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i guess your unaware of the controversial Australian short film Boys Grammar which specifically deals with bullying in schools. Basically kids gets picked on on at a private school so bad they end up sodomizing him with the end of a broom or something like it, by the way all the characters are straight boys straight.


school violence and bullying happens all over the world, Australia is not an exception but like i said, your ignorance and consistent idiocy is very amusing...

*Crosses fingers* lets all just hope this doesn't take a left turn into the religion debate department =p

lol it won't, but just explaining why I think it's wrong.

anyways, I'm off to bed, good night/day guys.

@snoopy's post of quotes,
kay, as you can see he OBVIOUSLY was an idiot or there was something severely wrong with him - If you get bullied for the way you act or the things you do in school, you at least try to stop doing those particular things. He made a conscious decision to continue, and to even take it further.
School isn't the place to express your sexual orientation, it's a place to learn, and I personally would not be able to learn in that kind of environment - and I bet that was the case of some of the other students, too.

Probably said before, this guy didn't deserve to die but he had it coming. He sexually harasses other guys in the locker room and asks someone out publicly who isn't gay. That kind of embarassment probably made Brandon go mental.

lol...HS is a social structure full of kids doing nothign but expressing their orientation. Every jock, every cheerleader, every nerd, ever weird kid, ppl making out between classes, holding hands, planning parties...

to say its not the place to express sexual orientation is up their with snoopys lvl of hypocrisy. HS and later college are the ages when kids learn and develop, where they experiment sexually and socially to find their place in the world. Every else manages to get an education through it all, whats to stop you....

Okay I am NOT gay or even bi. To be honest when a friend sent a link
to gay porn I nearly spewed. But really a kid that young murdered..
For what? For been who he is, for been stronger than most and standing
there and saying this who am I to everyone understanding that he will
probably have a horrible school life. I respect anyone who can really
be who they are understanding consequences and what not. I think we should
really stop trying to make every damn person the same. If someone is
different to the majority of people they constantly get told to live a
different life style and stuff.

He obviously was a bully magnet, he didn't need glitter, stilettos or make
up to achieve that. Him been shot isn't much of a suprise. People are shot
and bashed from thier race all the time. This probably isn't much diffrent.

I'm interested where that kid got his gun from?

so the dad had a gun lying around the house somewhere, the kid knew where it was and he took it.

All I can do is laugh at this.

As I said, I'm not denying the fact that there's no bullying in Australia, I never said it was an exception from the world. Yet you claim in the one who suffers from mental retardation? That I'm the one with intelligence level far lower than average?

You see, just because you don't believe my opinions are right makes you almost as bad as the person who killed the kid. He didn't believe that the kid parading around in high heels was the right thing either, and therefore killed him. What's next are you going to pull a gun on me?

I'm more than aware of Boys Grammar. The funny thing is, his principle too said "He bought it upon himself", that seems to be a common term in this thread, though in this case, the kid was totally normal and still got picked on. Can you imagine parading around like a pansy in high heels, lipstick, and eyeliner?

People get bullied, it's a way of life, it's not the right thing, but there's always someone smaller and larger than you, and someone is always going to get picked on. You too were probably picked on when you were in school.

In Australia, where I live at least, we don't have defined social groups. Most people intermingle with each other. Sure there's the outcasts, but bullying at my school usually happens between the lower level, and us as seniors we try to stop it.

You can call me as retarded as you like, I'm not even going to absorb what useless crap you have to rant on about, because it's in no way beneficial to life, probably not even beneficial to this forum! I'm just stating my opinion.

if your not going to listen to anything i say then stop replying to it in such length because it only proves that you've very clearly absorbed what i've typed which makes it such a shame that you have learned nothing, not even a simple lesson in empathy.

Ok. Let me clear this up: Opinions can neither be right nor wrong, they're simply your opinions.

Im sorry, i simply couldn't not reply to this statement.

As most people know i do live in Australia, just outside of Sydney. When i went to school we did have social groups. In my year we had the sluts/popular chicks, the nerds ( my group ), the football players, the small wog group and the dropkicks. Most groups didn't mingle with each other at all, it was a very divided social structure.You cant make a generic statement for the entirety of our country based on your small opinion on the country.



But you seem to not realize the fact that "the citizens of the world" have opinions based on what everyone else believes is acceptable. By constantly preaching messages saying "well its his fault" further encourages other people to do it. The only way to fight injustice is pin point it and actively work against it rather than blaming the victims.

This topic is really ironic considering i had to read the whole article YESTERDAY in school for my argumentation and persuation class, to be honest, the kid who murdered larry king took it to far, i'm sure an ass beating could've been justified haha

leave it to Gandalf...

*comes out the closet*

+1

+1

The best quote I've seen in this thread so far ^,^

You can r has cookie naos!

Haha yes agreed.
Gandalf is the ultimate.

woot

Let everyone express themselves the way they want and let everyone be who they want to be, who are you to judge?

/done with this thread

Does expressing oneself include sexually harassing others?

WTB .kill button

if a guy hits on a girl do you call that sexual harassment. Technically it could be but HS is nothing but stuff like that...no HS doesn't have guys hitting on girls that may or may not be interested in them...

not saying harassment is cool, it should've been handled properly if it was that big a deal but to say its sexual harassment and condemn it like that while completely ignoring the fact that heteros do it all the time and its no big deal is extremely bias..

i dont even wanna comment on half of the garbage i see in this thread

people contradict themselves, change their point, go back to their point... its a big "lol wut?"

There's a time and place to hit on someone or tell them that you like them. The locker room however is not the place for it. If some guy told me he liked me while in class or something I'd just tell him I'm not gay but if he says "nice body" while I'm changing, that's just sexual harassment. I don't condone when straight people do it either. If some guy says to a girl "nice ass" I'd consider that sexual harassment also.

he wasn't randomly hitting on guys in the locker room. The article says that he was being picked on in the locker room, which to be honest is an easy thing to do and get away with and he got back by telling some of them they were hot, probably to freak them out. You make it sound like he went in their and unprovoked was just like "your hot". could he have done that, i dunno i wasn't there but the article doesn't say he did.

Was he over the top, yes. Was a bit much even im my own opinion, yes. does that mean he deserved to get picked and shot, no. Would i expect him to be picked on, yes. Kids and most adults are cruel mobbish creatures...but just because its to be expected doesn't mean its deserved or right.

lul wut, a kid stood up and shot another student in front of a classroom? that kid needs to get fkin looked at.