ABC Family's "Cyberbully" says gays deserve to be bullied.

[Kurska]

I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with ABC Family's original movie "Cyberbully". To give a short synopsis a WASP girl named Taylor gets involved in an online arguement over the facebook stand in clickster with another girl and this evolves into full scale bullying. This leads to Taylor trying to kill herself and her mother getting the state to pass legislation banning the insulting of minors in any form. Seems a bit draconian, but I'm always the one to try and take the bullied side of the arguement, at least I was with them until I saw this scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzTWGRtOgg

A gay student tries to empathize with Taylor, saying how he had been called things like "Fairy boy" and "2 gay 2 live" on his clickster account. Taylor, the character young bullied women are supposed to empathize with, says it isn't the same because Taylor is actually gay, where as she is not really a slut. I'd like to say that there is a later scene where Taylor realizes how wrong she is about this and comes around, but there isn't. I don't believe this character is ever seen in the movie again. No further comment is made on the plight of bullied GLBT's in this film. The last word on this seems to be "Gay kids deserve to be bullied, but don't tell them so or they will get mad".

This is disgusting for obvious reasons.The very idea that someone could make a movie about bullying, while playing down the plight of bullied GLBTs makes my head spin. I'm not sure what they were thinking when they wrote/filmed this, but I'm wondering what you have to say about this.

[Kurska]

1. Hmm, looks like there is a short minute or so scene later in the movie where she talks with him.

Musta missed it when I went to the bathroom while watching, I guess it at least makes the scene a little better.

My bad.

[joeybee12]

2. Well, I;m glad they got it right...was it well done, worth watching? knr

[Kurska]

3. Not really, it was incredibly campy and the main character had no common sense.

The only reason I know about it is because it has become a laughing stock on some websites. If anything it sets anti-bullying back.

[joeybee12]

4. Thanks...then i guess I won't try and watch it!!!