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Koreadays
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 Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:25 am Post subject: |
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why do kids bully is the source to the problem and that's where it needs to be sorted. Education??? home education????
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Hugo85
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| El Exigente wrote: |
So many seriously believe there is no difference in suicide between gay and straight adolescents???  There is enormous documentation of this, e.g.: |
Many believe the original article you posted is crap.
It links a succession of 4 gay kids' suicide to an epidemic of gay suicides, as has been pointed out, 4 suicides is a minor fraction of all suicides and probably even of gay suicides. Furthermore, the article claims that because of these 4 suicides there is NOW an epidemic, which implies that there wasn't before. Is teen gays being bullied and having suicidal thoughts a new problem? No it isn't. I frankly believe that teen gays probably have more suicidal thoughts than others, but your original article is crap, end of story. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:08 am Post subject: |
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| Hugo85 wrote: |
| El Exigente wrote: |
| So many seriously believe there is no difference in suicide between gay and straight adolescents??? There is enormous documentation of this, e.g.: |
Many believe the original article you posted is crap.
It links a succession of 4 gay kids' suicide to an epidemic of gay suicides, as has been pointed out, 4 suicides is a minor fraction of all suicides and probably even of gay suicides. Furthermore, the article claims that because of these 4 suicides there is NOW an epidemic, which implies that there wasn't before. Is teen gays being bullied and having suicidal thoughts a new problem? No it isn't. I frankly believe that teen gays probably have more suicidal thoughts than others, but your original article is crap, end of story. |
The OP nowhere mentions the word "epidemic," although a fellow classmate of one suicider did notice about the bullying, �this year it got much worse.� So don't blame the OP; blame the thread titler. More accurate would have been:
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