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It Gets Better: Atheists for a Bully-free World

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Atheists for a Bully-free World

Location: USA
Members: 40
Latest Activity: Apr 13

Welcome to It Gets Better

Bullying and teen suicide are nothing new, but in recent years we have become increasingly aware of the damage bullying does ― to both children and adults alike ― with what seems to be a sudden spike in teen suicides related to being bulled.

The death of a child, particularly at his or her own hands, is never acceptable. It is a blight on human society that schools do not do more to prevent this, that parents can raise their children to be mean and spiteful to others, and that bullied kids don't have a support system on which they can rely when they are faced with feelings of despair and isolation.

The content of this group will undoubtedly be difficult to deal with. It is painful to see children ostracized from their peers, and made to feel as if they don't matter or don't belong. Of course, bullying is not confined to schools, either. Many adults experience bullying at home or in the workplace as well. All these issues will be explored in this group.

ONGOING THREADS
In Memoriam: Remembering the Victims of Bullying
Coping with Bullying: Videos, News, and PSAs

EXTERNAL LINKS
StopBullying.gov
It Gets Better Project
It Gets Better Project - Official YouTube Channel
The Trevor Project
Jared Story.com
Bullying Education.org
Bullycide in America
Respect U
The Price of Hate
Kindness Above Malice
School Bullying Council
Parent's Guide to Preventing and Responding to Bullying

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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 16, 2012 at 6:45pm: The most effective way to deal with a bully:

Comment by Idaho Spud on May 14, 2012 at 4:15pm: Right-on Loren. God is the biggest bully of all.

Comment by Loren Miller on May 13, 2012 at 9:34am: A post someone made on a board I follow made me think: is there a bully out there bigger than god? "Believe in me or suffer for eternity!!!" Someone tell me how you get more coercive than that! If someone wants to go after human bullies, yet tolerates the biggest bully of them all, that person has some explaining to do!

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 12, 2012 at 6:07pm: SB, I skimmed that article. It's no wonder the upper crust is so fucked up. And we trust these people with our money and government?

Comment by Sentient Biped on May 12, 2012 at 12:17pm: Hazing. I guess I'm glad I was an outcast, and never considered for a fraternity. Well, there was boot camp - Fort Polk Louisiana, but I didn't really mind that. Even the tear gas had an element of, well, rite of passage.

From the Yahoo link above "Paddled. Forced to eat dog food or human vomit. Branded with a heated wire hanger. Thrown in a kiddie pool of human vomit, feces, semen, and rotten food. Deprived of sleep. Beaten until organ failure or death."

That's why kids go to college? Pay enough tuition to buy a mini-mansion? To be thrown into a kiddie pool with that?

Comment by Sentient Biped on May 12, 2012 at 12:05pm: "People always think something's all true."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 2

Comment by Susan Stanko on May 12, 2012 at 11:25am: I read Catcher in the Rye in one of my American Novels classes in high school.

Comment by Loren Miller on May 12, 2012 at 5:52am: Hmph! The most exotic thing we ever read in high school was O. E. Rolvaag's  Giants in the Earth, my junior year. I didn't pick up Catcher until college!

Comment by Sentient Biped on May 11, 2012 at 9:53pm: My 10th grade high school teacher had us read "Catcher in the Rye" and "Clockwork Orange" and "Lord of the Flies". The next year she was no longer there. I wonder why? Meanwhile I was reading Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Philip Jose Farmer, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clark, Samuel R. Delaney. What a geek!