Joe,

"You suggest that ".... Employing that logic, one assumes Armchair thinks if the young man was straight, he'd be wanting to have sex with his female classmates."

Well, yes. What's your point ?"

You know what my point is...that Armchair is assuming a gay person wishes to have sex with his classmates...because he's gay - and then using that "warped" assumption to say the kid is "asking for it" - is pure invention.

I'm calling out Armchair's ridiculous assertion...something I note that you failed to do.

(Excuse me if I ignore your silly T-Shirt humour...I prefer my wit a little more sophisticated:)

Hi Poirot,

I'm sorry about my silly humour, I should realise that OLO is a serious web-site. My apologies again.

As for your observation:

" .... that Armchair is assuming a gay person wishes to have sex with his classmates...because he's gay - and then using that "warped" assumption to say the kid is "asking for it" - is pure invention.

"I'm calling out Armchair's ridiculous assertion...something I note that you failed to do."

That's probably because I don't find it ridiculous. I'm certainly not saying it's inevitable, but it certainly happens, or at least did in my school days. And when you knocked those blokes back, then you got bullied. The curse of handsomeness, I suppose, but balanced by the adoration from some of the girls [I wish]. We all have our crosses to bear.

What ? Homosexuals being bullies ?! That such a thing could happen ! Yes, indeed, Poirot. It's a complicated world.

In fact, what makes you think that this current Trot 'initiative' in schools won't give homosexual kids, or kids who don't quite know what they are, or could be, or who or what they are attracted to, a sort of Dutch courage to bully other kids, with the Trot school principal watching their backs ?

I wonder what proportion of school principals are homosexual. Perhaps only the bullies.

Joe

G'day there CHRISGAFF1000...

Your solution sounds like a plan. I was fortunate, as I indicated in a previous thread, I played League (left prop) and cricket in the summer, therefore got generally left alone. Moreover I was a pretty big bloke (hence my spot in the forwards) and that helped. In third year, I got into a bit of push and shove, with this bloke who happened to be a bit smaller then me.

So off behind the 'bubbler shed' we both proceeded, accompanied as you were, by a small crowd of his and my supporters, and it was a case of 'wham bam thank you mamme', and I ended on my face sucking up gravel behind the bubbler shed - I was thoroughly vanquished and demeaned worse still, in front of my mates !

The next (decent) stink I was involved, was outside the Redfern RSL. My opponent, a large gentleman with a distinctive, darkish pigmentation, who was a well known regular with Jimmy SHARMAN and his troupe, and liked nothing more than following the latter around NSW, provided he wasn't a guest at 'HM Ranch - The Bay'.

His first couple shots put me down, where he proceeded to slip into me, with the 'Florsheim's'. My offsider from the truck who was currently occupied putting another slug in the back of the F150, had tried to drag him off me with little success - The result, I was off work on sick report (actually compo) for 7 days with the realization, you can rarely ever win a blue, while wearing 'blue'? Once 'designated' and in plain clothes, one learns the more subtle points of the 'Mexican Hat Dance'.

You see the gays think they can just go out there and change the world to suit them, and think the rest of us will just accept them as normal. Well, it simply wont happen and perhaps this kids misfortune has been brought about by the fact that gays are so flippant about the fact that they are gay. The old monkey see monkey do.

I have no doubt there is a link between gays coming-out and the increase in bullying. Although I would suggest the word bullying has taken on a new meaning in the past couple of decades, thanks in large to the PC brigade.

Every child encounters bullies during school, it is unavoidable and can teach tolerance to difference. Though bullies never learn to accept difference. I had to change school at seven from attending a Catholic school because I being protestant was excused from attending Mass once a month. I do not think it damaged me long term, though at the time it affected the first few weeks at the new school as I threatened children who conflicted with me, who later became my best friends.

The school could hardly be responsible for what happens with knives outside school. We have anti-bullying program in N.S.W. schools yet every week we have violent clashes in the streets of teenagers.

When I was about 6 there was this (to me than) big boy who used to hit and kick me time and time again, that I often was not attending school. One day I had enough. I went to him and kicked him in the but and quickly walked off. He came after me and started on me just that a teacher saw this. After that he became my best friend because he held he was strong but I was smart, having waited for the right opportunity that the teacher would see him but not what I had done.
sometimes outsmarting a bully may have the desired result to stop bullying.