Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
No, it's not only teenagers. Women, especially those espousing feminist views, are constant targets of MRA's especially.
Could not find what MRA stand for, exactly.

Some have stopped going online, but that's not a solution, that only lets the bullies win. As to why anyone would kill themselves over it, I haven't got a clue. Personally, I laugh at the bullies, and enjoy pointing out just how pathetic they really are. The angrier they get, the happier I feel.
But these are teenagers, not grown ups. A very sensitive period.

School administrators, counselors and teachers should spend more time disciplining the bullies and less time disciplining the victims. If a bully punches another kid, it's seldom reported so he goes unpunished. If the kid fights back, however, he's given equal punishment to the bully, at least, if not more. Parents of bullies are sometimes a large part of the problem, insisting to the authorities that there child couldn't POSSIBLE be a bully, and then bullying the administration themselves. It's learned behavior, to some extent.
It sounds like schools are very soft on them, or do not know how to deal with it, maybe laws have not caught up. Forbidding mobiles does not seem to be the answer, you have less control over what happens that way.

I personally think that bullies when identified should be expelled, and reported to the police. In cases of suicide, they are guilty of manslaughter or conspiracy to harm or something like that. Also the hanger-ons should be punished.

But most of all it should be discussed openly, and people who persecute others online should be outed like that cowards they are.


Actually, it's a part of the ingroup/outgroup psychology which has come about through evolution. Ingroup is good, outgroup is bad. When humans lived in small, scattered groups it had a significant survival value, since anyone not in the ingroup was a potential danger.[/QUOTE]