After seeing this, I was immediately enraged. This picture is from a UK report by Essex County Council. It infers that students being targeted by hoomophobia are bringing it upon themselves by "not acting straight enough." Why do I keep coming across more and more news articles about corrupt teachers screwing over their students chances of getting any protection from bullying. The answer to not being bullied isn't to bottle yourself up and act like everybody else. It's to stand up and speak. When students are being told to style their hair differently, speak in a lower register, sit differently, dress differently, and even walk differently just so that they don't come off as gay to the other students, they're promoting the idea that being gay is wrong and that it's something that people should hide. People can go further than this and sometimes become completely desensitized when an actual tragedy takes place. For example, A teacher in Missouri at Joplin High school, named Jim Whitney, reponded to a student commiting suicide from homophobic bullying with the comment of, "Moral of the story: Don't be gay." When Whitney was asked, "How many more kids have to die before someone realizes that this is an actual issue?" again, the insensitive responce was, "11-13 ought to do it. Somewhere in that vicinity." I find it disgusting.
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