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10-10-2010, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
I have a lot of younger cousins who are in middle and high school.
One of them was recently removed from her high school cheer team due to being the perpetrator of online bullying.
She is a senior who was dating a senior football player. She was also really good friends with New Sophomore Cheerleader (just made the team in May of last school year).
Over the summer, Cousin and Football Player broke up. He starts spending time with New Sophomore. They decide to start dating.
Cousin of course freaks out and stops being friends with New Soph. Then school starts and they have to be aroud each other every day for cheer.
Cousin tells all the other Seniors what happened and they pretty much proceed to make cheer a living hell for her. Not in the "we're gonna punch you in the face" way. But in the "girl world" way. No one talks to her, offers to help her with cheer stuff, they don't sit by her at lunch.
New Soph tells the cheer coach, who reprimands Cousin. She also tells my aunt (Cousin's mom) and Cousin is grounded. That's when all the cyber harrassment starts.
Cousin wrote a forever long Tumblr blog about how New Soph is a skank, fat whore, etc. and sent it to her friends and they sent it to New Soph on FB.
Then they all post parts of the letter as their FB status like "Cheerleader is pretty sure that this one cheerleader is the biggest skank EVER. Ew." Not specifically calling her out but this girl knew exactly who they were talking about.
The Sophomore ended up nominated for Homecoming Court. Cousin and friends wrote mean stuff on her posters at school.
It got to be too much, she showed the FB stuff, the blog, everything to her mom, who showed the principal. The school has a zero tolerance policy on this stuff.
She got 3 days of in-school suspension, and since cheerleaders have to have a clean discipline record, she got removed from the cheer team.
This is all pretty crazy and I seriously didn't know all of this was going on because she tries to act all sweet and nice in front of me and her parents.
As appalling as this all is, I DO applaud my Aunt and Uncle for not fighting it. She cried and was all like "OMG but she is mean to me too!!! I didn't even DO anything." but they were pretty much like "too bad, you weren't crying when you were writing all this stuff.
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Claps for your aunt and uncle. It's always heartening to see parents who have their stuff together.
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10-06-2010, 07:27 PM
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One problem I see with cyber bullying in the legal sense, is who has jurisdiction over it? even if somebody knows who is bullying somebody, who does the punishing.
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10-06-2010, 11:47 PM
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KSAViolet, I applaud your aunt & uncle. While the school punishment seems harsh, maybe that's what it took to send a message to the students. Too bad it was your cousin.
I'd just like to throw one more thing into the equation: cyberbullying someone who's 14-15 is a lot different than someone who's 24-25. But in all aspects, it does add a layer to the being bullied onion.
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10-10-2010, 05:32 AM
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At the same time, I urge people who are mentally and emotionally impacted by the GC minions to use the ignore feature. I can't say what impacts people on a personal level. I would never tell people to stop coming to GC if they don't like some of the posters. I will say that GCers amuse themselves in various ways and GC is not that important as to let it have a potentially lasting mental and emotional impact on you.
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No need to repeat a bunch of stuff that's been said, but I agree with all those who said bringing real life to the Net and vice versa is crossing the line.
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10-10-2010, 06:58 AM
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I'm kind of surprised that this thread hasn't Beetlejuiced in shadows of the past...
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10-10-2010, 10:35 AM
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LOL.
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10-12-2010, 03:21 PM
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10-12-2010, 04:47 PM
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That sounds like all kinds of harassment.
I don't care if my neighbors are complete effing tools, I'm not going to harass a dying child. Jesus.
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10-12-2010, 04:56 PM
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Dr. Phil the other day was about bullying and cyberbullying.
His guests included a couple whose daughter was decapitated in a car accident. Someone from the scene of the accident took a phone photo of her body and it ended up on a lot of websites. People even went so far as to make negative comments about this dead young lady. For instance, one man said he had sex with her corpse and another person said something about her being a whore.
Everyone has their own sense of humor, some of which can seem strange and unfunny to others but WTF is wrong with people?!
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10-12-2010, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Dr. Phil the other day was about bullying and cyberbullying.
His guests included a couple whose daughter was decapitated in a car accident. Someone from the scene of the accident took a phone photo of her body and it ended up on a lot of websites. People even went so far as to make negative comments about this dead young lady. For instance, one man said he had sex with her corpse and another person said something about her being a whore.
Everyone has their own sense of humor, some of which can seem strange and unfunny to others but WTF is wrong with people?!
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I saw that photo a month or so ago (thanks a lot, Google SafeSearch  ). I have an odd sense of humor, but that picture was brutal. I would never make light of it.
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10-12-2010, 05:09 PM
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I saw that photo a month or so ago (thanks a lot, Google SafeSearch ). I have an odd sense of humor, but that picture was brutal. I would never make light of it. |
Yeah, welcome to GC where having an odd sense of humor can make at least 1 other person chuckle.
I didn't see that photo but I saw the photo of the wrecked car. I don't want to see her dead body. I agree with you that there's NOTHING funny about it. Those people who spread that photo can go to hell.
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10-13-2010, 11:30 AM
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I'm so confused.
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10-13-2010, 11:32 AM
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I'm so confused.
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Yeah, we went from cyberbullying to rape. It's because of a comment I made about "victim-blaming."
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10-13-2010, 11:34 AM
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Yeah, we went from cyberbullying to rape. It's because of a comment I made about "victim-blaming."
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Thanks for that summary. 
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