“If you have something to say to me, tell it to my face,” Kurt’s character in Glee once told his homophobic bully Dave Karovsky. Kurt gets slushied in the face instead.
Bullying, I can say, is not prevalent here in the
But bullying can very well transcend physical bullying. A mean girl can spread rumors about her target of bullying through word of mouth. Worse, she can post rumors through websites encouraging school gossip through cyberbullying.
This is the subject of the article Keyboard Cowards as featured in the March 2009 issue of Reader’s Digest.[1] In juicycampus.com, students get to post gossips and other inappropriate stories against schoolmates as posts are guaranteed 100% anonymous through “IP cloaking”.
The website has already moved to www.collegeacb.com. On the welcome page, there is a list of schools and universities from which the visitor can choose from to post. All the schools included are universities in the
I typed in the name of one famous university and found that there is a board about it. I scanned through the topics and found subjects entitled “Niggers” or “Name the ugliest girl here?”. I did not read on.
Not that bullies deserve any respect, but being the traditional big bully is more honorable than being a coward who hides behind the computer. Sila ay mga duwag, na humihiram lamang ng tapang.
I have not found any website catering to schools and universities in the
I think that the filing of an Anti-Bullying Bill[2] was for good measure. I read the bill, and it was fairly straightforward. It seeks to punish all types of harassment, intimidation and bullying in the school context. I recommend that it explicitly include cyberbullying for it is easier to bully others through the Internet because of a fair chance to get away with it because of anonymity. I hope no Filipino version of the website emerges. But if one does, I hope the government will not think twice in punishing these cowardly lowlifes.
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