills.