Certain Bitchers no more than “School Yard Bullies”

Wow, I had no idea that people (outside the regulars) actually go out of their way to read our comments, nor that those readers expect us to try and be funny or witty just for them. Haha.

Anyway, I have no idea what the OP is talking about specifically. But the question of whether or not petty online arguments are affecting youth is an interesting one. I’m wondering what generation the OP is coming from. Because as a person who grew up with computers as a child and the internet in my early teen years, I’m not inclined to believe that said petty online arguments and personal attacks have any significant effect on the quality of life for young readers belonging to the groups in question, specifically the LGBT community.

I submit that it doesn’t have a negative impact on our youth because anyone who has grown up around the time I did, learns at a very young age to not take anonymous comments on the internet seriously and to not let them have any impact on your offline life (or indeed, your online life). However, I’m interested in what negative impact you have seen that prompted you to write this bitch.

I’ll argue that asking anonymous posters to “please stop using derogatory terms in their arguments” is futile, not just here, but EVERYWHERE on the internet, and is therefore a waste of time.

That said, I’m wondering why a small message board squabble between two anonymous posters gets attention over all the blatantly bigoted and homophobic literature currently on the web written by non-anonymous supposedly respectable people; politicians, celebrities, writers etc. Not even just that but actual websites devoted to organizations whose public agenda is to deny the LGBT community their basic human rights. Which, of these two (The online anonymous squabbles vs. the online organized movement to deny human rights) has a more profound affect on our local LGBT youth?

I’d say the latter, I’d even say the first option doesn’t even register. If time is to be spent fighting bigotry and homophobia online let it be spent on the bigger targets that have actually succeeded in influencing quality of life of this specific minority. But I hope that my concerns are wrong and that you are actually an activist outside of this completely ineffectual bitch.

Because, honestly all you’re succeeding in doing by bitching about people who call each other bad names on a small and local forum… is to open yourself up to the very same type of argument you find so tiresome. And that gets no one anywhere.

I’ll end by asking you to please give our local youth more credit. They are more internet savvy than you think, and much less weak and vulnerable than you imagine.