pink day?

|why did i not wear pink on pink day? it’s not because i don’t have any pink clothes, i have a perfectly fine pink t-shirt. no. in my many years of high school i have decided that pink day is just a day where bullies go all out wearing pink as if they are repenting their sin’s.

don’t get me wrong i know not everyone who wears pink is a bully, and some people actually mean it when they wear pink.  I’m just talking about the people who have bullied me.

Since grade three i have been bullied, i was teased, i had my lunch stolen. i was never physically beaten up it was always more of a mental/verbal type thing. so i changed school. i eventually changed country.

still i was bullied. might i add it got considerably worse when i came to Canada, i was introduced to a new word. faggot. grade seven was a hard year. i finally got to the high school and i thought it would be better because of pink day. i thought there was no bullying because of all the people who wore pink. boy was i wrong.

i have tried to repress many of my memories of being bully but one always comes back to haunt me.

it was grade eight gym class, we were playing basket ball. i was sitting on the bench when a bunch of guys, there was about six of them came up to me. it was nearly the end of class, and that net thing was pulled across the gym. the teachers were on the other side. these boys came up to me and surrounded me, my back was against the wall. they shoved their crotches in my face and told me to suck their lollipops. then they kept tormenting me until we were told to get changed. there has been many of these types of incidents but the one thing that struck me the most is that…

These guys were the ones who dressed the most flamboyantly on pink day. they wore their sister’s pink tank tops and pyjama pants and pink cowboy hats. it made me sick. it still does.

i honestly think it is wrong to bully someone then go to school on pink day and pretend it never happened.

something is definitely wrong in this equation, i think all this anti bullying campaigning is wonderful. but it doesn't work. instead of trying to stop the bullying i think we need to be more supportive to the victims.

Bullying will never end. it is everywhere. and it always will be.