This is what I was talking about the other day: bullied for not being sufficiently "masculine"

[bluestateguy]

A sixth grader was beat up by other boys because he wanted to be a cheerleader, and apparently that's deemed "gay" by some people.

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As I noted on a widely ignored thread the other day, I knew many boys in school who were bullied for not being sufficiently Alpha Maleish and because other boys thought they were gay, even when they were not.

[Ishoutandscream2]

1. Sick of this shit

And Focus on the Family attacks groups who want to stop bullying in schools. How Christlike of them...

[RKP5637]

3. Yeah, christian family values.

[hlthe2b]

2. Hmmm... I have even heard that some male cheerleaders...

grow up to be President of the US... (whether we like the example or not, it still applies).

[laconicsax]

6. That one didn't grow up. n/t

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[Hepburn]

4. I don't get this...

...being a cheerleader for a guy is now "bad," but it was OK for Bush to do this instead of volunteering to served in VN? Talk about a RW selective value system.

GMAFB...!

[TexasObserver]

5. recommend

[One_Life_To_Give]

8. The more things change,

the more they stay the same.

No different When/Where I grew up. Showing any signs a being a "Sissy" (read as less than Alpha Male) would single one out as a target. Be it poor performance in athletics or taking interest in something considered feminine. You learned what characteristics to emphasize/take up in public and which to hide/repress.

[bbdad]

9. Bluestateguy, I first posted this reply at your "widely ignored" thread.

And I mean within the last hour. Please forgive me for copying and pasting it to this thread. I want to contribute to this particular thread while it is still active.

I can't believe how stupid these kids are. Haven't they ever heard of Brian Sims or Esera Tuaolo? Sims never hid his homosexuality when he played college football. His teammates supported him because he was an asset to the team. Tuaolo was a professional player who once participated in a Super Bowl game. He came out of the closet shortly after he retired from the NFL. There are other players who won't come out of the closet for obvious reasons. Gay men have participated in rough contact sports, just as they have participated in just about every other realm of human endeavor. Yet even today there are psychologists who claim that any boy who doesn't like sports should be suspected of having homosexual tendencies.

I get sick and tired of this "alpha male" routine, which says that "alpha males" are superior to all other guys. How many "alpha males" were involved in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s? How many "alpha males" participated in civil rights marches in the Deep South during the early 1960s (which was not exactly the safest political activism) before the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act were passed? Since machismo denigrates empathy and compassion as supposedly being feminine (and therefore undesirable) traits, I wouldn't expect that many "alpha males" supported civil rights for racial minorities before it became politically expedient to claim to be color-blind. One of the greatest heroes of World War II was the courageous Swedish humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews, only to fall victim to Stalinism. According to his half-sister, Wallenberg "detested competitive team sports." So, where did we ever get the idea that boys who have no interest in sports are sissies and wimps? As I've seen in my own experience over the years, wimps -- that is, moral cowards -- come in all sizes and shapes.

[Imagevision]

10. Bush was a cheerleader. Oh,That's right he had that dude visit him at the WH.