Driekan said:
I think there is a matter of bigger picture here...
The issue here isn't about bullying. The issue is about a society where a woman showing a part of her body is seen as demeaning enough that they may consider suicide.
I'm not sure you can call that a "bigger picture". People have known that for years. And this isn't "a society where a woman showing a part of her body is seen as demeaning enough that they may consider". It's just a society that includes a mentally unstable teenage girl who made a shitload of bad decisions, was bullied for it, and killed herself when no-one noticed her plight or bothered to help her.
Driekan said:
I haven't seen men cutting themselves over a picture of their dicks being posted online.
It's probably because it's not reported as often and, forgive me for sounding sexist, most teenage boys, even ones as young as 12, wouldn't be duped into showing their barely pubescent cock to some dude online (and yeah, I
am assuming it's mostly dudes that would try and trick innocent kids into exposing themselves online, because it
is mostly dudes). There isn't as much pressure from the media for "sexual validation" as there is for girls.
To go off on a somewhat unrelated tangent, does that whole "laughing it off" thing actually work? Because when I got bullied by my so-called "friends", I sometimes just tried to participate in the joke at my expense, in the hope that they'd just get bored and walk away, but if anything, I think it just encouraged them. They didn't stop; they just kept on laughing
at me, since my attempt at laughing
with them was fake and clearly didn't fool them. So, eventually, I just broke off contact with them.
