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Hahahahahahahaha How The **** Is Cyber Bullying Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha
So apparently a trans-gender game modder killer him/herself by jumping off a bridge due to people urging him/her to do so thinking that it was all a big ploy to get more attention to their mods. I honestly rolled my eyes at it. It's always bad when someone dies, commits suicide but c'mon. Really? I think my crude sentiment can be best summed up by Tyler the Creator's Tweet:
Sure that is really crude but the guy is straight to the point. It's ridiculous. Your weapon against it is the on/off switch on the back of the computer. The sleep/wake button on top of the iPhone. So not really a political thing, just think it's one of those made up white people problems we have nowadays that end up becoming a thing bigger than it really needs to be. So thoughts?
On Christmas Eve 2007, during the winter break of her junior year, Chen discovered that an ex-boyfriend had posted intimate photos of her on the Internet. This practice now has a name: revenge porn. Back then, it was simply called scandalous.
Chen wasn’t just an anonymous student. As a freshman at Harvard, she started a blog called Sex and the Ivy, where she wrote about her hookups, self-medication with alcohol, recovery from an eating disorder and crushing desire to be liked. All standard stuff for a college student.
Chen didn’t think it was such a big deal. She didn’t appreciate the fact that she was a teenage girl, talking about sex, while attending Harvard. Her blog set the Ivy League on fire, drawing the attention of national media. Her public journaling took on new gusto. She was majoring in sociology and steeped in gender theory; she thought she was living her politics by offering an uncensored female take on sex.
But that winter day, she became a minor celebrity with naked photos on the Internet. For some, this was righteous comeuppance for the campus harlot. For others it was just great gossip. Classmates and other titillated parties reposted the images around the Web, and comment threads exploded with colorful debate.
If you meet someone on the street and they say, 'you're fat', or 'you're ugly,' or 'you're a fag', and then you walk away from them, does that erase the memory of their words and the reminder of the social stigmas that some people may face, real or not?
When you turn off the computer or walk away...you are still who you are...and now you face the world where you may believe that that is all other people see when they meet you.
I was given a very useful piece of advise back in the day. Due to my PTSD during and from my childhood abuse, I wasn't much liked and got verbally assaulted from time to time, additionally I had all my parents verbal assaults running around in my head. Anyway the advise she gave me was this...
If a crazy drunk guy came up to you and told you that your eyes were neon purple, would you believe him? No, you wouldn't. You know it's a lie. So when people lie about you, regardless of family or schoolmate, just remember that if a crazy drunk can't make you believe a lie, neither should you allow anyone else.
Quite literally now when people start commenting in a way that's clearly a misrepresentation of who I am, my first thought is "purple eyes," and it doesn't effect me as much. Now if a person is a friend or family member who is doing thusly often, then they simply are no longer part of my life. I see no point in having people who trash others around me or my loved ones, nor people that don't know when it's no longer funny. You know the type, says something just really crappy and then says, "aw, can't you take a joke."
Anyway, cyberbullying is real. But I believe instead of making the bullies the focus of our response, we need to find a way to empower kids to resist the effects of bullying. Disempower them arseholes, kind of like I did today actually, disempowering that cop by refusing to play his game at all.
Here is my thing, I've dealt with depression, etc etc, my brother for example got bullied in High School for coming out as gay but he loves, just simply loves PC games. When he gets into a tussle with someone online, in say a forum you know what he does? This is crazy guys check this out...you got a ignore/block option! The internet is an amazing thing! The whole meeting a guy in the street thing I think that's a totally different deal. My brother he is a sensitive guy, he "dealt" with "cyber bullying" before and all it takes is 2 clicks and poof it's all gone!
Here is my thing, I've dealt with depression, etc etc, my brother for example got bullied in High School for coming out as gay but he loves, just simply loves PC games. When he gets into a tussle with someone online, in say a forum you know what he does? This is crazy guys check this out...you got a ignore/block option! The internet is an amazing thing! The whole meeting a guy in the street thing I think that's a totally different deal. My brother he is a sensitive guy, he "dealt" with "cyber bullying" before and all it takes is 2 clicks and poof it's all gone!
Really? He's forgotten all about it and doesnt think that perhaps, such insults are shared out in society?
OK that's 1.
What about the other countless people who aren't as mentally healthy? Kids are jumping off of water towers over this. They are shooting up schools over this. I don't think it should be discounted.
Weak parents, weak kids. Like I said. White. People. Problems.
OK. Hope that if you ever have children who are bullied, you don't take this stance with them.
Here is my thing, I've dealt with depression, etc etc, my brother for example got bullied in High School for coming out as gay but he loves, just simply loves PC games. When he gets into a tussle with someone online, in say a forum you know what he does? This is crazy guys check this out...you got a ignore/block option! The internet is an amazing thing! The whole meeting a guy in the street thing I think that's a totally different deal. My brother he is a sensitive guy, he "dealt" with "cyber bullying" before and all it takes is 2 clicks and poof it's all gone!
So apparently a trans-gender game modder killer him/herself by jumping off a bridge due to people urging him/her to do so thinking that it was all a big ploy to get more attention to their mods. I honestly rolled my eyes at it. It's always bad when someone dies, commits suicide but c'mon. Really? I think my crude sentiment can be best summed up by Tyler the Creator's Tweet:
Sure that is really crude but the guy is straight to the point. It's ridiculous. Your weapon against it is the on/off switch on the back of the computer. The sleep/wake button on top of the iPhone. So not really a political thing, just think it's one of those made up white people problems we have nowadays that end up becoming a thing bigger than it really needs to be. So thoughts?
OK. Hope that if you ever have children who are bullied, you don't take this stance with them.
It's "blame the victim" time. "White" victims, apparently.
Let me explain the white people problems thing. Really, it's more of average middle class american problems. You don't see crap like this happening all over the world, just mostly in western society, and much of western societies characteristics originated from USA in the first place. So I hope that clears it up some.
He doesn't go to school with those people?
This is a fair point, however in this instance, parents need to step in, go to PTC, engage in the childs life. There is no excuse in the world for being a bad parent. Well what if the kid acts like everything is ok? Well just be involved in there lives especially the teenage years. If your kid is gay then let them be gay, embrace it, and find out how to make there lives better.
Well see I'm not weak and neither is my daughter. So what is your point? She wasn't raised by fools and neither is she. When a kid hurts her feelings she doesn't see it as her loss, she sees it as their loss, because typically the kid is an asshole anyways.
Well see I'm not weak and neither is my daughter. So what is your point? She wasn't raised by fools and neither is she. When a kid hurts her feelings she doesn't see it as her loss, she sees it as their loss, because typically the kid is an asshole anyways.
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