Anti-bullying signal-boost.
Oct. 9th, 2010 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gaudiorPeople have been talking about bullying lately. Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project has drawn attention to the suicides of gay teenagers, and has inspired the Make It Better Project, to give youth and concerned adults the tools they need to stop bullying in the schools. (I strongly recommend MIBP's Take Action page, which has such useful links as information about The Safe Schools Improvement Act (H.R. 2262/S. 3739) and how you can support it). And both ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
homasse and seishonagon linked to an insightful and useful article by Kate Harding, On Good Kids and Total Assholes.
I'm glad people are talking about this so much-- it's making me think about my own childhood, and how much I accepted kids making fun of me, ostracizing me, and generally making me miserable as "just the way things are." That understanding of the universe and my place in it had long-lasting effects, and I am delighted and grateful that people now are talking seriously about how to stop bullying.
(I may at some point make a larger post, but at the moment, I wanted to signal-boost. Yay, signal-boosting.)
--R
homasse and seishonagon linked to an insightful and useful article by Kate Harding, On Good Kids and Total Assholes. I'm glad people are talking about this so much-- it's making me think about my own childhood, and how much I accepted kids making fun of me, ostracizing me, and generally making me miserable as "just the way things are." That understanding of the universe and my place in it had long-lasting effects, and I am delighted and grateful that people now are talking seriously about how to stop bullying.
(I may at some point make a larger post, but at the moment, I wanted to signal-boost. Yay, signal-boosting.)
--R
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Date: 2010-10-11 04:13 pm (UTC)Instead my full body hives (legs, arms and front and back of my torso) were dismissed as "just itchy" and that "the real problem is [my] weight" and I got a lecture on my weight and eating habits. Which the doctor didn't bother asking me about and got totally wrong. I left the office feeling like I wasn't worth treating and that clearly anything wrong with me was connected to my weight and therefore my fault and I shouldn't waste a doctor's time with it. That helps no one and from what I can tell, it's sadly common.
(The hives turned out to be caused by a polyester blanket, and I've now got a new doctor who is really awesome.)