Gee, where does all this hate come from? I am guessing the RW and other religious zealots...or maybe I am wrong and the Thumpers and RWers will be good humans and call their local schoolboards and demand this be shown in their area's schools.

‘Bullied’ Offers Lessons for Students, Educators

Preview Bullied here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEH75H8fPQY&feature=player_embedded

"In response to mounting reports of vicious anti-gay bullying and student suicides, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project is making a new documentary film and educational kit available – free of charge – to every school in the country.

Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case that Made History chronicles the powerful story of a student who stood up to his anti-gay tormentors and filed a federal lawsuit against his school district. The suit led to a landmark federal court decision holding that school officials could be held accountable for not stopping the harassment and abuse of gay students.

Despite that ruling, anti-gay bullying continues to be a severe, nationwide problem. In Massachusetts, for example, 11-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover hanged himself with an extension cord in 2009 after being bullied by classmates who perceived him as gay. In Indiana, another student hanged himself earlier this month after being subjected to anti-gay bullying. In the Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minnesota, at least four gay students have committed suicide in the past year alone. "

“Schools can no longer stick their heads in the sand when it comes to anti-gay bullying and prejudice – the stakes are simply too high,” said Maureen Costello, the SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance director. “Some organizations, like Focus on the Family, believe that schools shouldn’t talk about the problem. But nothing will change – and thousands of gay and straight children alike will continue to suffer abuse – until schools confront this crisis head on.”

The film and its teaching kit can be ordered online. The film, endorsed by the National Education Association, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and many other organizations, is being released in time for National Bullying Prevention Month in October. The viewer’s guide contains classroom tools and professional development materials.

Nearly nine out of 10 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) students experienced harassment in the past year – a rate three times higher than students in general, according to a 2009 GLSEN survey. Lesbian, gay or bisexual adolescents also are twice as likely to be depressed and think about or attempt suicide as their heterosexual peers, according to research cited by the government.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-s-new-anti-bullying-film-and-teaching-kit-now-available-to-educators-for-onli

there have been bullies, and loose acting, and rude, and violent people throughout history


I think what has changed is the fight to remove the 'stigma' from EVERYTHING, make everything some natural and therefore acceptable part of humanity or culture


a man would have once been ashamed to be living off of a woman or going out with a college girl
but NOW they get pats on the back for getting over


a child would have been ashamed to talk back to their teachers or parents but NOW they are supposed to be EQUAL to and just as deserving of 'being heard'


kids would have been ashamed of being rude and insulting, but now the grown ups are teaching them (through example) that these types of behaviors are just 'being honest' and therefore acceptable



its the change in what culture has begun to accept and promote as 'normal' and 'to be expected' that is tearing down at the fabric of the heights of human dignity and decency we COULD achieve,,,