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In reply to the discussion: Rest in peace Amanda. Bullied Teen Commits Suicide After Posting Last-Ditch Cry for Help on YouTube [View all]Catherina
(35,568 posts)21. Your answers are very... polite
        but I can't deal with them. Apologies to you and to everyone else but I very much regret posting this here. I can't deal with this kind of boys will be boys, here's a lesson about reality, attitude. 
I hope this doesn't happen to your daughter or a future daughter of yours. If it ever does, I'll be there to defend and support her instead of saying what a stupid twit she was.
But for now, next thing, I'll send a postcard to the kids in Pakistan, telling them stay indoors all day because we're too fucking complicit to get anything changed. All of it for the mighty dick that can't control itself. 
When girls go through puberty, they start experimenting with their sexual appeal. 
and our sons?  innocent lambs right? 
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                        Rest in peace Amanda.  Bullied Teen Commits Suicide After Posting Last-Ditch Cry for Help on YouTube [View all]
							Catherina
							Oct 2012
							OP
                        
        
        The Internet has Cons as well as Pros. It amplifies schoolyard stuff exponentially
        johnlucas
        Oct 2012
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        It'll stop a few. But people always think things like this won't happen to them...until it does
        johnlucas
        Oct 2012
        #5
      
        
        Doesn't make it right but it's going to happen if you expose yourself on the internet
        johnlucas
        Oct 2012
        #20
      
        
        I don't condone the 'boys will be boys' mindset but people will exploit you on the internet
        johnlucas
        Oct 2012
        #23
      
        
        And we as a society have the choice to make life more difficult for the stalker
        Gormy Cuss
        Oct 2012
        #22
      
        
        It's possible to hunt down and identify individual stalkers within national borders
        Gormy Cuss
        Oct 2012
        #34
      
        
        I don't think that the fear of making the internet less free is a valid argument against privacy law
        Gormy Cuss
        Oct 2012
        #49
      
        
        I don't think Obama will do anything about it, nor do I expect Congress to act.
        Gormy Cuss
        Oct 2012
        #60
      
        
        "No matter how you put it Masculine is designed to attract Feminine & Feminine is designed to
        Zorra
        Oct 2012
        #50
      
        
        John? Please, consider that you are a man, making repeated, assertive, absolute statements to a
        Zorra
        Oct 2012
        #52
      
        
        I touch on the control of female sexaulity & homophobia in that thread I made for LadyHawkAZ
        johnlucas
        Oct 2012
        #59
      
        
        In wake of Amanda Todd suicide, House of Commons to debate anti-bullying bill
        Catherina
        Oct 2012
        #16
      
        
        Amanda Todd still a target of vile online abuse - on FB page set up in memory of teen 'found hanged
        Catherina
        Oct 2012
        #17
      
        
        This is how people are on the internet. That's why I talked about preventive techniques
        johnlucas
        Oct 2012
        #25
      
        
        One alleged tormentor was in court yesterday on charges of sexually interfering with another minor
        Catherina
        Oct 2012
        #42