I just came back from seeing, “The Bully Project” It’s a documentary about things kids have to deal with for a whole entire year. It made me cry, and at some parts laugh.
It made me cry about the boy being punched, stabbed with pencils, bullies putting their hands around his neck, and squeezing it. It made me cry, for them to call this poor boy, a fag and a loser. It made me cry, to be so very connected to those things, remembering that some of those things happened to me. It made me cry, when this kid, thought these guys where his friends, because he doesn’t know what real friends do. He doesn’t know, how it feels to connect to people, and to be supported.
But it made me laugh, when that same kid, that kid, and all those things happened to that one kid, was on a bus. And when the kid’s parents found out about the kid being bullied, they saw the principle, and the principle said, ‘I have been on every single bus route at this school, and all the kids are as good as gold.”
And it also made me laugh, that the same kid said later in the movie, “Girls are like candy. Sometimes you want a hershy’s, or a snickers. Sometimes you want a lollypop, it’s hard to decide”
But I cried so much more than I laughed. It’s a really sad movie. True, but sad. I recommend it to everyone, to have the inspiration to start something new. To help spread the awareness, and to stop having teachers say, “oh, well, boys will be boys so we can not do anything about it.”
That is a real quote from this documentary. So, you should google, “the bully project” and see if there’s any way you can see it, the showing they did tonight was free, and I’m guessing it will be at other places too.
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