9:14am December 14, 2013

“If we actually started calling bullying what it is and address it as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, fat phobia and classism it would actually give children a better way to deal with the very same power dynamics they will face as adults, while also giving adults more responsibility to challenge the intolerance that is rooted within our society overall.”

- Amanda Levitt at Fat Body Politics (October 5th, 2012)

I have a friend who didn’t realize she was actually poor as a kid, partly because she assumed ‘poor’ was a 'generic bullying insult’.  That’s how weird it gets.  Not that every time someone is called an insult word, they’re actually the object of that word, but still.

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