Trigger warning for frank discussion of bullying and PTSD. When I was young, I was bullied. A lot. Maybe not more than other kids who’ve been bullied, but I was definitely the target of my grade for many years running in my tiny grade school and middle school. It started to let up a bit …
Tag Archive: bullying
Oct 17 2012
Another girl that committed suicide is posthumously bullied for teh lulz
Another fifteen year old girl named Amanda — this time not Todd, but Cummings — killed herself after bullying, depression and a bad break-up. And people claiming to be from 4chan and 9gag (the most odious among 4chan’s numbers often use them as a scapegoat) are, again, swarming to make her family’s life post-suicide miserable, …
Oct 13 2012
Cyber-bullying kills again
Amanda Todd, a thirteen-year-old girl in Maple Ridge, BC, was flattered and cajoled and coerced into flashing someone while playing around with friends on webcam. Someone took a screenshot — apparently they didn’t vet who was on that webcam chat very well. But they were young, and stupid, and there’s a damn good reason the …
Tags: bigotry, bullying, cyber-bullying, hatred, pedophilia, suicide
Oct 04 2012
The one way we lost in the battle for the SCA
We pointed out Justin Vacula’s feet of clay, and nearly a thousand signatures were collected on the petition demanding that SCA either address his misdeeds by forcing him out or stand by those misdeeds. Vacula has stepped down from his position after this controversy didn’t go away. Which naturally means “the terrorists” and “bullies” have …
Aug 30 2012
Dad wears skirt to make dress-loving son more comfortable
Via Gawker, apparently people can come to the conclusion that traditional gender roles are inherently harmful completely unbidden. “I didn’t want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts,” Pickert tells the German feminist magazine EMMA. “He didn’t make friends in doing that in Berlin already and after a lot of contemplation I …
Tags: bullying, conformity, feminism, gender roles
Jul 18 2012
TAM’s harassment policy was secret. Why?
One of the biggest victories I was really, truly hoping for in the harassment policies campaign came to pass. But rather than crowing about it like I did with the American Atheists and CFI policies, I can barely fathom what’s going on and can’t bring myself to celebrate at all. TAM’s harassment policy appears to …
Jul 12 2012
Digital archaeology of Elevatorgate – a timeline
Oh, the huge manatee! Suirauqa has taken it upon xirself to chronicle the origin of the DEEEEP RIIIIIIFT that the community has found itself in, between people who think Rebecca Watson magically ruins everything by her mere presence, and people who think she’s just another human being. Xir googling efforts are chronicled here, and the …
Jul 06 2012
People say nice things about FtB, mean things about Paula Kirby’s vitriol
I’m sure you’ve seen all the sturm und drang over Freethought Blogs being a cesspool of bullying and thought-policing hive-mindery. Despite this, a few people outside the network have voiced their support of people inside the network, and are picking off the worst lines of argumentation that people are using to try claim that we’re …
Jul 04 2012
Crashing the #FTBullies Hashtag
Like the bullies we are, we FtB bloggers (and our friends and readers) crashed a hashtag originally started by a few people who just absolutely hate that we talk about social justice so much and dare to moderate the comments sections on those posts. Hilarity ensued. This is a snapshot of some of the funniest …
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