Re: columbine
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:11:16 +1000
I should have added too that perhaps the real problem at the very heart of
all this is one that is at the centre of `The Catcher in the Rye', too. And
that is: why, in this day and age, can't people tell others that they are
hurting? My area has a high rate of teen suicide; a fair amount of these
are boys who have discovered they are gay and believed that no one would
accept them. Why are young males still being told they are weak or
effeminate if they show their emotions? Why must they be released in one
devastating and destructive act as seems to be happening more and more? I
shudder to think what would happen if every boy or girl who had been teased
by their classmate had a gun. It's so terrible that it has to take a
tragedy like this for young people to learn what support and togetherness
is all about.
Camille
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Jeremy Green wrote:
> i propose that poverty is not the problem. the economy is doing
relatively
> well, therefore people have time to worry about how others perceive them
and
> therefore will kill people who mock them in school. if more people had
to
> worry about making ends meat, this would not be a problem.
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 06:23:00PM +0200, Julia Haldemann wrote:
> >
> > > It's strange how
> > > we seem to l,live in differents world...I don't know maybe somebody
> feels like
> > > expaining me...
> >
> > Julia, I'm afraid we *do* live in different worlds, and I fear that
> > there is no easy explanation for the madness that has a firm grip
> > on this country, sometimes.
> >
> > Whether it's the violence or the poverty, a rational answer eludes me.
> >
> > --tim o'connor