I keep seeing articles like this one, about Amanda Todd's suicide, pop up on Facebook. They all state that she killed herself because of "slut shaming". This one suggests we "teach boys to respect girls and girls to respect themselves."

truthjusticeca · 2012-10-16T01:49:22+00:00

More boys are committing suicide and nobody is talking about it.

Boys are invisible.

cjanimal · 2012-10-16T02:47:47+00:00

I find it wierd since the majority of attacks against Amanda were from other girls. Furthemore the other example they give is of a girl posing as a boy to bully. It doesn't seem correct to say boys should respect girls but make no mention of girls respect other girls in that statement.

crazed404 · 2012-10-16T03:02:56+00:00

How about we all as human beings respect each either no matter of sex, race, religion etc.

2012-10-17T00:40:09+00:00

Wait... wait... I read about this the other day, and it was mostly other girls who were bullying her; how the fuck is teaching boys to respect bullying girls going to help anyone!?

Ted8367 · 2012-10-16T06:05:07+00:00

Meanwhile, boys are generally taught that there's no need to respect women

Simply wrong. Can you solve a problem by lying about it? Not likely.

Megan Meier, who committed suicide after being attacked on MySpace by a former friend posing as a boy

and

13-year-old Minnesotan Rachel Ehmke also took her own life after months of harassment. She had never even kissed a boy, but she was repeatedly called a "prostitute" by a group of girls

...but...

we don't teach boys to respect girls

ignoring the fact that it wasn't boys in those cases. This is lying, too.

Finally:

if we don't teach boys to respect girls and girls to respect themselves, there will continue to be girls who slip through the cracks.

She's sort of overlooking something here... about half of humanity and the majority of those who "slip through the cracks".

With such a blinkered, one-eyed view, this woman will do nothing to reduce any problems. She can only make them worse.

MRB2012 · 2012-10-16T13:03:14+00:00

Around 80% of those who commit suicide are male. Of course, suicide is really part of the patriarchy's plan to oppress women, and if you deny it you're a misogynist.

EpicJ · 2012-10-16T07:36:04+00:00

And I'm sure it had nothing to do with the stalking, sexual harassment or black mailing

married_woman_plus_k · 2012-10-16T09:41:23+00:00

Who cares?

2012-10-16T05:46:20+00:00

Its really hard to be a teen these days cause shows and magazines always shove "the perfect image" down your throat and if you aren't pencil thin your not beautiful. Amanda Todd was beautiful girl that really was in the wrong crowd.

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