From Science Daily on February 1st:
In a nation wide study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, it is reported that kesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and other sexual minority youths are bullied two to three times as often as heterosexual youths are. LGBT(etc.) youth are also more vulnerable to mental stresses such as suicidal thoughts. It is also interesting to note that older adolescents are also bullied. So the problem is in both Junior and Senior High, all the way up to senior year.
Which shows that work still needs to be done to create school environments that are supportive and accepting of all students regardless of the students' sexual orientation. At the very least, schools need to lay down rules that bullying will not be tolerated, period.
Nationwide Children's Hospital (2010, February 1). Sexual minority youth bullied more than heterosexual youth. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 2, 2010, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2010/01/100127182503.htm
Problem is: it is always the religious right propagandists that oppose this. The most shameful being the "ex-gay" cult known as Exodus International.
Showing posts with label Hate Speech. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Utterly Disgusting and Insane Hate Video.
I found this at Joe.My.God. The original is at WorldNutDaily.
WARNING -- COARSE LANGUAGE ALERT.
Pardon my Fench but I am majorly pissed off and very angry.
Just fucking revolting. And twisting MLK's inspirational fight for freedom into killing human beings is beyond abhorrent.
The recent open talk about rounding us up should be seen as a RED ALERT.
The ramp-up of this type of vicious, violent rhetoric is truly disturbing -- it demands that we be more active, confrontational and vocal oursleves. Queer Rising and other groups who've started civil disobedience got it right; this has to be in your face, every day and a demand for no less than full equality -- and these morons publicized and confronted.
I'm sick of gay people who are too chickenshit to push back. You can't make a moral equivalence between hatred of the oppressor and hatred of the oppressed. We have no obligation to treat people like Molotov Mitchell with a shred of respect or even common politeness.
These people are classic bullies, and the only way their evil will be reigned in is if they have something to lose by bullying us.
WARNING -- COARSE LANGUAGE ALERT.
Pardon my Fench but I am majorly pissed off and very angry.
Just fucking revolting. And twisting MLK's inspirational fight for freedom into killing human beings is beyond abhorrent.
The recent open talk about rounding us up should be seen as a RED ALERT.
The ramp-up of this type of vicious, violent rhetoric is truly disturbing -- it demands that we be more active, confrontational and vocal oursleves. Queer Rising and other groups who've started civil disobedience got it right; this has to be in your face, every day and a demand for no less than full equality -- and these morons publicized and confronted.
I'm sick of gay people who are too chickenshit to push back. You can't make a moral equivalence between hatred of the oppressor and hatred of the oppressed. We have no obligation to treat people like Molotov Mitchell with a shred of respect or even common politeness.
These people are classic bullies, and the only way their evil will be reigned in is if they have something to lose by bullying us.
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