Thursday, March 14, 2013

How dare you: a story of victim blaming

How dare you.

There is this girl at school, lets call her Tracey, and she's new this year. She came a few months ago and INSTANTLY started shit. she was kicked out of her old because of her viciously beating other students and being generally unpleasant. However, she claims to have been bullied when she herself was in fact the bully.
Monday, she had a face to face confrontation with another girl, lets call her Jenny. I like Jenny. She's very nice.
Tuesday, Tracey's boyfriend, let's call him John, subtweets about Jenny. Then Tracey subtweets about Jenny. Jenny subtweets back. Then Tracey flips shit and starts a massive twitter bitch fight.
Wednesday, John and Tracey are constantly harassing Jenny via twitter, text, and to her face.
Thursday, Jenny gets suspended for two days.

Yes, you did read that correctly, JENNY, aka the victim, was suspended.

HOW. DARE. YOU.
HOW DARE YOU PUNISH THE VICTIM. HOW DARE YOU LET THE BULLIES OFF THE HOOK ON ONLY THE BASIS THAT THEY HAVE PRIVATE TWITTER ACCOUNTS.
BECAUSE THIS INNOCENT BULLYING VICTIM DID NOT CHECK A BOX.
BECAUSE THIS INNOCENT BULLYING VICTIM DEFENDED HERSELF.
SHE GETS SUSPENDED FOR TWO DAYS.
And the bullies get away again.
How fucking DARE you do this, administration. How the fuck am I suppose to believe this is a "safe learning environment" when you BLAME AND PUNISH THE VICTIM. how fucking DARE you expect everyone to be okay with this. How fucking DARE you think that victim blaming is appropriate. How. Fucking. DARE. you let those two bullies walk away with a smile and pat on the shoulder and suspend the victim.
On top of that, how DARE you suspend another girl, an innocent girl, simply because she said something that you interpreted to be in regards to the twitter fight.
Instead of punishing the bullies that harassed Jenny for a week, telling her that she is fat, disgusting, worthless. Calling her a bitch and a pathetic wannabe slut. Threatening her. You chose to suspend the VICTIM and her friend because they fought back and had open accounts. Even after reading the tweets and texts sent by the bullies. After screenshots were taken and printed out.
HOW DARE YOU.