Calif. mayor says bullying victims need to toughen up and ‘grow a pair’

[suwiel]

Last year, town rescinded LGBT proclamation, and is the only California municipal government to support Proposition 8
Friday, May 16, 2014PORTERVILLE, Calif. - A central California mayor says bullying victims should toughen up, “grow a pair” and defend themselves, sparking anger among some city officials and gay rights advocates

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[martydressler]

Fuckin' Porterville.

/Central California gripe/

[nesmith]

Yeah, and you know what happens when we do fight back? We get stomped on even harder.

Not everyone who's bullied finds the I Don't Give A Fuck Zone.

[mikya]

Or even if we don't get stomped harder we get disciplined by the school like I did for being in a fight while nothing happens to the bully because they're on the football team and they can't have any disciplinary actions against them or they're off the team.

/bitter

[ladycyndra]

I'm sorry you were put through that. Hugs if you want them.

[nesmith]

Ugh, I HATE that. I was lucky enough (or smart enough, don't know which) to have all my incidents documented so that when I did get into a bad enough fight to have the principal involved he was sitting there with a half-inch thick file of all the harassment and torture I'd gone through, and I was lucky enough to have a teacher come in and tell the little prick and his mother exactly what the little bastard had said and done to me.

I think even if I hadn't been fortunate like that, I was so burned out and dead inside that I wouldn't have cared what happened to me. I was just beyond pain at that point.

[awesomeosity]

It's always "deal with it," and never "hey, maybe you should stop being a dick to other people."

[ladycyndra]

No. The problem is that bullies need to stop being fucking bullies and be taught that you do not treat people that way. Ugh.

[rhysande]

People who complain about how terrible it is for them because they're being asked to stop treating others badly... :(