Quote Originally Posted by Robert-The-Rambler
How the hell do you plan on stopping the bullying? It starts with you and when it gets serious enough you have to get your family and friends involved and if it gets into real criminal behavior you have to notify the police. Things only get worse when you don't handle them quickly. I never dealt with long term bullying. I'm generally easy to get along with. A baseball teammate of mine was giving me a hard time in middle school years ago and would do stuff like steal my lunch or kick me out of my seat. I stole some of his lunch got detention saying that the fries tasted good and then I proceeded to outplay him and steal the starting centerfield position. Naturally he was no longer a problem. If fact he said probably the most interesting thing to me years later when I happen to see him in a supermarket. He wondered if I was still playing ball and I said just softball and he said man I thought you were going pro. It just drives me crazy when somebody kills themself. A movie like Better Off Dead comes to mind. There is just so many things worth living for. And there are worse things than getting an intimate encounter broadcast on the web. How bout not having an intimate encounter to get broadcast? I think Yes is wrong about being an owner of a lonely heart. That sucks even worse. I kept to myself in high school and I heard the whispers about being gay or whatever but I never let that stuff get to me.

Sometimes a good fight is all you need to restore your confidence. A "George McFly" moment if you understand I think is what everybody needs to get their confident juices flowing. It doesn't necessarily have to be a physical altercation. I almost got in a fight in a religious education class when some kid called me meek because I was soft spoken in the classes. I hated that religious crap so it was amazing that I even kept my eyes open much less could speak loudly enough. I can't remember the conversation with the Sisters after the incident. Nobody should ever kill themself. It really is a sin and the pain it causes to the ones who love you is everlasting. Suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness. But it is not a perfect world.


You are obviously unaware of how severe bullying can be. As a young gay teen it is usually not about lunches stolen but about many in your class turning against you. While trying to figure out why your feelings and desires are so different from your friends on top of starting puberty and dealing with those changes you become the object of ridicule and hate. Sure run for help but to whom. Will your parents reject you? As we know some parents reject their gay children. You might go to a teacher who due to their own bias may be less than helfpful.

When you face that much revulsion every day and sometimes for years you find yourself questioning if all those students can be wrong. Maybe I am what they say I am. Maybe I would be better off dead. You would be surprised what dealing with all that ugliness will do to your thought process. But after all you had a lunch stolen.