Parents Protest Lady Gaga Anti-Bullying Video: Understandable or Absurd?
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2012/03/01 21:00:00
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An anti-bullying video produced by David Lloyd George Elementary and Churchill Secondary in Vancouver, Canada is under fire from a civic group called Burnaby Parents' Voice. The video in question depicts groups of students from nine schools dancing to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" while wearing pink shirts with the word "acceptance" on them, meant to mimic the success of a recent anti-bullying flashmob. Burnaby Parents' Voice is concerned about the implications of the message, and the incorporation of Lady Gaga's music, in particular.
One Parents' Voice member said in a press release, "Will this project reduce bullying? Not likely. They claim this sends a 'positive social message' of acceptance of self and others. Not for overweight kids, anorexic kids, or those who don’t dance well. Not those who resist their school's promotion of Lady Gaga's 'sex sells' worldview." Last year, the group explain that it "questioned the legality and the educational purpose of posting students' images on the Internet, as well as the appropriateness of Lady Gaga as a learning resource in public schools." Are these concerns understandable -- or just plain absurd?
One Parents' Voice member said in a press release, "Will this project reduce bullying? Not likely. They claim this sends a 'positive social message' of acceptance of self and others. Not for overweight kids, anorexic kids, or those who don’t dance well. Not those who resist their school's promotion of Lady Gaga's 'sex sells' worldview." Last year, the group explain that it "questioned the legality and the educational purpose of posting students' images on the Internet, as well as the appropriateness of Lady Gaga as a learning resource in public schools." Are these concerns understandable -- or just plain absurd?
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+23If Lady Gaga stops one kid from packing a gun off to school or from contemplating suicide because of excessive bullying, then her campaign was a success. If the pink shirts cause positive or negative controversy, then I think its stil a win-win situation for the kids. Who really cares what the parents think? Their days of being bullied by classmates are behind them.
200 yrs ago, things that were 'normal and useful' to us at the time are completely redundant 2 us now.... hopefully bullying will no longer b needed 2 grow stronger... we can have a better way 2 teach kids to challenge themselves & they'll b so focused on progressing themselves & others that they wont have time to reflect poor character; like bullying...
Isn't it considered bullying with all this anti bullying stuff flying around. Look your gay. Fine I get it. Be gay. Go be happy. Be free! Also realize, I don't have to accept it. Be gay wherever you want just don't get in my face about it. If I call you a flaming queer, I am being literal.
It is attention seeking. I have never been forced into acceptance. I just don't at some point want to be forced to accept. I'll state my opinion, just as you are free to state yours. Now I will get off the "gay" portion.
Bullying is bullying. A lot of the bullying now is teasing, but people want to call it bullying because it makes more of an impactl! At one point in time, it helped kids get on the right track. If you were fat, people called you a fat kid. Then you stopped being fat. Being fat is not healthy. Telling some kid who is fat that they are perfect they way they are is right up there with child abuse. Ask an doctor if is good for a person to be obese..
No you have a very narrow idea. You cannot look at the bigger picture. You are stuck in your little hole of accept me for what I am. Fine be what you want to be. I do not have to accept you. I respect you for a human being and will pass on the minimal of respect that is required for that.
Glorifying bully does nothing to help the real issues that bullying places on a person. There are true cases of bullying but like anything in life people want to make teasing into bullying.
Self Respect is the first step to a bully free life.
BTW, teasing, bullying harrassment; It's all one and the same, it isn't right and people need to stop ignoring it and justifying it. I really don't see how "Judge people based on what they DO not what they are" is a bad thing. Aceptence doesn't mean that you have to kiss every minority's ass. It means that you don't base your judgment of people on superficial things.
Your second paragraph is my point. It isn't all and one the same. The glorified 24/7 media wants you to believe it and all the people with their hands out for my Uncles money does as well.
You are correct. We should have kids being rude and disrespectful. The thing is being rude and disrespectful is not bullying. It is something else. That is part of my point.
We are dumbing down bullying into some generalized category. Just like we did so called "hate crimes:. It is rediculous. Don;t get me started on that one.
No.. that is not why so many kids are being "bullied." Some of these kids are being teased which is different than being bullied. But in our politically correct word we have to make it bullying. We tell our kids not to hurt anyone. When smacking a bully around will generally stop it. Unless the person is more than a bully but then you wouldn;t have a bully.
Bullies prey on those that have a sense of weakness. You won't remove the bully. So what does one do? Remove the weakness portion. 1+1 generally equals 2.
They have changed in 2 years? I just had a bullying case with my daughter and school. I immediately enrolled her in martial arts. Not for the physical but for the psychological ( I also -for lack of better words- trained her). I called the school and explained the situation. They dealt with it. All good for a week. Then it got worse.. she come home scared and crying. I called the school and gave them an earful. They hung up on me. I left work and showed up and demanded to be heard. Cops came., yes I made a scene. Cops left I had a talk with the Principle that my child comes here for an education not to be harassed. If it continues and you do nothing about I will tell my daughter that she will need to defend herself against these girls. I left but didn;t feel the issue was resolved. I went home and gave her 3 hours of defense training. Yeah she didn't like it. Every day we concentrated on that and heer school work suffered. My wife got an email from one of teachers. I responded saying that she was being bullied. I am teaching her to defend herself until such time the school can get it under control. Finally they expelled the other student. Fortunately it didn't get to the point of no return. ...
They have changed in 2 years? I just had a bullying case with my daughter and school. I immediately enrolled her in martial arts. Not for the physical but for the psychological ( I also -for lack of better words- trained her). I called the school and explained the situation. They dealt with it. All good for a week. Then it got worse.. she come home scared and crying. I called the school and gave them an earful. They hung up on me. I left work and showed up and demanded to be heard. Cops came., yes I made a scene. Cops left I had a talk with the Principle that my child comes here for an education not to be harassed. If it continues and you do nothing about I will tell my daughter that she will need to defend herself against these girls. I left but didn;t feel the issue was resolved. I went home and gave her 3 hours of defense training. Yeah she didn't like it. Every day we concentrated on that and heer school work suffered. My wife got an email from one of teachers. I responded saying that she was being bullied. I am teaching her to defend herself until such time the school can get it under control. Finally they expelled the other student. Fortunately it didn't get to the point of no return. I will be damned before I let someone close to me bullied.
No she hasn't been bullied again. The girl does give her looks but so far 2 years later all is good. This girl outweighs her by 100 pounds. What helped? We gave her self confidence.
Most kids wouldn't even go to their parents since they may be ashamed. If kids don't tell an adult then it's easy for the bullying to continue and for them to suffer a great deal more. This is when bullying can lead to suicidal thoughts and can really damage someone's life. Some cases of bullying are much more complicated than others.
And, what I'm saying is that it's not the victim who should be blamed for being too weak to stop it.
It starts with the parents. Unfortunately not all kids have parents. That is a different story though.
I can think of a bazillion other people to go to than Lady Gaga. To look up to a person that wears dildos on her shoes? Come on man. That ain't even close to acceptable.
They laugh at my '70s and '80s music. They are comming around to listen to some classic though.
While, no, I do not listen to her, I can respect her.
Either way we have people that will like what she does and we will have those that don't. That is a good thing.
simple. as. that.... sheeeshh, im hetero & even ***I*** know that.
edit: this is why im atheist... religion really distorted the view of the world
Homosexuality is atypical.
Sheeeesh.. you don't know much. But that is okay.