A new documentary about bullying, appropriated titled “Bully,” is currently
rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). However, the people behind the film, as well as thousands of others around the country, are calling for the rating to be changed to PG-13 in order to make it more accessible to young people.
The MPAA decided to give “Bully” the R mark primarily because of a scene where a bully describes what he will do to a victim using variations of the F-word. Use of the F-word more than once, or only once when used to describe sexual intercourse, almost always results in an automatic R rating.
Last month, The Weinstein Company, which created the film, petitioned to have the rating changed to
PG-13. TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein and Alex Libby, one of the bullied children in the film, argued that the R rating would prevent the film from reaching young audiences. In particular, the R rating prevents the documentary from being shown in schools. (The studio was planning on screening the film at various middle and high schools.) Additionally, many teens prefer to go to the movies with their friends instead of their parents, but you must be at least 17 years old to see an R-rated film without a parent or guardian.
The Weinstein Company lost their appeal. They were one vote short of the two-thirds required to overturn an MPAA rating. However, a ratings change doesn’t seem to be completely off the table. On Thursday, MPAA and Weinstein will be hosting an invitation only screening and panel event for Washington D.C. educators, to discuss “the challenges educators face in dealing with
bullying in the classroom.” However, it seems likely that the rating itself will also be a topic of discussion.
What do you think SodaHeads? “Bully” is currently rated R, but should it be changed to PG-13?
Does any in this country not know that alarmist, full-a-sh*t, bull-sh*t movies like ~BULLY~ or the new Palin movie, ~GAME CHANGE~ are just more left wing propoganda hit pieces .... ala Micheal Mooreish garbage?
I think most American do know it.
They have no goddamn agenda.
I have intervened in too many acts of bullying to be able to say that it is NOT an epidemic. Sure, it's not restricted to homosexual kids, but if you have been to a public school in the past 5 years (which I'm guessing you haven't) you would see that a MAJORITY of the bullying is directed towards the LGBT kids. Yours is the same mindset that dates back to Segregation supporters - "It's not my problem if they can't handle being pushed around a bit". Yes, as a responsible (I use that word lightly with you) adult, you SHOULD be concerned about kids kicking the sh*t out of "different" kids without reason.
Or maybe you did the same thing as a child, and thusly get a twisted enjoyment out of the whole deal.
And what was I picked on for? Being a virgin, getting the best grades, actually liking school and rules, and having standards. My friends were a mix of the school outcasts, some christians and some not. One of my friends was picked on because she had an extremely quirky personality and a rough home life - to the point where bullies even started a rumour that we were lesbians when she slept over once. I stood up for some of the other bullied kids at my school, but there were other kids who were bullied that I couldn't help at all. Fortunately, I actually made friends with a few of the kids who had bullied me in middle school when I defended them against others falsly accusing them (I tend to go into lawyer/judge mode when there is an altercation), which meant by senior year I had a bit more "quiet support" from the class, even though I still had some bullying from the popular kids. (The popular kids wanted to impeach me as valedictorian :P)
No one at my school was bullied for actually being gay, or goth, or hippie. Being a non-joc...
And what was I picked on for? Being a virgin, getting the best grades, actually liking school and rules, and having standards. My friends were a mix of the school outcasts, some christians and some not. One of my friends was picked on because she had an extremely quirky personality and a rough home life - to the point where bullies even started a rumour that we were lesbians when she slept over once. I stood up for some of the other bullied kids at my school, but there were other kids who were bullied that I couldn't help at all. Fortunately, I actually made friends with a few of the kids who had bullied me in middle school when I defended them against others falsly accusing them (I tend to go into lawyer/judge mode when there is an altercation), which meant by senior year I had a bit more "quiet support" from the class, even though I still had some bullying from the popular kids. (The popular kids wanted to impeach me as valedictorian :P)
No one at my school was bullied for actually being gay, or goth, or hippie. Being a non-jock that stood out too much was the worst crime, or getting As (if you weren't one of the elite student government crowd).
The "popular" kids at my school were a mix of nominal christians (christians because their parents made them go to church) and non-christians who played sports, partied, smoked, and possibly were into a lot of other things that I really tried not to know about. (I accidentally convinced a teacher once that a kid's pot was really beef jerky (I thoguht it was) which made me very popular for a day :P)
Yet, through all this, the only 'bullying' movies I have ever seen aren't on *bullying* itself, but advancing politically correct views and supressing free ideas.
To say "I disagree with that" or "that isn't healthy" isn't bullying. I had many discussions with my friends, I even fought a lot with a boy I liked in school. Among friends, you tell each other when you get involved with unhealthy things - and we did. I even trusted other students who were not my close friends to call me on things that I might not see in myself, and got some good advice.
To say "I disagree with your existence" IS bullying. To say "I hate you, you're not as valuable" is bullying. To say "You're stupid" is bullying, as opposed to saying "Have you considered this fact?"
And there is where many bullying movies do turn into propaganda. Rather than focus on what bullying is (tearing people down), they focus on how "everything and anything in the world is acceptable" and make bullying out to be "commenting/trying to change anything about someone else". Our friendships should make us grow, and hopefully make us change for the better!! *Grow* (built up) being the operative word.
Her clear position, by her very own words is that since you did not agree with the message or with the producer's obvious intent in making it, it's because you 'missed' the message of the film. How typical of Socialists to deduce along those lines.
The truth is, you could completely understand the message and simply not believe much of it. Like me. Further, she will state only bullies miss the message .... leaving the dutiful lefty sheep to deduce that if bullies are the only ones who miss the message and you missed the message, (can you hear their little lefty brains whirring and clicking?) then ipso facto ....... you must be a bully! And of course, bullies are to be shouted at.
Now .... is she really that stupid? No. She's proven to have at least completed her high school by virtue of other things I've seen her write and the level of her grammar, penmanship, deductive reasoning, etc So ... why would she try and slip such stupidity i...
Her clear position, by her very own words is that since you did not agree with the message or with the producer's obvious intent in making it, it's because you 'missed' the message of the film. How typical of Socialists to deduce along those lines.
The truth is, you could completely understand the message and simply not believe much of it. Like me. Further, she will state only bullies miss the message .... leaving the dutiful lefty sheep to deduce that if bullies are the only ones who miss the message and you missed the message, (can you hear their little lefty brains whirring and clicking?) then ipso facto ....... you must be a bully! And of course, bullies are to be shouted at.
Now .... is she really that stupid? No. She's proven to have at least completed her high school by virtue of other things I've seen her write and the level of her grammar, penmanship, deductive reasoning, etc So ... why would she try and slip such stupidity into a page and present it as reasonable?
It's the 'progressive' way in America. It's the progressive way to shut down the debate by attempting to demonize dissent. It's an age old communist/socialist method and this little girl is doing nothing but carrying forward the tactics of her political ancestry.
Do me a favor and tap her on the shouder to have her ake a look here and to let her know I still enjoy spitting on her Marxist pen and paper.
Thanks, dude.
Its about school bullying.