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Men's Rights Activist.
Basically a group of people (not just men, surprisingly) who feel that allowing women equal rights somehow means their own rights are being trampled upon. In essence, those people who protested in Steubenville when a couple of HS football players were found guilty of rape because they drugged a girl into unconsciousness and dragged her around to several parties, raping her multiple times. They had no empathy for the girl, but were outraged that these two young men might have their futures destroyed over some slut. Real assholes, in other words.
yes, I read about that, totally incomprehensible!

I don't know about that. I was a teenager once (yeah, long ago, but still...) and I don't remember it being that sensitive. When someone tried to bully me I fought back, as TheDeSade said, away from the school.
Not everybody can, it depends. How do you fight back a whole group? Your reactions often spur them on, idiots as they are.
I remember being that sensitive, and I hated school, as many people do. My only defense was to pretend I did not care.


Schools are soft on them because any real punishments are protested by parents, usually through lawyers. Consequently they DON'T know how to deal with it. What needs to be done, perhaps, is to start charging the parents with violations, with large fines and possibly jail time. As I said, most bullies learn that they are practically invulnerable because their parents will keep them from being punished.
But if that is the case, the parents would keep themselves equally invulnerable by hiding behind their lawyers, I fear.

Good luck trying to prove that. Unless you have emails, texts or videos of the bully actually urging the victim to kill himself I don't see how you can definitively prove that the bullying led to the suicide.
But the students know, and sometimes it really is found out, and the ring leader is suspended.

This seems to be the real answer. I've noticed that several instances of bullying online have been stopped when the bully's personal information was revealed, along with transcripts of his bullying. They seem to be real happy to reveal their victim's personal data, but when you turn the tables they run for cover.
A last resort, I think, seeing how you do the same as the perpetrators, but saying it is ok in a good cause..There is too much of that already.

Maybe the talking about these things in homes and at school AND online can turn the tide. Bottom line, the question I think is WHY they do it, and attack there. I do not mean the individual reasons, but the way they use the net.