This is probably a work in progress or will be followed up on. I’m publishing today on 9/20/11 with it feeling like a rant but I will work on content to structure better soon.

Before you read my opinion, please read the article that spawned this little posting over on Gawker: 14-Year-Old Who Made ‘It Gets Better’ Video Commits Suicide Amidst Bullying. Now, go ahead and wipe the tear from the corner of your eye. Oh, no tear? Heartless. Proceeding…

Rudy and I went to dinner with our next door neighbor the other night and had a rather interesting discussion around the bullying and stuff that goes on in school. She was telling me about a student that she has who is constantly picked on and was kinda describing his behavior and mannerisms to me. The more I listened to her describe what he is going through, the more I was reminded of what I went though when I was in school; I thought to myself how much it sounded like he was going through exactly what I had went through when I was a student.

My neighbor really wants to do something to help him but I kind of had to tell her that there is nothing she can do. Self Discovery is something that kids have to do on their own. The problem is, when you are discovering who you are and it doesn’t match up with how everyone else is, you have to pay the price for being different. On top of that, the support is just not there in the school administrations. I can recall when I was in High School, I had this major blow up one time and I was told by my Assistant Principal that it was my own fault that I was picked on because I was different and that I would just have to deal with it.

Of course, knowing what I know now, I probably would have smashed that cunt’s head into a desk or something. I should have been able to go to my school administrator and have something done rather than basically being told “tough shit, fag.” When you are trying to figure yourself out and everything is pushing you one way but you feel like you need to be going another way, it’s no wonder why people are killing themselves. We live in a modern world and it’s time that we bring the support system in educational environments up to speed.

I would love to see a world that lacks the hate caused by religious beliefs. It would be better for everyone because we could just be who we are without worrying about zealots speaking all their hate.