Rutgers Student Suicide

MushaboomBlue
Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:29:15 +0000

I don’t mind the LGBT community using the incident to teach about tolerance and acceptance of those in the community; learning to treat those in the LGBT with respect and not making a person feel like a joke or guilty because of their orientation because it could lead to events such as self harming or suicide. Ravi did the webcam thing basically as a “hahaha, my roommate is screwing another man” thing. What is so funny about two men engaging in an intimate encounter?

But I’m just irked that they are using him as the poster child for gay teens who have suffered physical and verbal abuse because of this incident. As far as I know and many of us know based on news reports, there were no accounts of physical or verbal abuse involved. Emotional abuse? Yes, because by invading his privacy for jokes, they basically humiliated him.

But most people seem to be linking the webcam incident to the suicide and not so much to any possible underlying incidents that Tyler may have endured in the past. So anyone reading that line in the article would assume that Tyler committed suicide because he was beaten up and endured homophobic remarks from the students. =