Comments on: “Our Generation Has The Power To End It” https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/our-generation-has-the-power-to-end-it/ Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:26:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: azkyroth https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/our-generation-has-the-power-to-end-it/#comment-11755 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:26:19 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=298#comment-11755

At least we’re calling it by its name now. When I was a kid, it was called “teasing.”

Frankly, I’d like to see THAT made a felony.

]]> By: Dianne Hoffman https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/our-generation-has-the-power-to-end-it/#comment-11754 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:42:17 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=298#comment-11754 Is Michele Bachmann insane?

]]> By: Lauren Ipsum https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/our-generation-has-the-power-to-end-it/#comment-11753 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:39:40 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=298#comment-11753 At least we’re calling it by its name now. When I was a kid, it was called “teasing.” As in, 28 of every 30 kids would mock me every day in some capacity, calling me names, chasing me around the playground, occasionally shoving me in the halls, cornering me in the street, crank-calling my house (I shudder to think what they’d have done to me in the internet age), and they were “teasing” me.

]]> By: ischemgeek https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/our-generation-has-the-power-to-end-it/#comment-11752 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:49:18 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=298#comment-11752 Ibis3, I think it’s because a lot of people have the idea that when anyone under 18 is concerned, “it takes two to tango.”

Somehow, they can accept the idea of an adult being jumped out of nowhere and beaten to a bloody pulp, but if the same thing happens to a kid, the kid must’ve provoked it somehow. “What did you do to make him slam your hand in the locker/hit you with the lid of the ball crate/stab you with a compass/etc?” is something I heard a lot as a kid. The idea that my mere existence was all the provocation the bullies needed was incomprehensible to them.

]]> By: Ibis3, féministe avec un titre française de fantaisie https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/our-generation-has-the-power-to-end-it/#comment-11751 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:22:29 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=298#comment-11751 It’s a very strange notion indeed that the laws which protect adults from harassment, stalking, and even physical assault somehow don’t and shouldn’t apply to children.

]]> By: nigelTheBold, Wagering against Pascal https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/22/our-generation-has-the-power-to-end-it/#comment-11750 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:04:25 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=298#comment-11750 It is a sad day indeed when our pop icons show greater moral integrity and compassion than our elected officials.

/me raises a glass in Lady Gaga’s general direction.

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