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Celeb News: Lady Gaga meeting with President to help combat bullying
Member Since: 12/21/2010
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
Do you guys really, REALLY belive in that?
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I was bawling yesterday and felt very angry about Jamey's death; why isn't Gaga allowed to do the same? She probably feels a bit of guilt too.
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Member Since: 12/21/2010
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
Teachers hardly see the real bullying going on.
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My fifth grade teacher sure did, and she did absolutely nothing; even when my PRINCIPAL told her to do something about it, she didn't.
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Member Since: 6/16/2010
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Originally posted by Orsay
As a Gaga stan, I agree.
I'm so sick of all this anti-bullying ****.
Don't get me wrong, bullying isn't okay, but it's becoming too much. There are so many bigger problems in this world.
And it's like, smart people (like Gaga) know that if they mutter ANYTHING to do with "anti-bullying" everyone is going to praise them, it's like an easy cheap way to be liked. And the way Gaga worded that....idk, it sounded so fake.
But I guess nonetheless...
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This is unfair. If she did it for attention she wouldn't follow it up like she did with DADT. Having a huge celebrity behind a cause makes a massive difference because lets be honest, people read what celebrities have to say but politicians...not so much unless you are over 40 or a politics major. She is using her celebrity to raise awareness and that is only a good thing.
You don't know that it's fake, she seems to be a very empathetic person and if she was bullied as she said then it is a personal issue.
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Member Since: 6/25/2010
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Something needs to be done. People like me, yes, the troubled, abused, and the teased needs to be heard. I know schools make their effort with these bullying stuff but from what I've noticed over the past years in school, teachers tend to have more talking about it and less action done. Even my gym teachers, I always ask them if I could sit out for the reward activity (we're divided by gender in our Gym class, so all my classmates are boys) because I cannot play around feeling sorry for myself looking like a jerk and have the same excuses. I've had enough, really. Even my gym teacher laugh at me when I sit out, they pretend they're talking about another person but I know they're talking about me.
I'm sick and tired of going inside the school door, thinking "If I was like them, would my life be happier?". I'm different, I'm shy, yet the nerve of the ******** people to ask why. I have supportive friends, but it's just heard, it's what I'm feeling inside me.
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Member Since: 8/22/2011
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Originally posted by Bea.
Actually the biggest issue, in my opinion, is that schools are simply not hard enough of the bullys. When I got badly bullied at school my school suggested I leave for a while as they did not want to reprimand the bullies for fear it would affect their exam results. What an utter pile of ********. What about my exam results of the fact I was scared to go to school.
Schools turn a blind eye to it because they don't see it as their problem. Hate crimes, no matter if the person is 14 or 40, need to be reported and the police need to follow it up. People need to learn consequence at a young age.
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I absolutely agree that more needs to be done by teachers and administration, seeing that I've been through that through the entire duration of my middle school career. I even attempted suicide once, and all they had to offer me was some counseling. Not speaking to the people involved, not proper explusions, nothing that would change the way others acted towards people like me.
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Member Since: 12/21/2010
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Some of the comments in here are making me absolutely sick.
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Member Since: 3/12/2011
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So many of you were bullied. I don't know that many gay teens, except this ATRL cesspool. So I never really knew what gay kids had to go through.
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Member Since: 2/1/2010
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you go GaGa
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Member Since: 6/16/2010
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
Teachers hardly see the real bullying going on.
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Teachers have a better idea than you'd realize. They know the in's and outs of the rumor mill.
Some girls in my school faked an MSN conversation with me, printed it off and took it to the school. On this fake account I had threatened to kill myself apparently, they did this so that they wouldn't get in trouble and all the focus would be on me. I got unofficially suspended for my own good. So that is an issue too, people find ways to cover their asses.
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Member Since: 6/16/2010
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Originally posted by Lonƹ
So many of you were bullied. I don't know that many gay teens, except this ATRL cesspool. So I never really knew what gay kids had to go through.
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There are many reasons for bullying, I was bullied for different reasons but bullying hurts no matter what. The gay teen bullying seems to be one of the worst and leads to the most suicides, but all bullying is serious. More needs to be done period. Kids are just so cruel and they know the difference between right and wrong...there really is no excuse.
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Member Since: 6/25/2010
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Guys, this ain't about
"Oh, I'm not supporting this because she's not my fave" or "she's fake, doing it for attention".
Keep in mind all the processes she went through for the appeal of DADT, for over years those people were non-stop rallying and screaming for justice and to be honest, when she and other people got into it, boom, changes and debates were progressing about the topic.
This is all for the children of our future, not who's ******** on our faves.
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Member Since: 10/10/2009
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Originally posted by MrPeanut
It is not hard to believe that she cried after hearing about it and seeing his tweet about how much she meant to him.
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Exactly.... I can't even lie, my eyes began to water reading his story from a complete outsiders perspective. Can't begin to imagine if it was me who managed to get them this far in life, if I was their escape from a hellish reality? Crazy.
Any rationale, thinking, feeling, breathing human being would be effected emotionally by this situation and their proximity to it.
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Member Since: 6/16/2010
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Originally posted by Belle
I absolutely agree that more needs to be done by teachers and administration, seeing that I've been through that through the entire duration of my middle school career. I even attempted suicide once, and all they had to offer me was some counseling. Not speaking to the people involved, not proper explusions, nothing that would change the way others acted towards people like me.
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The school would rather protect the numerous bullies than the one being tormented because having 1 person leave or having to deal with 1 person rather than say 5 or 6 is easier and consumes less time, they have less parents to deal with...less bullying associated with the school. It's all selfish. The school comes before the student when the students are what makes the school.
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Member Since: 11/24/2009
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Originally posted by Orsay
As a Gaga stan, I agree.
I'm so sick of all this anti-bullying ****.
Don't get me wrong, bullying isn't okay, but it's becoming too much. There are so many bigger problems in this world.
And it's like, smart people (like Gaga) know that if they mutter ANYTHING to do with "anti-bullying" everyone is going to praise them, it's like an easy cheap way to be liked. And the way Gaga worded that....idk, it sounded so fake.
But I guess nonetheless...
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I agree that it's gotten excessive. It's ALWAYS happened. It's not a new phenomenon. It's just something the media has decided to latch on to right now.
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
Do you guys really, REALLY belive in that?
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I'm fine with this question as long as you also question HER sincerity and whether, like most of what she says in interviews, "close to my heart" is just the token, obvious thing to say in this situation: http://twitter.com/#!/britneyspears/...92363166482432
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Member Since: 7/9/2010
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Jamey's story will be on NBC Nightly News after the commercial break.
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Member Since: 3/18/2008
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Originally posted by MrPeanut
It is not hard to believe that she cried after hearing about it and seeing his tweet about how much she meant to him.
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Yes, i'm sure she spent the past days reflecting, crying, and yelling. Especially at the NY Giants game.
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Member Since: 4/3/2010
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Lady gaga just moved up a spot... now she is one of my favs.. i love her so much...like forreal.. like i really really know how she feel.. it just aint right.. and it just make me wanna cry..
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Member Since: 6/25/2010
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Originally posted by m-m-m-monster
Some of the comments in here are making me absolutely sick.
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Because some of these shitheads think this is about sales, sometimes ATRL needs to stop thinking of their faves and take some time off to create a change. We're all too focused on sales and hits when music's only agenda is to bring people all together for a constant change.
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Member Since: 12/21/2010
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
Yes, i'm sure she spent the past days reflecting, crying, and yelling. Especially at the NY Giants game.
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She didn't KNOW then. Hun, you know I love you, but you're being absolutely RIDICULOUS right now.
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Member Since: 8/22/2011
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The way people say she's doing this just for attention is ****ing ridiculous.
**** you.
Stop pulling that **** every time a celebrity stands up for a cause that they believe in. I don't care who it is; every little bit of support and action helps, especially in a situation as horrible as this one. There is no reason that these self-hating gays and jaded straights should be questioning or denying the helping hand of somebody with such influence. Take it and run with it, for ****'s sake; maybe something can finally be accomplished instead of more suicides happening while a bunch of angry pop fans sit apathetically in front of their computers.
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