If you’re trying to raise a compassionate person who treats other people well, a nice talk about being nice to other people is not going to do anything but convince the kid she’s gotten away with her bad behavior.
parenting
name calling
The follow-up story to what happened after my friend's boyfriend completely unleashed on me.
education
Telling women they need smaller bazongas if they want to avoid bullying is feeding into a larger and really gross culture about women and bodies.
cunt
The worst part? We're sharing a vacation house for the next four months.
bullying
Some adults seem to think bullying is the natural order of things.
the internet
Don't worry, this is not another "are women funny?" thing, because ZZZZZ. This is something else entirely. )
bullying
I had a flat chest, a horrible nickname and I was willing to do anything to fit in as a seventh-grader. I found my panacea in the guise of a secret book called "How to Be Popular."
being fat all over the internet
Fat-hating bullies make me teeth-grittingly angry. I think they make this fat news anchor in Wisconsin angry as well.
Marianne in
Issues,
being fat all over the internet,
fat,
fat acceptance,
haes,
broadcast news,
bullies,
bullying
Oct 2, 2012 at 5:00pm | 218 comments
homecoming
A familiar prank made the news this week as a Detroit teen was voted on the Homecoming court as a "joke." Who has this not happened to?
bullying
The stuff middle school kids say is a thousand times worse than the worst things I hear adults utter even in the darkest rage. Kids of that age seem to have a unique imagination for language and its ability to cause misery.
bullying
"Words hurt. Words can kill," says the mother of Rachel Ehmke, the 13-year-old seventh grader who committed suicide last week after being "slut shamed" and bullied.
bully
When another story like that of Kenneth Weishuhn comes like bullet spray toward my entire being I can't help but think -- it doesn't always get better.
bullying
I took to writing stories about vengeance, about stabbing my friends with whatever was near to hand; pencils in the classroom, sporks in the cafeteria, a ruler in the hallway while classes were changing. I walked around with vivid images in my head of tearing those girls' faces off.
bullying
Apparently there is no context under which my nose shape and size are regarded positively.
bullying
I was "whore-coughed" by a group of teen girls last night. It...gets better?
bullying
I even have a “dangerous pet warning” on my UPS account, because of the time the driver came up to the porch and Loki attempted to attack him through the crack in the window.
bullying
This stuff makes people gun-shy, and with good reason. Which means doctors could be killing women by making check-ups into an exercise in shame.
