In the past two months, I have gotten to hear about two horrible cases of brony bullying. First was Michael Morones, an eleven-year-old brony, tried to hang himself after being bullied for being a brony. For the longest time it was thought that Michael wasn't going to make it, but the latest reports are he's awake, breathing on his own and going through extensive therapy. His prognosis is a lot better than we had all thought it was going to be, but he could still suffer permanent brain damage. All because he felt so horrible about himself because of a show he liked; because some teenage ass hats want to be giant douche bags and call some kid gay for liking a show "made for little girls." The worst thing, the kids who tormented him passed the breaking point wont get any sort of punishment.
So now we have a new case of brony bullying that is also taking place in NC. Grayson Bruce, an awesome nine year old brony, has been victimized not only by the bullies in school but by the school as well. All he did was take his super awesome Dashie backpack to school and he got crap for it and was beaten up. What does the school do? He tells him "Don't bring your backpack to school anymore. It's a trigger for bullying." Not what you expected, right? Apparently him being beaten up was a distraction to the class and if he hadn't brought some with MLP on it, he wouldn't have gotten beaten up. Well, what a horrible person he is! <----insert sarcasm font here. Again, the bullies have yet to be punished, but the victim is apparently free game.
At the end, these boys and so many others are getting shit for being who they want to be and liking something they want to like. I didn't know that bullying the victim further was the way to solve the problem. Maybe we should all just be like everyone else and be completely boring and then no one will have anything to complain about, right? <----more sarcasm.
If you'd like to support Michael, please visit this website. http://www.michaelmorones.org/
Love for Grayson can be given here. https://www.facebook.com/SupportForGrayson
If you want to share your brony bullying story, I'd be happy to listen. I think the more attention brought to this, the better things can become for us. Stand strong, bronies. They have hate, but friendship is magic.
Sad fact of the matter is that the school SYSTEMS don't care. Even if there was some in the schools trying to do something about this, it'd get bogged down in red tape. I've been there and done that myself. No matter what though you should keep your head high, proudly do what you enjoy, and spitin the eye of anyone who wants to give you shit for being youself.
ReplyDeleteI can't get over what the school said. Not surprised, but still, not cool. What happened to freedom of expression???
ReplyDeleteThat is so sad :-:
ReplyDeleteBrony hate is the worst. I know an 11yo boy who is a brony (his stepmom works with Katy) and we've both had to plead his case to his parents because they're freaking out with worry over him being bullied at school for it. They think it would be better for him to not like it at all than possibly get teased and beat up. Its just so incredibly sad.
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