Ellen Page is gay

[Baby Lee]

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."

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.