Dual Standards

[davidgillon]

Seeing a lot of disabled people commenting on twitter about how everyone seems to be condemning Will Smith, but no one seems to be discussing Chris Rock using a world-wide bully-pulpit to punch down at a woman with an auto-immune disease. (And everyone else with a visible difference).

As a friend noted, that just an hour on from an actually disabled actor getting an Oscar for a film about disabled people.

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Re: cw: bullying

[davidgillon]

she and her friends had me surrounded after school and weren't letting me leave and were deliberately trying to get me to lose my temper

Yeah, that one I know intimately. And both the times I deliberately punched the ringleaders out it significantly reduced the amount of ongoing bullying I experienced. So difficult not to see it as an effective response. Not necessarily an optimum response, but if the school isn't handling it, then you go with what you've got.