You're a douche ass-hat!

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Jesus CHRIST. Enough with the babying.

If you're called "gay" or whatever in school, you better get used to it. Don't take shit so seriously. This is what school is ABOUT. Mean names shouldn't denote it's time to KILL YOURSELF.

NAME-CALLING. SERIOUS BUSINESS.

It's nothing new. Kids have been doing this since kids were...well, kids. Its just NOW, they can use MySpace and AIM to do it too!

And kids have killed themselves or gone ballistic and took guns to school as a result.

Remember Columbine? Those kids were picked on, and they had had enough--so they decided to take matters into their own hands.

I was picked on in school, and I wanted to kill myself, but I didn't because I realized it would piss them off more if I lived. That's what parents need to tell their children. Parents need to pay attention to their children.

And as far as the kid in the article goes: They were his classmates. So, I'm guessing that he not only had to deal with it online, but he heard it at school. Sure, it's easy to block a person on AIM, but is it as easy to block the person standing in front of you?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

With all due respect Lekky, Columbine isn't a COMMON thing. Statistically-speaking.

My point is, those kids had had enough and did something about it. Some kill themselves, some kill others, some decide playing practical jokes work. But, they DO something that is NOT normal for them.

Like I said, living was the best revenge I could come up with.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Revenge is necessary for name-calling?

I never said it was over name-calling. I said it was over being picked on. This included physical contact like spitting. Ever been spit on? Not only is it disgusting, but it's meant to degrade a person's self-esteem.

Which didn't work because I knew that I would leave them behind. I would live my life as I wanted, where I wanted. I am nowhere near my hometown. In fact, I'm 2 states away.

So, when I say I have my revenge, I mean I didn't let what they said get to me.

PS: I couldn't do anything to anyone because my mom was the truant officer....

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

And let's not forget that the boy in the article was 13. In some states, that's middle school/junior high. In others, it's elementary school, eighth grade, and you're king of the school.

He was a teen-ager. By the age of 13, most kids are out of the "Mom! Johnny's picking on me!" stage, and try to deal with things their own way.

And Devo's right.

"Your mom talked to my mom. I'm grounded because of you! You think it was bad before? It's going to be worse!"

For all we know, the kids could have threatened him.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by starslight

Nobody kills themselves to escape bullying, whether at school or on the computer.

Really? How about a few examples?

http://www.bullyonline.org/schoolbully/cases.htm

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...28/ai_17382263

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hasn't anyone here ever heard of the phrase "mental cruelty?"

In divorce filings, mental as well as physical cruelty can be listed as reasons for divorce--since it's a form of abuse.

If this happened to a woman and she killed herself because she wanted to end the pain of the abuse her husband was causing her, we'd say--"She should have killed him. It would have been justified."

Sorry, folks, when you suffer repeated mental abuse, your self-esteem goes out the window and you do the only thing that makes sense to you. To end the pain, you remove the source--yourself.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?