Topic # 4: It Isn't OK For Any Reason

T.A.P. is for people who are tired of bullying and want to see an end to it. the purpose is to let people know that bullying is not OK. 

Bullying is something that a lot of people don’t see as a big deal, but that is not true at all. The way that people are bullied either cyber, verbally, or physically, all hurt the person the same amount. This is another thing that I thin that we as a society should be past. I think that we know to much to let this sort of thing go on.

In the states bullying has been an issue of late because some people have been committing suicide because they are being bullied. This is something that I think is 100% preventable. No one should feel that the only option they have is to end their life. The fact that people are being bullied to the point of death is disgusting. I don’t understand how a person can feel good about the fact that their actions made another person take their own life. Some people say that those who commit suicide are weak but I don’t think that at all. I think the people bullying people to the point of them committing suicide are weak because they have problems and instead of dealing with them they take it out on others. It’s a fact that most people who bully others do it because they themselves have problems but instead of gain the courage to deal with them they just get mad and bully people.

A big thing that people are being bullied for is their sexuality. Gay teens in America have been reported on the news to have committed suicide because they were bullied. I don’t understand how somebody’s sexuality is a reason to make fun of them. It seems ridiculous that the gender of who you are attracted to is something that people find necessary to not only discuss but make fun of you for it as well. Just because someone is attracted to the same gender doesn’t make them any less of a person and doesn’t give anyone the means to make fun of them for it.

The people who are bullying others aren’t the only ones that are guilty. The people who stand by and witness others being bullied are as bad as the people who are doing the bullying. It isn’t hard if you see someone bullying someone else to step in and stand up for the person being bullied. The fact is that even if the bully is big than the person they are bullying they aren’t big then two or three people and if people are willing to stand up for each other bullying will be a thing of the past.

Bullying is something that is unacceptable no matter what the reason is. If people start standing up for each other and let bullies know that what they are doing is not ok then we will see a stop to bullying and a stop to people committing suicide because they are bullied.

 http://www.autostraddle.com/teenage-suicide-1235/

http://www.prevnet.ca/Bullying/BullyingStatistics/tabid/122/language/en-US/Default.aspx

http://www.bullying.org/