Quote Originally Posted by thir View Post
Could not find what MRA stand for, exactly.
Men's Rights Activist.
Basically a group of people (not just men, surprisingly) who feel that allowing women equal rights somehow means their own rights are being trampled upon. In essence, those people who protested in Steubenville when a couple of HS football players were found guilty of rape because they drugged a girl into unconsciousness and dragged her around to several parties, raping her multiple times. They had no empathy for the girl, but were outraged that these two young men might have their futures destroyed over some slut. Real assholes, in other words.

But these are teenagers, not grown ups. A very sensitive period.
I don't know about that. I was a teenager once (yeah, long ago, but still...) and I don't remember it being that sensitive. When someone tried to bully me I fought back, as TheDeSade said, away from the school.

It sounds like schools are very soft on them, or do not know how to deal with it, maybe laws have not caught up.
Schools are soft on them because any real punishments are protested by parents, usually through lawyers. Consequently they DON'T know how to deal with it. What needs to be done, perhaps, is to start charging the parents with violations, with large fines and possibly jail time. As I said, most bullies learn that they are practically invulnerable because their parents will keep them from being punished.

In cases of suicide, they are guilty of manslaughter or conspiracy to harm or something like that.
Good luck trying to prove that. Unless you have emails, texts or videos of the bully actually urging the victim to kill himself I don't see how you can definitively prove that the bullying led to the suicide.

But most of all it should be discussed openly, and people who persecute others online should be outed like that cowards they are.
This seems to be the real answer. I've noticed that several instances of bullying online have been stopped when the bully's personal information was revealed, along with transcripts of his bullying. They seem to be real happy to reveal their victim's personal data, but when you turn the tables they run for cover.