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Originally Posted by SNR
You're right. Bullying is bullying, and that's never a good thing.
And if kids used racial slurs to bully a particular ethnicity as often as they use gay slurs to bully gay kids, I think you'd agree there's a pretty big problem that needs to be more aggressively addressed outside of, "All bullying is bad and shouldn't be tolerated."
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Though it goes without saying that is true, that wasn't the point I was making.
More when was the last time you saw a national buzz about an impassioned 'I'm proud to be tall' or 'I'm proud to love D&D' speech?
Outside Tony Radliff [and Chris Hardwick, I guess, though he's good looking and loquacious enough to pass], when was the last 'out and proud nerd' you saw celebrated in the culture sheerly for their nerdiness?
We had a kid commit suicide in MY HS purely over his nerdiness. He had crushes on girls, and a drive to be more athletic and cool, but was just a nice, pudgy, awkward kid. Totally out of the blue. He wasn't even really picked on, not that I saw. He just had higher aspirations than his makeup allowed.
Kind of like if that bland dude a couple cubicles over killed himself one day because he never took over and owned the company.
Worst part, his mom was a teacher and we saw daily the pain of losing him took on her.