This one goes for all those bullied in their youth, stay strong and heed the wise words of Chris Weidman. Ossu. Bobby Razak profiles UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman in the latest of…
Bullying
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Everyone probably experiences bullying at some time in their lives, and for some it can leave lifelong psychological scarring. For children, the right kind of adult intervention can make all the difference in the world. But what about the wrong kind? One organization, Little Baby Faces, offers free plastic surgery to bullied children, but their services aren’t just aimed at repairing disfigurements of various sorts. In the embedded video from CNN, one girl taunted for her “big ears” goes in for a consultation with Little Baby Faces and leaves with a laundry list of her physical imperfections.
Is it healthy when an adult not only reinforces the specious insults of a bully but then heaps on even more criticism? Does minor physical imperfections warrant plastic surgery? What kind of lesson does this teach to the bullied, and how will this affect their development as human beings?
Via the Toronto Standard (thanks to Warren Ellis for the tweet): UPDATE: Stephanie Guthrie received multiple death threats following the publication of this article. Police are now involved and the offending users…
Is this why Obama chose yesterday to publicly support gay marriage? Elspeth Reeve writes at the Atlantic Wire: What would be the worst possible news for Mitt Romney to have to deal…
Celebrated activist and sex columnist Dan Savage is in hot water for this portion of a speech which he gave to Seattle-area high school journalism students as the keynote speaker at a convention called Journalism on the Edge. Fox News, among others, has accused him of bullying Christian teens for saying the following:
Via Modern Mythology: The movie Bully is hitting theaters on Friday, and it is making quite a stir. The issue of bullying in schools has taken a surprisingly long time to reach a…
Writes Erin Gloria Ryan on Jezebel: Despite the fact that there’s scant evidence in the Bible that Jesus was an asshole who commanded his followers to bully gay children to death, a…
Don’t tell me the kind of things that happened in Nazi Germany could never happen in the USA … Ryan D. Buell reports in the Huffington Post: Court records refer to him…
Bullying is taught in schools, churches and families throughout America. Bullying is a common practice in our military training. An extremely prevalent form of this teaching is “group punishment.” One person or…
As a sort of follow up to my post yesterday, from Think Progress: Many states across the country are taking laudable steps to enact measures that bolster administrators’ ability to protect students…
Amidst the recent spate of news stories about bullied youth committing suicide (at least nine in September), ScienceDaily reports: Loners and antisocial kids who reject other children are often bullied at school…