Bullying happens everyday. It has evolved more and more every year. It started out on just walking to and from school, to text messages, and now with social media. It even has it’s own name “Cyberbullying”. teenagers are getting cyberbullied every day. If being bullied at school isn’t enough they’re also having it through their phones, emails, Facebook. To a teenager it feels like it’s never going to stop. Because cyberbullying can happen 24 hours, 7 days a week. It can happen day or not. Also, cyberbullying can happen anonymously. Someone can send a message or an image and the person who is getting bullied has no idea who it’s from. Bullying can also happen at school. verbal or physical bullying normally happens going to and from school. Even
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But, sometimes you cannot help being “different”. Someone can be different by being a different skin color, from a different country, or even are sexually attracted to the same gender, or both genders. One of the biggest reasons why someone gets bullied is because of sexual preference. According to No Bullying, 82% of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) youth have been bullied about their sexual orientation. When it comes to identity. No teenager needs to get put down for something they cannot control. Being a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender is not something to be made fun of about. We should be more than accepting them because of it. They need support just like all the rest of the people in the world …show more content…
It was about a thirteen year old boy who was gay. When he told his friends, they rejected him and started making fun of him. Because of that Trevor tried to commit suicide. Because this story was so powerful there was a non for profit organization called the Trevor Protect. Which is helping prevent suicide especially with LGBT youth. Anna Mueller said in her Article that “Youths who are bullied or harassed are more likely to report delinquent behaviors, depression, low self esteem, poor school performance, and higher levels of alcohol and drug use.”. She also stated that those who are bullied have higher odds of suicide. In the past year that have been numerous news stories about teenagers committing suicide because of bullying. Not even because they’re gay. Bullying has gotten out of hand. It might start out as a joke. But, it doesn’t end that way all the time. bullying is extremely serious. Bullying doesn’t happens to just LGBT teens either. It’s happening with straight teens too. But for possible different reasons. They could be “the band geek”, “the outcast”, even could have gotten a good grade on a test. People who bully others. Can do it with just anyone. If a girl brings in a sandwich for a lunch. Another person could make fun of her and say her family is so poor that she can only have a sandwich. Even though it might not be true that her family isn’t poor. It still could upset the girl. Which results
But, sometimes you cannot help being “different”. Someone can be different by being a different skin color, from a different country, or even are sexually attracted to the same gender, or both genders. One of the biggest reasons why someone gets bullied is because of sexual preference. According to No Bullying, 82% of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) youth have been bullied about their sexual orientation. When it comes to identity. No teenager needs to get put down for something they cannot control. Being a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender is not something to be made fun of about. We should be more than accepting them because of it. They need support just like all the rest of the people in the world …show more content…
It was about a thirteen year old boy who was gay. When he told his friends, they rejected him and started making fun of him. Because of that Trevor tried to commit suicide. Because this story was so powerful there was a non for profit organization called the Trevor Protect. Which is helping prevent suicide especially with LGBT youth. Anna Mueller said in her Article that “Youths who are bullied or harassed are more likely to report delinquent behaviors, depression, low self esteem, poor school performance, and higher levels of alcohol and drug use.”. She also stated that those who are bullied have higher odds of suicide. In the past year that have been numerous news stories about teenagers committing suicide because of bullying. Not even because they’re gay. Bullying has gotten out of hand. It might start out as a joke. But, it doesn’t end that way all the time. bullying is extremely serious. Bullying doesn’t happens to just LGBT teens either. It’s happening with straight teens too. But for possible different reasons. They could be “the band geek”, “the outcast”, even could have gotten a good grade on a test. People who bully others. Can do it with just anyone. If a girl brings in a sandwich for a lunch. Another person could make fun of her and say her family is so poor that she can only have a sandwich. Even though it might not be true that her family isn’t poor. It still could upset the girl. Which results