Boston sets up anonymous bully hotline

Maybe if there had been one when you were in school, you would have received the appropriate help you needed to learn how to disagree with people respectfully instead of resulting to sexual slurs.

Also, if you hadn't been so busy bullying people when you were in school, you might have learned that there's no apostrophe involved in pluralizing a word.

I say that because kids were so much tougher "back in the day". You know, when all we had to worry about was the occasional punch in the stomach or kick in the nuts. These wimps today only have to worry about getting shot.

...let's see, in highschool i had the word "dyke" and the word "faggot" carved into my locker, i was followed home and threatened by a girl in school, i was reapeatedly called on the telephone by another male student who told me i was going to hell for being a lesbian and a slut and a sinner, the then later, as i left the high school radio station in the middle of the night, i was jumped from behind by a member of the football team who beat the crap out of me, leaving me with two black eyes and a cracked rib. he said i did it because i was a dyke and this was going to teach me to respect the power of men. and i didn't have a bully hotline. instead i got suspended for two days over this incident, for fighting on school grounds.

not that it matters, but i wasn't gay. rumors had started, and they had a life of their own, and they helped make my highschool years a living hell. it did "toughen my up" like you suggested, but it also left my depressed and suicidal while i grew a very thick skin.

a hotline doesn't hurt. it's a simple thing. but it can possibly do a lot of good.