School Bans Boy From Wearing ‘My Little Pony’ Backpack, Claims It’s A ‘Trigger For Bullying’ - Polidicks

this is fucking ridiculous... this encourages bullies that if they hate and ridicule and beat up someone long enough, eventually what they are doing will be banned they really need to fire everyone involved with making this decision. That's the only thing I can think of that will undo the damage they've done. These kids just got affirmation that the thing they were bullying was wrong, and they were right.

[QUOTE=Tasm;44270897]The saying "Boys will be boys" is partially correct when not taken out of context and used by retards to legitimize ridiculous behavior. Young children teasing and what not is completely normal, that being said it should also still be punished. They shouldn't have banned him from wearing his backpack, he would have eventually been teased for it by other kids and grown up out of it, like most boys. Keep in mind he's still really young so it's OKAY for him to like it. It's if he doesn't grow up and still likes it in his teenage years is where you've got a problem unfolding.[/QUOTE] I must disagree with you on your last point. People are free to like whatever they want. You think this way because of preconceived notions of how men should act. No one should be tied to societal expectations. It is when you try to take other people with you out of societal expectations that problems start to arise.

[QUOTE=FinalHunter;44270923]The school did the right thing. He's fucking 9, he doesn't have constitutional rights. If they have the power to take away freedom of speech from High School students then they have the right to tell a 9 year old to stop bringing a fucking bag to school that's causing a disruption. It's just the parents making a giant deal out of it.[/QUOTE] is this real life am I reading this right or do I need glasses

[QUOTE=Jmir 54;44270847]Meanwhile at my college, all the athletes and a few normal-looking students use child-themed backpacks with stuff like Power Ranger and Spongebob just for the hell of it.[/QUOTE] -snip- because it's funny!

[QUOTE=Tureis;44270914]Wearing a skirt like that is just asking to be raped. There's no way around it, it's just the way men are.[/QUOTE] Being openly gay is just asking to be bullied. Being Black is just asking to be shot, etc, etc. So where are all the feminists to defend this victim of gender roles?

you forget... middleschoolers are the most vile shortsighted horrible pieces of shit until they get to highschool, they will bully (in some cases to death) anything that is not like the other, also they will bully anyone who doesn't stand up for themselves. schools don't advocate fighting back, and mine certainly didn't with its zero-tollerance policy, but bloodying a bully's nose will make him reconsider

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;44270884]In 500 years when we build the Utopia project and achieve a cultural victory, yes. But right now it just isn't going to happen, our world is full of shitty standards on what boys and girls are "suppose" to like.[/QUOTE] Alright, and how do you propose we get to that "cultural victory" if whenever someone does something out of the norm we ban that for "disruption"? The status quo will never change if everyone accepts it.

[QUOTE=FinalHunter;44270923]The school did the right thing. He's fucking 9, he doesn't have constitutional rights. If they have the power to take away freedom of speech from High School students then they have the right to tell a 9 year old to stop bringing a fucking bag to school that's causing a disruption. It's just the parents making a giant deal out of it.[/QUOTE] This doesn't sound like someone applying their rationality to reach a conclusion, but a parrot repeating a confused idealist conceptions of the world. Do not internalize what people in authority try to indoctrinate you with, but realize your own class identity in this world, and what that means in enforcing your hegemony.

To the people who voted this funny, Why is this Funny? Feeling Subjugated in your own school is fucking awful and shakes your self esteem to a astronomic level. People go into Psychological Therapy for this kind of stuff. Nobody deserves the mental torture being thrust upon them. This is the kind of stuff that happens day in and day out and changes you in what are supposed to be the years that define who you are later in life. If you are as shallow as to define a human being on his article of clothing, it shows what kind of human being you are, laughing at it makes it even fucking worse. On the Other Hand.. I agree with the School hands down that what they did was Right. The Bag looks way too distracting and it does literally paint a target on his back. He is 9 Years Old,he has much still to learn about interacting with people and i just hope this doesn't affect him in a negative life in his later school years and that this hasn't given him too much ammunition for the bullies.

Wait, so the kid gets bullied for wearing an MLP backpack. Then the school prohibits kid from wearing MLP backpack. That'll teach those kids that bullying... works? Seriously the public school system in this country needs to get it's head out of it's ass.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;44270884]In 500 years when we build the Utopia project and achieve a cultural victory, yes.[/QUOTE] How many Turns? Please make it soon.

ok #1 like usual more people need to read the actual article because he was already being bullied for it #2 he could leave it at home or the school can actually do something about the fucking bullies

[QUOTE=KennyAwsum;44270984]To the people who voted this funny, Why is this Funny? Feeling Subjugated in your own school is fucking awful and shakes your self esteem to a astronomic level. People go into Psychological Therapy for this kind of stuff. Nobody deserves the mental torture being thrust upon them. This is the kind of stuff that happens day in and day out and changes you in what are supposed to be the years that define who you are later in life. If you are as shallow as to define a human being on his article of clothing, it shows what kind of human being you are, laughing at it makes it even fucking worse. On the Other Hand.. I agree with the School hands down that what they did was Right. The Bag looks way too distracting and it does literally paint a target on his back. He is 9 Years Old,he has much still to learn about interacting with people and i just hope this doesn't affect him in a negative life in his later school years and that this hasn't given him too much ammunition for the bullies.[/QUOTE] I find it humorous and pathetic that schools tend to talk to the victim and tell him what he should/shouldn't do rather than doing something about bullying itself.

yes because punishing the victim is the way to go when something like this happens

[QUOTE=Sally;44270835]If he's 9 then stopping it now is probably a good thing.[/QUOTE] You're missing the point. People shouldn't be bullied because of what they like, that's just dumb. MLP is aimed at children, yes specifically girls, but boys like it too. Why is there such a problem with this? It's people like you [URL=http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?id=9418200]that make people like this want to do what they do.[/URL] The kid shouldn't be punished for wearing the MLP bag, the bullies should be punished for what they do. Otherwise, as has already been said in this thread, they will do it to more and more people because they know that harassing someone about something will get it banned.

[QUOTE=Sableye;44270979]you forget... middleschoolers are the most vile shortsighted horrible pieces of shit until they get to highschool, they will bully (in some cases to death) anything that is not like the other, also they will bully anyone who doesn't stand up for themselves. schools don't advocate fighting back, and mine certainly didn't with its zero-tollerance policy, but bloodying a bully's nose will make him reconsider[/QUOTE] Fuck, I got in more fights in one year of American middle school than I did for the rest of my schooling, both in the UK and US.

I don't blame his school banning him from wearing My Little Pony backpack, because it makes him less then a man for wearing My Little Pony backpack anyway, but doesn't mean that I support him getting bullied TBH.

[QUOTE=Tureis;44270914]Wearing a skirt like that is just asking to be raped. There's no way around it, it's just the way men are.[/QUOTE] That's cool, you go ahead and do that, but they're not the same thing and I'd really appreciate it if you would stop essentially putting words in my mouth.

While yes the school played it safe by banning the backpack to prevent any ruckus about it, that does nothing to stop the status-quo that currently dominates elementary schools. Schools should teach kids to not give a shit if someone else enjoys something they don't, rather than just try to mitigate any possible bad situations.

[QUOTE=varg666;44271052]I don't blame his school banning him from wearing My Little Pony backpack, because it makes him less then a man anyway, but doesn't mean that I support him getting bullied TBH.[/QUOTE] Doing something despite knowing that it won't get you popular is pretty manly tbh. I couldn't do something like this.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;44270974]Being openly gay is just asking to be bullied. Being Black is just asking to be shot, etc, etc. So where are all the feminists to defend this victim of gender roles?[/QUOTE] Its sad that this happened. He should be able to wear the MLP backpack if he wants to. It really does suck that they are placing the blame on him.

[QUOTE=FinalHunter;44270923]The school did the right thing. He's fucking 9, he doesn't have constitutional rights. If they have the power to take away freedom of speech from High School students then they have the right to tell a 9 year old to stop bringing a fucking bag to school that's causing a disruption. It's just the parents making a giant deal out of it.[/QUOTE] The more you post the more I'm convinced you're a fascist.

[QUOTE=ADT;44270934]Probably because Power Rangers & Spongebob are more accepted franchises among normal individuals. MLP is more your typical girly thing.[/QUOTE] But Spongebob is now an intelligence draining waste of television air time. And I don't know squat about Power Rangers except it's a bit ridiculous in the States.

Imagine if a girl was bullied for liking boys cartoons.

Yeah I don't like mlp and yeah that kid is a boy but fuck he's 9. No matter how much I hate the mlp fandom, you have to be blind if you can't admit the school handled this shittily

[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;44271100]The more you post the more I'm convinced you're a fascist.[/QUOTE] I think being angry that poor people in India are able to cheap medicine is a pretty good sign.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;44271121]Imagine if a girl was bullied for liking boys cartoons.[/QUOTE] it's rarer but it still happens all too much.

This just further proves that public schools would rather prevent short term conflicts than actually tackle the long term problem at it's source.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;44271121]Imagine if a girl was bullied for liking boys cartoons.[/QUOTE] It wouldn't be a good thing. What exactly is your point?

[QUOTE=Valnar;44271173]It wouldn't be a good thing. What exactly is your point?[/QUOTE] The reaction would be much different.