From now on, I'll be posting about bullying at my main lj, dreamer_easy.

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LIFELINE Australia - 24 hours phone 131114High school was hell for me. I'm still dealing with the damage. But I survived and I escaped. Sometimes I look at all the things that ( Read more... )

Oh God. Keep banging on about bullying, and naturally, everyone's going to send you heartbreaking links.

Student kills himself after gay sex footage put online

Parents say bullies drove their son to take his life

Focus on the Family stands up for bullying

(Don't stop sending those links, folks. I have Kleenex.)

ETA: Facebook 'frenemies' most ( Read more... )

Woman Who Took Google to Court: Safety the Issue"Had any of this been done to me over the phone or through the mail or, you know, just posting up stuff around the city, I would have been able to go to the police and ask for help. But online ... the legislation just isn't there. And so, I had to pursue a different angle in order to find this person ( Read more... )

"Don't spread rumours. Leave that kind of thing to drama queens. If you didn't witness something yourself, don't spread gossip about it. Gossip's about as real as a dream. Forget it - or it'll come back and bite you on the ass."

(My paraphrase.)

( The source )

Reading some accounts of savage cyberbullying in the progressive community has reminded me of just how minor my own encounter with the online bullies has been. I've only been ridiculed, shunned, and lied about; as damaging as that has been, I haven't been threatened or stalked, or even harassed, really. (Well, at least not by my fellow progressives ( Read more... )

Reading about bullying is at once reassuring and liberating, and bloody horrible, as all the old nausea and dread comes rushing out. I've parked so much information about the subject here there's probably not a whole lot of value in my adding much more, but I may take some notes and add further info and/or insights at some point. In the meantime, ( Read more... )

The Cowards Who Spread Bile Into Fandom: rage against an anonymous online forum dedicated to personal attacks on the people behind the scenes of Stargate: Universe.

Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, Not on Walls: NYT reports on formspring.me, 5 May 2010

Social Form Of Bullying Linked To Depression, Anxiety In Adults, Science Daily, 23 April 2008

Bullying harms kids' mental health: study, Reuters, 6 February 2008

Fear, self-censorship, and facing into it: "The so-called "Race Fail" last year was very ( Read more... )

Given his feminist cred, I wonder if Neil Gaiman remarking that "George R. R. Martin is not your bitch" can be read not as a misogynist slip, but a use of the culture's current popular metaphor for exploitation and abuse. In which case, the insult is not directed at the targets of abuse, but at the abusers, with the sense of "stop treating other ( Read more... )

I have the rampaging thoughts tonight. Parking some of them here, just to get them out of my system ( Read more... )