Problems of middle class white kids

I completely agree. I watched the movie because I wanted to see if it would present bullying as a problem worth attention. It failed laughably. Realistically, the main character was just sad about not being able to date the boy she wanted to. She had fair-weather friends and took to heart what was said by a girl who doesn't affect her life in any way. Though, the worst part of the whole thing was that the mother sheltered her entirely too much. When that failed, she sought legislation to protect her daughter's feelings and that was supposed to be seen as a reasonable solution.

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Yes, the problems of these high school kids pale in comparison to the poverty and profound suffering that exists in this world. But that should not minimize the pain she experienced. Adolescents are vulnerable and impressionable -- to have an entire school ridiculing you is not a simple annoyance, it's an attack on your identity. Embarrassment is one of the strongest emotions, and even if it's unlikely that an entire school would become involved in something like this (except, perhaps, in a really small town), the point is that whether it involves two or two hundred people, to her this was a devastating blow to an already insecure teenager. The isolation created by that sense of abandonment is enough to throw someone into a deep depression. And depression causes people to lose perspective. I doubt she was analyzing the consequences of her suicide attempt while crying her brain out.

Most young, healthy, white, middle class Americans haven't suffered. That's absolutely true. And most of them lose sight of the fact that compared to the rest of the world, the immature drama of high school life is petty and sickening. But that still doesn't mean that they're immune to the most basic of human emotions.

Depression is a medical illness that needs to be treated. It doesn't respond to "grow up" or "stop being so selfish." We don't tell diabetics that they should just make some more insulin. Just because medicine has not yet worked out the complexities of mental illness does not mean that it does not exist.

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Trust me, I'm a doctor.

Trying to kill yourself because of gossip, whether its on the internet or at school is a very selfish decision

I thought the girl in this was a spoiled little brat but the mother is also pretty bad.

Also I've had my Facebook account hacked many times and most people I knew in high school really didn't care when my status said something stupid because of it.

watching the movie i think the problem is not with the person being bullied, it is not that they are sensitive, that they are weak or that they get offended easily..

its the people around them who ACTUALLY BELIEVE in what they see online. seriously. i wonder if people ate stupid pills, had kids and made the younger generation dumb as a bag of hammers.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKAb-VOit0Q

Oh come on. Killing yourself is not selfish, it's the best thing a dumbass can do (and yes, there are 7 billion of them). No one cares about the lifeless family members and worthless friends who are left without you, it's called life and that's it. There's absolutely nothing wrong about committing a suicide, there's everything wrong about staying alive.

You don't need to be racist though.

I *beep* hate you.