There are groups that push to out gay politicians/preachers/etc. who speak against gay rights. I'm generally against it, I think, but I get why they do it.

I think the line is crossed when it goes from talking about them to targeting them. The ADA (ASA?) who targeted the college student for promoting the 'radical homosexual agenda' wasn't just blogging against him but carried it over into real life as well. He made this guy his obsession. Interestingly I think the celebs that do the best follow the "just ignore it" advice that parents give their kids. Anderson Cooper just doesn't talk about his sexuality even though everyone I know or have seen just assumes he's gay.

I'm not sure that there's a hard and fast line, much like with any bullying behavior. It seems like it's a 'know it when you see it' thing, though that doesn't work well for legal purposes.

I don't think anyone is avoiding any issues. We've already stated that some of the people on here bring GC into real life (cyber-stalking, etc), but the vast majority of the "bullying" that goes on here doesn't do that. Calling someone a bitch or disagreeing with someone =/= bullying.

I created the thread and I'm the only Delta in the room. There goes the elephant. :)

Yes, Tippiechick, you don't have to imagine an elephant to discuss what you did and apologize for it again. :) Others who feel that they have done something and want to discuss it are free to do so. Those who have had something done to them via GC are free to discuss that. I certainly don't know the details of the bullying that has occurred on GC. People who know the details are free to discuss if that's the direction they want the thread to go in.

Dramatic.

I don't consider it real cyberbullying when you can clearly leave a website like GC and not return (or come back as someone different, which folks do on here all the time) and you don't know most or any of the folks in real life. On the other hand, when people have your email, home phone number and/or address, or you're on a school or job site and you actually know the people and have to see them in real life, that's something different entirely.

How many flouncers have come back with a different name? Do they reinvent themselves and/or avoid those who pick on them?

So no one ever picked on you in school? Really? And I don't know why it's so hard for you to imagine adults being bullied. In abusive relationships for example, aren't the victims being bullied? Being bullied has no age limit.

How many are actually being picked on though? In most cases, when the OP stops the foolishness and doesn't carry it into a different thread, the issue is forgotten about and GC folks move on rather quickly from what I've seen. It's only when the OP keeps things going and engages in a back and forth (clearly not being a victim), that the foolishness continues.

I don't know because I don't click on every thread and don't pay attention to the threads that I do click on unless something entertains me. :)

But, my post wasn't rhetorical. LOL. I was really asking you to tell me more about those who come back under a new name. Do they try to create a new identity and/or avoid those who had been messing with them?

1. When I think "bullying," I think of it as a recurring event (John Doe gets picked on every day when he walks into school). Sure, I have seen people give me looks (beginning of HS, as I was "the new kid -- never before that and not during the end of HS), but because of my body type and demeanor, it never went beyond that.

2. I wasn't thinking in term of domestic abuse. I was thinking bullying in social settings. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around HOW adults let themselves get bullied (read: social situations), but I don't deny that it happens. If we're throwing domestic abuse into the equation, then I agree, bullying has no age limit.

LOL -- I guess I'm lucky that person never found me

I'm more intrigued by the supposed body type and demeanor (especially as a youngin) that would stop others from whooping his ass.

:confused:

What exactly are you trying to get at? Are you trying to break down my walls and get to my core so I can admit that I TRULY got bullied?

Yes, people get picked on from time to time. No, it doesn't always translate into bullying.

Just saw this article pop up on my email homescreen, and it made me wonder... Are kids more sensitive to bullying now BECAUSE their parents go and fight every battle for them?

When I was in Jr. High, I was not a small girl (looking back at pictures, I wasn't huge, like I was lead to believe, but most definitely NOT small). Some girls called my house when I wasn't home and left a chorus of them repeating "Jellyroll, JELLYroll, jellyROLL, JELLYROLL", over and over. Being that it was on the answering machine, my parents heard it. Then, they deleted it and pretty much told me to get over it, because there are always going to be THOSE people in life, and you have to learn to deal with it. I feel like I'm a stronger person than I would have been if they WOULD have stepped in every time something like that happened.


PS...after starting a major life change diet over 2 years ago, I HIT MY GOAL WEIGHT THIS MORNING!! I have lost 112 lbs.

/major tangent

Good for you Alpha Frog. Losing a 112 pounds is like being a different person. :)