Comments on: Outing and Demonizing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:17:00 +0000

spot on, joe! spot! and it resonates and i relate!

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:17:00 +0000

*bump*

By: Stewart Kahn Lundy

Stewart Kahn Lundy — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Has Simone Weil been an influence here? She defines force as “that x which turns a person into a thing.” By that definition, we must always be pacifists.

By: Kevin Michaels

Kevin Michaels — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:59:00 +0000

Heart-breaking story – I cannot even imagine the pain you went through or the scars that were left, and in the same way that you cried when reading the story about the boy from Rutgers, my own heart broke over the torment, pain, and suffering you had to endure.
I look at what happened to Tyler as typical of the kind of behavior that has been going on unchecked for a long time in our society. Bullying – hating – the inability to accept others – “the tendency to denigrate, to mock, to deride, to disdain” others starts with a permissiveness that has been allowed to continue unfettered by adults (parents, teachers, educators, leaders), and won’t stop until each of us makes a concerted effort to change what’s happening around us. Like you, I plan to commit myself to being part of the solution – to finding the actions and words to make a difference, and hope more choose to do the same….to being one of those who will stand up and say, “This is wrong. We need to fix this.”

Thanks Joe. For having the courage to say something and for taking a stand.

Kevin Michaels

By: Micah Towery

Micah Towery — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:46:05 +0000

hm. authors as whole-culture psychoanalysts…interesting way of putting it, alfred. maybe this is the way to pitch literature to the science-obsessed academy?

By: Alfred Corn

Alfred Corn — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:29:00 +0000

Tyler Clementi’s story is horrible, and yours is truly awful, too. Those who can stand back and be objective realize that the social culture of the U.S. is deeply sick and destructive to nearly everyone. It’s all connected: bullying, raping and torturing, and invading sovereign nations. If only entire countries could be psychoanalyzed and then treated. Next best thing is our writers.