Not realistic


I think it's too bad that the main character is this perfect-looking girl with great hair, great body, etc. The reality is that the kids who get cyberbullied usually have something about them that makes them a target. I don't think that kids who watch this movie are going to be able to relate to this beautiful, socially competent girl.
Also, the filmmakers seem to think that calling someone a slut is the worst insult that can possibly happen to a teenager. Have they not seen Easy A? Or met any of this generation's teenagers? Being sexually active is not considered a "loser" quality.

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To be honest a lot of pretty and perfect girls get bullied.
They get bullied BEACAUSE THEY ARE pretty, beautiful, thin and perfect.
Yeah most of the time they get bullied by other girls who are or at least think that they are pretty and perfect. They do this purley because they are jealous and feel threatened.
It happens more than it should and is really wrong.

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Are you serious? That's an incredibly naive opinion.

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You're absolutely right. On top of just things that make them targets, it's often things they're self-conscious about already. Weight, appearance, anything. They're also bullied in real life oftentimes too.

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I've got to say... I was bullied in middle school/high school, but NEVER like this. However, I think it was just different. I graduated in '10. I have a younger cousin who just turned fourteen and sometimes I am absolutely FLOORED at what I see on her facebook and her boyfriends facebook and her friends facebooks. Seriously, totally different world. These kids try and act like they're so cool and funny and awesome and they call each other the worst names and threaten to beat each other up. It's absolutely insane how different one or two years makes in a generation.

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Don't listen to any of these guys. They probably are hooked on sexting or idrugs. Listen, yeah people talk crap on the internet but in reality its not like the whole student body is going to care. Like, the most any teenager will care about something is a few hours before the next big thing happens.

Cyber bullying is really as big of a deal as you decide to make it. My suggestion, focus on school, get good grades and get the hell out of high school. It will not and I will say it again will not matter what anyone said on your stats on April 19, 2009 years from now.

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I really hate movies like this because of responses like these. You can't fairly judge a movie based on something as misconstrued as being cyber bullied. It happens to people you'd least expect, cheer leaders, dancers, anyone can be bullied. I speak from experience. This movie was almost an exact picture of how I was bullied.

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I suppose I don't really understand why it's bad to be called a "slut" either. It could be that I've been raised rather differently and the fact that my parents have always been very open with me, but I see nothing wrong about someone being sexually active - of course, they were slandering her, and accusing a young girl of being a prostitute is not acceptable at all; But claiming that it is the worst you could call someone is slightly ridiculous.

I'm a Scandinavian teenager, and it could be due to my environment I'm in, the people I surround myself with or simply the culture, but sex is not considered such a big deal and certainly not something shameful. Most, according to statistics, lose their virginity at the age of sixteen - fifteen being the legal age of consent. Thankfully, we have biology from third grade, and we don't combine religious orientation with scientific facts, so we learn about methods used to prevent fertilization, abortion and how the human body functions. We have a relatively low rate of teenage pregnancies, and being fifteen, most people I know are sexually active (and safe). It's something that we often talk about rather openly, not necessarily with intimate details, but with nothing to be ashamed of. I don't know anybody who throws around words such as "whore" or "slut", but it could be that we are just more accepting of our sexuality.

But back to the thread, it sadly does not work like that. My best friend is incredibly beautiful, both appearance-wise and on the inside - I could be biased, but I've seen the way people look at her; While almost every guy is very interested, although sometimes intimidated, girls look furious. Especially if their boyfriend is there. She had been bullied for a long time, although it doesn't happen that often now. Apart from being abnormally attractive (of course, it really does depends on personal preferences, but she is objectively considered very beautiful, I suppose), often stopped by model agencies and of course, getting all the male attention, she's also very intelligent and well-spoken. I've known people who were morbidly obese, considered rather unattractive, unintelligent, obnoxious etc - they had it way easier than her. My friend has a very attractive girlfriend, tall, thin, high cheekbones, full lips, big blue eyes, naturally blond hair (almost white), could easily model for Chloé - she was being bullied incredibly hard and apparently tried to commit suicide once. When they were on a school trip, they cut her waist-long ponytail off while she slept, and the jealous classmates made her life a living hell. Poor girl.

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In fact, it's usually the "virgin" or "prude" who is ruthlessly mocked. I know I was mocked for NOT being a slut, and I graduated from high school ten years ago.

And if anybody thinks that American schools "combine" religion in our sex education must be completely deluded. That clearly is not the case - hysterical atheists made damn sure that absolutely NO reference to religion whatsoever occurs in most of our schools.

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Um how about everybody considers the possibility that various high schools can be different? My high school did NOT have a lot of bullying. Everyone had a niche where they fit in, and the so-called "loners" that you see in movies and on tv were rare. When we did have "loners", they chose to be that way. Also don't tell me that I only think that because my friends and I were shallow and lived in our own world; we would try to befriend anyone who looked like they needed it, and if they accepted than we were friends, and if they didn't we respected their wished. The point is, we never picked on people and we made sure no one was lonely unless they wanted to be.
I transferred to my district in 9th grade, so I didn't go to middle school with these people. I heard that in middle school the bullying was pretty bad, especialy on people of various races. Fortunately for everyone, they all matured in high school, and therefore the bullying becames a rare occurance.
The one true case of bullying I can think of happened in the grade below mine, to my best friend. She gave a guy a blowjob while she was dating someone else, and everyone did kind of make fun of her. Here's the thing; what she did was bad. She was drunk at the time, but still it was something she could have prevented. The ridicule was pretty bad, because her boyfriend was well-liked and people were angry about what she did to him; I heard about it from someone else before I heard it from her, and again she is my best friend. But it literally only lasted a day. Her boyfriend forgave her, her classmates moved on to new gossip, and she now jokes about the incident. She got over it.
I'm an extremely observant person, and I'm by no means what you would consider "popular". Honestly, I'm positive if my classmates had really been the bullying kind, I would have been one of their victims. But I wasn't. I got along with my class, whether we were friends or not, and I survived high school. I know bullying is a huge problem some places, I know that and I am completely against bullying. All I'm saying is that it varies from high school to high school, and that there are better ways to deal with it than spending every day crying, refusing to delete a bad post a hacker posted, and attempting suicide.

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The most bullied girls in my high school were the popular, beautiful girls with nothing actually wrong with them at all. People would send them hateful things on formspring anonymously about who they slept with and call them sluts for making out or flirting with boys.


I'm not sure about whenever you went to school, but being a "slut" was probably the worst thing anyone could be called in my high school. Even homosexuals were more accepted than sexually active people, more specifically, girls.

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