AnimeJune's Obsessions
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Anonymous asked: Yeah, I sorta cringed at the teachers' scene too, if only because I knew the reaction it'd get. Still, your 2 cents points out a trend in thought that disturbs me a little: the idea that taking care of a bully is just slapping him/her with punishment and that's that, because (s)he's a bad person and doesn't need anything more. I see shades of that in the seeming attitude that it's OK to protect some people from violence and not others because they "deserve it." Like I said, a tad disturbing.
Yes. It is in no way up to the victims to feel responsible or care about bullies, but IT IS up to educators to do that. They are responsible for the mental and physical well-being of ALL STUDENTS. While they are responsible for protecting those being bullied (and the Glee teachers screwed that one up, hardcore), they are also responsible for recognizing that bullying often indicates a deeper problem as well, and deal with bullies in that way, before it deepens into an adult problem.
But at the same time, I understand the fandom’s anger at the narrative context that the teachers who FAILED to help the victim went to such lengths to help the bully, even if it came AFTER Kurt was already gone and they couldn’t have done anything further for him.
